This is the current version of the agenda for the Board meeting this Sunday. There may be changes before the meeting, so please check back later in the week. If you want to attend the meeting, please contact Barbara Toy at btoy@cox.net or 949/606-1825.
The recent trip to Iran to view the Venus Transit by Liam Kennedy will be the subject of several interviews on some local TV shows including KOCE RealOrange and COX Forum
UPDATE: Liam will be on a talk show Sunday July 25th 5:00pm broadcast via the IPN Satellite service worldwide.
by Russell Sipe Based on reports from Tom and Linda Caldwell, Dave Radosevich, Greg Pyros, and Barbara Toy.Photos by Dave Radosovich and John Kerns. HKR refers to the Hannum, Kerns, […]
A fire on the OCA Anza site burns tables and about seven acres of brush but spares buildings.
Tom Caldwell, an OCA member who has property near our Anza site, sent me this account of the fire that broke out near our site in the late afternoon of Saturday, June 5, 2004. Dave Radosevich and Jim Hannum tell me that the vegetation on part of our site burned, though no buildings were hurt. The neighboring property lost all of its vegetation, but fortunately they didn’t have any structures damaged, either.
First report from the US astronomy group currently in Iran for the Venus transit.
Dennis Mammana, internationally known astrophotographer and amateur astronomer, is the featured speaker at the May meeting of the Leisure World Astronomy Club on May 25, 2004 at 7:30 p.m. OCA members and other visitors are welcome. Here are the details…
The Babcock Memorial Symposium features talks by 9 astronomers who were important in the histories of Mt. Wilson and Las Campanas Observatories. Here are the details:
The Electronically Oriented Astronomers SIG (aka the EOA) is changing its regular meeting day from the 3rd Wednesday of the month to the 4th Monday of the month. The next meeting date is therefore July 26, 2004. The location and time will stay the same.
On 5/20/04 at 7:00p.m. at CalTech’s Beckman Auditorium, JPL’s Donald Yeomans talks about the scenario in the movie “Armageddon” and finding near-earth objects that could collide with earth. Here are the details.