San Diego IDA and OPTAS are jointly sponsoring a public forum on outside lighting/dark sky issues. That’s on 10/20/04 at 6:30 p.m. in Oceanside (click on the title for full details). If you can be there, this is a great event for anyone interested in improving our skies!
This is the proposed agenda for the meeting of the OCA Board of Trustees, which starts at 5:30 p.m. on Sunday, 9/26/04 (the pre-meeting potluck starts 1/2 hour before). My apologies for not posting it earlier; I’ve been having computer problems, so anyone who needs to contact me about the meeting should do it by phone rather than email.
Barbara Toy
OCA President
Just a reminder for all my fellow procrastinators – today (8/20) is the LAST DAY to register for AstroImage 2004 at the reduced fee ($49 instead of $65 – both are a real bargain, considering the program, but why not get the better bargain?).
The easiest way to be sure you’re within the deadline is to register on line and pay through PayPal. Or, if you’re going to be at the Astrophysics meeting tonight, you can give me your form and a check for the right amount (you have the option of ordering the dinner for $20 as well as the conference video for $15) and I’ll make sure it gets to Charlie. Or – if you trust the Post Office – you can mail it to Charlie at the club’s P.O. Box (1762, Costa Mesa, CA 92628).
Barbara Toy
OCA President
and AI 2004 Volunteer Coordinator
As a preview to September’s talk at the general meeting, here’s the Sundial Resource List that Larry McDavid had too few copies of at RTMC. These’ll give you a taste of the surprising complexity of one of our earliest types of clocks. The picture is of the Turtle Bay Sundial Bridge – a very modern sundial. You can learn more about it http://www.turtlebay.org/ .
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.
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…