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May 2016 Vol May 2016 Vol. 47, No. 5 The Warren Astronomical Society President: Diane Hall [email protected] First Vice President: Ralph DeCew [email protected] Founded: 1961 Second Vice President: Jeff MacLeod [email protected] Treasurer: Joe Tocco [email protected] P.O. BOX 1505 Secretary: Dennis David [email protected] WARREN, MICHIGAN 48090-1505 Publications: Dale Thieme [email protected] Outreach: Bob Trembley [email protected] http://www.warrenastro.org Entire Board [email protected] President’s Field of View the Perfect Club” put on by John Goss, current president of the Astronomical League. We wanted pointers on how to keep the W.A.S. in good run- ning shape when it comes to recruitment, volun- teering, and administration. Over the course of the workshop, it became appar- ent that the W.A.S. is such a vibrant club and fun place to be because we— you— already have many “best practices” in place and as part of our club A Love Letter traditions. To be certain, we’ve had major successful projects: renovating Stargate On April 9th of this year, I was able to attend the and making the Kalinowski-Khula Telescope its Northeast Astronomy Forum (NEAF), the tremen- central gem, updating the by-laws and re- dous astronomy and space expo put on by the attaining 501[c]3 status, transitioning the Rockland Astronomy Club in New York State. W.A.S.P. from print to digital. But the social ritual NEAF is a must-do for any amateur astronomer of snack time matters. Greeting potential new with the means to get there, a fabulous place to members with handouts matters (thank you, Jon browse telescopes and eyepieces you’ll never take Blum!). And yes, keeping up with the times does home and meet the people you’ve only known from indeed matter, and the W.A.S. leads other venera- astronomy magazines. Pluto was the white-hot ble clubs in that sense. We’ve used Skype at board topic this year, but as tempting as it sounded to meetings and archived our presentations for digi- attend the Clyde Tombaugh tribute talk by two of tal posterity on YouTube. Meetup, a social media his children, your former president Jonathan Kade site that doesn’t appear at first glance to be a good and I went to a workshop entitled “In Search for (Continued on page 3) 1 Society Meeting Times Discussion Group Meeting Astronomy presentations and lectures twice Grab some snacks, come on over, and talk each month at 7:30 PM: The WAS Discussion Group meetings take place at First Monday at Cranbrook Institute of Science. the home of Gary and Patty Gathen, from 8 -11 PM, Third Thursday at Macomb Community College on the fourth Thursday of the month, from January- - South Campus Building J (Library) October. Different dates are scheduled for November and December due to the holidays. The Gathens live at 21 Elm Park Blvd. in Pleasant Ridge—three Snack Volunteers blocks south of l-696, about half a block west of Schedule Woodward Ave. The agenda is generally centered around discussions May 2 ......... Cranbrook .......... Ralph DeCew of science and astronomy topics. Soft drinks are pro- May 19 ....... Macomb ............. Bob Berta vided, snacks are contributed by attendees. Any- June 6 ........ Cranbrook .......... Ken Bertin where from 4 to 16 members and guests typically June 16 ...... Macomb ............. Jeff MacLeod attend. Gary can be reached at (248) 543-5400, and July 11 ........ Cranbrook .......... TBD [email protected]. July 21 ........ Macomb ............. Bill Beers Saw a Fireball? Report it to the American Meteor Society! If you are unable to bring the snacks on your scheduled day, or if you need to reschedule, www.amsmeteors.org/ please email the board at members/fireball/ [email protected] as soon as you are able so that other arrangements can be report-a-fireball made. In This issue: President’s FOV ............................................... 1 Editor’s Thoughts ............................................ 3 Letters ............................................................. 4 Over the Moon ................................................. 5 Astronomical League ........................................ 6 Veen Observatory Report .................................. 7 History SIG ...................................................... 7 Presentations ................................................... 8 WAS Astrophotography .................................. 10 March Sky Chart ........................................... 11 Cranbrook Schedules ..................................... 12 Stargate Observatory ..................................... 13 Stargate Update ............................................. 14 Outreach report ............................................. 15 Tune in to Captains Marty Kunz & Treasurer’s Report ......................................... 16 Diane Hall for live radio Wednesday Meeting Minutes ............................................ 16 nights at 9:00 pm ET. Astronomical Events for May .......................... 17 GLAAC........................................................... 18 Vollbrecht Planetarium Schedule .................... 19 Space Place .................................................... 20 2 (Continued from page 1) club officers so that leadership isn’t concentrated in the hands of a few people who burn out and fit for an astronomy club in its sixth decade, has take the club with them. become a critical recruiting ground and communi- Part of what drove me to attend the seminar was cation tool. Because of our success with Meetup, the sense that, as good as things are for the Jonathan and I were able to offer social media ad- W.A.S. right now, we have to be constantly grow- vice to other clubs— including the AL itself! ing, constantly expanding our outlook, constantly All of these positives have brought about a distinct maintaining both our observatory and our institu- culture within the W.A.S. Most clubs reported a tional relationships, constantly searching for fu- low participation rate, with the percentage of the ture officers to safeguard the club’s future. But, as membership willing to serve as officers or volun- much work as we need to do in order to make the teers coming in at ten percent or worse. When next fifty-five years happen, I wanted to take a mo- Jonathan and I counted up the number of people ment to thank you all for making this august soci- who volunteer at Stargate, for scout groups and ety what it is. The strength of our club is, truly, in schools, at Astronomy Day and Kensington As- its members. tronomy at the Beach, the W.A.S. had the strong- You are, indeed, the finest around. est participation rate in the room. Our members give presentations to the W.A.S. and to other -Diane Hall clubs, we have a full slate of snack volunteers eve- President ry year, and we have steady turnover among our Turn the Page... I recently had the pleasure of accompanying our the members could contribute to the Paul Strong club president, Diane Hall to a luncheon at Ma- Scholarship fund individually, apart from their comb College's Center Campus to recognize new membership dues, so that it would be self sup- scholarship donors and recipients. While our club porting and become permanent. I encourage our is now part of the "old Guard" (we were among the members to contribute to this fund specifically. new ones last year), we still got to attend and had Remember, as a 501(c)(3) organization, all dona- a delightful time. tions are tax deductible. The Warren Astronomical Society committed to -Dale Thieme three years' funding for scholarships at $500 per The editor who needs to work on his selfie skills year. The Board at that time felt that this was a thank you to Macomb College for the use of their premises to hold meetings. The plan was also that Left: Dale Thieme and Diane Hall, right: scholarship recipients 3 warm May night during the second Eisenhower administration, my reaction was not: Wow! The Letters "Logo for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in the 21st Century Cluster". As a "dispositional" conservative per my god David Brooks, it is legally Reply to Scholar Dezelah in no uncertain insufficient to answer, "But . things are differ- terms. ent nowadays . .", the first defense of the new In re letter to April number of the W.A.S.P. by the age liberal. above-captioned. Q.E.D. Article I Article II "The old ways are the best". -- Mark John Chris- I concur that a sweep from Iota Cancri north to tensen the subject galaxy would be tough if one could not There is nothing "obfuscated" in my recent denun- even find the star. Observing from my mother's ciation of deep sky objects' names like "PAC driveway in Royal Oak on the evening of 31st of Man" (sic) and "UFO" (sic). As the late Justice March after a spectacular temporary clearing, no, Scalia would demand: What is the "plain mean- I could not see the it with naked eye. By the way, ing"? * Iota is probably a grossly under-observed double, for this observer the equivalent of storied Beta Moreover, the Scholar attempts to deflect the Cygni. question -- or in politics, diffusing the blame -- into left field, or is it right field? Naturally I am . too clever to stumble. Whether or not one should *Nice of Scalia, J. to be so concerned with take issue with X-Files, One Step Beyond, or "originalism" &c., but where in the Constitution the acid trips in End Times is off point. As they do we find First Amendment rights for a type say in court decisions: The matter is not before of business entity which did not remotely exist in us. 1791? Although some monikers for deep sky objects are G. M. ROSS, who 1) has never seen a U.F.O. or simply excess joie de vivre, minor infractions of had an out of body experience, and has no inten- reverence, I am getting my back up over comic tion of starting, and 2) will never knowingly ob- book culture bleeding into routine discourse. serve a deep sky wonder with a Gonzo nickname. (Citations omitted.) When walking into the Vati- can, one does not say, "Nice digs, this".
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