Inauguration of a new series of articles, with an account of the Kuhn and the night it burned out, some of our needs in the club observatory, and the OCA Dark Sky Group: what we’re about and some early activities.
A site to build a permanent pad at Anza has become available. The prior license holder never built on his site despite the best of intentions and has now decided to sell his site license to someone else.
The lecture we’ll be watching gets into the deep stuff and is called “Theories of Everything, and Hidden Dimensions.” Subjects include dark energy and the accelerating universe, theories of everything, and string theory. This is the second to last lecture of Dr. Filippenko’s most recent series of lectures.
In addition to the lecture, we’ll have Don Lynn’s update on what’s going on with Cassini, the Mars Rovers, and all the great things he’s printed from NASA and other sites, the usual discussion session following the lecture, and (of course!) socializing – rain or not, we’ll be there, and we hope you’ll join us!
For directions, please click on the title to this article.
Many thanks to the people who showed up tonight (Wed.) for the outreach – with a crowd of 300 people, we’d have been in serious trouble without your help!
We still need people to help out with the outreaches on Thursday and Friday. If you can come, please do – a number of the people who showed up on Wed. have conflicts on one or both of the other nights, so we really need you!
For all the details (including directions), please click on the title to this article.
Hope to see you there!
This is the amended version of the proposed agenda for the Board meeting on Sunday at 5:30 p.m., with the usual potluck at 5:00. This will be the first meeting of the 2005 Board. To see the amended agenda, please click on the title.
The meetings are open to any member who wants to attend, and any member who attends will be very welcome. Because of security concerns where we meet, please notify Barbara Toy (btoy@cox.net or 714/606-1825) or Bob Buchheim (rbuchheim@compuserve.com or 949/459-7622) if you want to attend.
If you haven’t voted yet it the OCA election for the 2005 Board, please either turn in your ballot at the General Meeting tonight (1/14) or mail it in today. Remember – if it’s postmarked after 11:59 p.m. on 1/14 (i.e. tonight) it won’t be counted!
Please click the title to see the candidate statements submitted so far.
The meeting starts at 7:30, in the classroom behind the Centennial Heritage Museum. The next lecture in the new series from Dr. Fillipenko is titled “The Stuff of the Cosmos.” From the program notes: “We live in a bizarre universe where the visible matter constitutes less than 1% of all that exists.” This lecture discusses the other 99% – what we have learned in recent years, and what we still don’t know.
Don Lynn has promised to bring more recent pictures from the space program, with explanations, and we’ll have our usual discussion period(s), and maybe even some Christmas treats!
For more information, please contact Chris Buchen at buchen@cox.net. For directions, please click on the title to this article.
Note: The class will take place even if it’s raining – but we’ll be inside the classroom instead of outside.
Did you get a telescope as a gift but can’t figure out how to set it up? Do you have a telescope lying around the house that you can’t get to work right? Bring your telescopes and your problems to our free “How to Use Your Telescope” class on Friday, 1/7/05 at 7:30 p.m. at the Centennial Heritage Museum in Santa Ana. For details, directions, and to download a flyer on the class with a map, please click on the title.
If you know how to use any type of telescope, please come as a volunteer to help out it’s always a lot of fun, and we volunteers learn a lot, too!
A collection of links presented at the December 10th OCA meeting.