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| January 03 | GM | John Combes presented his talk on "Cassini's Trip to Saturn" |
| January 15 | CIG | "Demarcation
Wars: Draining the Big Bang 'Swamp' and the 2nd
Copernicus Revolution." by Don Wilson Lecture #4 - Pie in the Sky |
| January 25 | TIG | This
month we looked at astronomy apps and how they can be
used to find objects in the night sky as well as how they can help plan an observing
session. Ron Olson explored the Messier Deep Sky Objects visible from the Lincoln Hills area. |
| February 07 | GM | Our
guest speaker this month was our very own "Moon
Goddess" Nina Mazzo. Nina will talked about the "Earth's Moon." She looked at the far side of the Moon. |
| February 19 | CIG | "Demarcation
Wars: Draining the Big Bang 'Swamp' and the 2nd
Copernicus Revolution." by Don Wilson Lecture #5 - What's the Matter U and Lecture #6 - Shell Game |
| February 22 | TIG | Star
Party was cancelled due
to weather. Instead Ron Yelton presented a program on the Nightfall Star Party held south of Palm Springs every year in the Fall. |
| March 07 | GM | Guest speaker Tim Unruh spoke about Meteoroids, Meteors and Meteorites. |
| March 19 | CIG | Unfortunately, Don was not available this month - so we cancelled this lecture for just this month. |
| March 22 | TIG | Star
Party at the Model Airplane Field cancelled. Ron Yelton talked about the Texas Star Party instead. |
| April 4 | GM | Bill
Weaver and Ron Yelton gave a joint presentation on
imaging. Bill Weaver "Easy and Simple Astro Imaging for Beginners". Ron Yelton "The Pitfalls of Making an Astro Image". Bill started off talking about how you can get great images with just an adapter, telescope and a cell phone. Ron expanded on this theme and tried to de-mystify some of the terms and things that we see in astrophotos along with some examples. |
| April 16 | CIG | "Demarcation
Wars: Draining the Big Bang 'Swamp' and the 2nd
Copernicus Revolution." by Don Wilson Lecture #7 - Bubble Balance - Structure As You Like It and Lecture #8 - Fountain of Youth - Anti-matter |
| April 19 | TIG | Due to a lack of telescopes we cancelled the Sports Pavilion star Party. |
| May 2 | GM | Carla
LaFave presented her first short LHAG talk on "The
Sun". Ron Yelton offered images that he himself has taken and some of the stories behind them. Both talks should be fun and full of interesting information. |
| May 21 | CIG | "Demarcation
Wars: Draining the Big Bang 'Swamp' and the 2nd
Copernicus Revolution." by Don Wilson Lecture #9 - Graviton Discovery - Really, Really Hugh Lecture #10 - A NEW Law of Gravity". |
| May 24 | TIG | Star
Party at Blue Canyon cancelled due to weather. |
| June 6 | GM | This
meeting was moved to the OC Ballroom at 6:45 PM. The Players have a show scheduled that night and we got bumped to Orchard Creek. John Combes gave an update on the Hubble Space Telescope. |
| June 18 | CIG | Don
Wilson concluded his lecture series with Lecture #11 - Unification |
| June 14 | TIG | Star
party at the AMOS field near the casino cancelled due
to weather. |
| July | Vacation. | |
| August 1 | GM | Prof. David Dunn gave a presentation for us at the Sierra College Planetarium at 7:00 PM. |
| August 16 | TIG | Star
Party at the Sports Pavilion. Sunset is about 7:45 PM. There were great views of Mars, Saturn, Jupiter (the Great Red Spot isnicely visible) as well as Venus and some Deep Sky Objects like the Ring Nebula and the dumbbell Nebula. |
| August 20 | CIG | New
lecture series begins - Radio Astronomy Lecture #1 "Radio Astronomy and the Invisible Universe" Lecture #2 "Thermal Radio Emissions: The Planets" |
| August 27 | TIG | The Telescope Interest Group will be provided telescopes for a Moonlight Walk sponsored by the Trail Enhancement Team. |
| September 5 | GM | John Collins gave a talk on New Horizon's trip to Pluto. |
| September 13 | TIG | Trip to Cameron Park |
| September 17 | CIG | Lecture Series - Radio Astronomy |
| October 3 | GM | Ex-resident Jim Kelley returned to give a talk on Black Holes. |
| October 11 | TIG | Star
Party at the Sports Pavilion at 6:30 PM. |
| October 15 | CIG | We
continued our new lecture series on Radio Astronomy
with: Lecture #3 "The Birth of Radio Astronomy" Lecture #4 "The Discovery of Interstellar Hydrogen" |
| November 7 | GM | Cindy
Van Buren talked about the Juno Mission to Jupiter and
Barbara Swerdlow gave her first "What's New in Astronomy" talk on "Uranus - The Stinky Planet". |
| November 8 | TIG | Star Party at the Sports Pavilion cancelled. |
| November 19 | CIG | Radio
Astronomy Lecture #5 "Radio Telescopes and How They Work" Lecture #6 "Mapping the Hydrogen Sky" |
| December 2 | Holiday Christmas Luncheon |