OAS Executive Committee 

President- Dave Dunn, Ph. (801) 544-7705

Vice Pres- Lee Priest, Ph. (801) 479-5803

Secretary- Bob Tillotson, Ph. (801) 773-8106

Treasurer- Doug Say, (801) 731-7324

Vol. 31 Number 8 May 2002 http://physics.weber.edu/oas/oas.html

THE MAY MEETING

The regular monthly meeting of the Ogden Astronomical Society will be held at 7:30 p.m. this coming Thursday May 9, 2002 in the Ott Planetarium on the Weber State University campus.

John Sohl and the WSU Physics Department has provided a recent film for us to view entitled So Many Galaxies, So Little Time. The story follows a pair of scientists and a couple of graduate students through the process of determining where the galaxies are and the development of a three dimensional map of the universe. At the end, there is a 3D journey through of the universe.

MAY STAR PARTIES

Friday May 3 - OAS is planning a "Planetary Marathon" for Friday night the 3rd at Antelope Island. We are going to set up in the White Rock Bay trail head parking lot. The idea is that all 9 of the planets are visible for the next couple of weeks and we are going to try to see them all in one night. We hope that everyone will come out and enjoy the night. With a 3rd quarter moon we should be able to see a lot of galaxies before midnight. John Sullivan said that they will wave the $8.00 fee as we don't mind some of the campers coming over to look through the telescopes.

Tuesday May 14 - Weber County Library, 131 South 7400 East in Huntsville, UT. A scheduled slide show at 7:00 p.m. followed by the star party behind the library.

Friday May 17 - The school star party, which was postponed from last month, for the Sixth-Graders at Roy Elementary School is scheduled for the evening of Friday May 17th. Roy Elementary is located at 2888 West 5600 South in Roy. The students will be participating in a astronomy work shop at 6:30 p.m. and the star party will follow at dusk.

Saturday May 18 - The second in the series of Antelope Island events will be held on the 18th at White Rock Bay. Come one, come all.

MINUTES

OGDEN ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

April 11, 2002

The monthly meeting of the Ogden Astronomical Society was called to order by OAS president Dave Dunn at 7:30 p.m.

Upcoming star parties were the first order of business.

April 13 - This year's first Antelope Island event

April 19 - Roy Elementary School

April 20 - National Astronomy Day at the Ogden Nature Center

May 2 - Adams Elementary School in Layton

May 14 - Weber County Library in Huntsville

All star party events are subject to the weather and may be changed or postponed if poor conditions warrant.

An article about Project Starshine was featured in Sky and Telescope magazine. Some mirrors are available at this meeting and a hands-on grinding will be demonstrated after the meeting.

Lowell Lyon discussed the ALCON meeting set for this summer. OASers are encouraged to participate.

Brent Watson began the evening's program with a description of his detailed program for calculating the grinding of astronomical telescope mirrors.

Wayne Sumner gave a musical interlude on guitar.

Brent was followed by Dave and Ron demonstrating the testing methods of mirrors.

The meeting adjourned around 10:00 p.m.

Bob Tillotson, Secretary