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Desert Skies Tucson Amateur Astronomy Association Volume LVI, Number 12 December, 2010 Desert Skies Tucson Amateur Astronomy Association Volume LVI, Number 12 December, 2010 The James Webb Space Telescope Mark your Calendar! TAAA Holiday Party Constellation of the month TAAA Astronomy Complex Updates Saturday, December 11 Websites: Trips On The Internet Super -Skyway Desert Skies: December, 2010 2 Volume LVI, Number 12 Cover Photo: Clockwise from upper left: backplane, mirrors, fine guidance sensor, NIRcam. Images credit: http:// www.jwst.nasa.gov/images.html TAAA Web Page: http://www.tucsonastronomy.org TAAA Phone Number: (520) 792-6414 Office/Position Name Phone E-mail Address President Keith Schlottman 250-1560 [email protected] Vice President Bill Lofquist 297-6653 [email protected] Secretary Luke Scott 749-4867 [email protected] Treasurer Teresa Plymate 883-9113 [email protected] Member-at-Large John Croft [email protected] Member-at-Large John Kalas 620-6502 [email protected] Member-at-Large Michael Turner 743-3437 [email protected] Past President Ken Shaver 762-5094 [email protected] Chief Observer Dr. Mary Turner 743-3437 [email protected] AL Correspondent (ALCor) Paul Anderson 625-5035 [email protected] Community Event Scheduler Mark Meanings 826-2473 [email protected] Volunteer Coordinator Roger Schuelke 404-6724 [email protected] TIMPA Gate Card controller John Kalas 620-6502 [email protected] Chiricahua Astronomy Complex Dir. John Kalas 620-6502 [email protected] Newsletter Editor George Barber [email protected] Web Director Terri Lappin 977-1290 [email protected] Publicist Liz Kalas 620-6502 [email protected] Astro-Imaging SIG Steve Peterson 762-8211 [email protected] Astronomy Fundamentals SIG Robert Gilroy 743-0021 [email protected] Starry Messenger SIG Terri Lappin 977-1290 [email protected] Cosmology and Space Exploration SIG Al Anzaldua [email protected] Mae Smith 850-7137 Club Apparel Sales [email protected] Merlin Waits 888-4550 Equipment Loan Coordinator Al Dohner 297-7118 [email protected] Librarians Claude & Teresa Plymate 883-9113 [email protected] Grand Canyon Star Party Coordinator Jim O’Connor 546-2961 [email protected] General Information Luke Scott 749-4867 [email protected] Membership in the TAAA must be sent through the TAAA. Do not send money directly to the magazines. To change an individual subscription to the group rate, Annual Fees pay the subscription amount to the TAAA treasurer. 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The editor retains all submis- sions unless prior arrangements are made. Submissions should be sub- Your membership expires as indicated on your mailing label. mitted in Word compatible files via e-mail or on a recordable media.. All TAAA members may join the Tucson society of the Astronomical material copyright Tucson Amateur Astronomy Association or specific League (TAL) at the time they join or renew. author. No reproduction without permission, all rights reserved. We will not publish slanderous or libelous material! Send submissions to: Discounted Sky & Telescope or Astronomy magazine subscriptions George Barber are available to members and can be started or renewed at anytime. TAAA/Desert Skies Editor Rates are given above. Allow 3 months for processing. Subscriptions [email protected] Join our Email Lists on YahooGroups TAAA Forum: http://tinyurl.com/hwoau (general astronomy discussion, posting allowed, 75/month) TAAA Dark Site: http://tinyurl.com/3d8ts9 (discussion of dark site issues, posting allowed) Desert Skies is published monthly by the Tucson Amateur Astronomy Association, Post Office Box 41254, Tucson AZ 85717. Volume LVI, Number 12 3 Desert Skies: December, 2010 President’s Message It's hard to believe another year is almost over. at the next meeting. The Plymates have done a great Astronomically speaking, our home planet has returned to service to our club in creating this unique calendar. approximately the same position with respect to the Sun that it was a year ago. Our lives change with the passage I'd like to take a moment to thank the members who have of time, but fortunately we have some repeating patterns given their time and energy at school star parties in the to provide some stability. Amateur astronomers find past year. A few of these folks have gone far beyond the themselves connecting the seasons to the appearance of call of duty and helped at numerous star parties. There is certain celestial guideposts; thus when we think of the a real need for additional help, and the schools continue chill of winter, we also think of the Seven Sisters twinkling to ask for more, so I encourage everyone to volunteer for overhead and mighty Orion rising up in the East. We've at least one star party. A couple of hours of your time enjoyed many nights of clear skies in Tucson recently, so could forever change the life of a child who looks through hopefully you've had a chance to observe some of your your telescope! old winter friends as they return to the skies. One of the club's annual events is our holiday party. You Speaking of seasons, TAAA members will soon have a new definitely don't want to miss this year's party, which will tool available to keep track of the coming year. Thanks to once again be held at the home of Bill and Mary Lofquist. the creativity of Claude and Teresa Plymate, a custom- More information is elsewhere in this newsletter - I hope designed wall calendar showcasing TAAA activities, to see you there! Also, don't forget our current auction. member photos, and much more has been produced. The winning bidder will walk away with an outstanding This will likely sell out quickly so be sure to pick yours up telescope on an extremely high quality mount. Meeting Information and Calendar of Events TAAA MEETING DATE: Friday, Dec. 3, at the Steward Observatory Auditorium – Room N210 ASTRONOMY ESSENTIALS: 6:30 pm GENERAL MEETING: 7:30 pm Title: Space Rocks – Asteroids, Comets, and Meteorites Title: The James Webb Space Telescope and its NIRCam Speaker: Terri Lappin Speaker: Dr Don McCarthy, Steward Observatory Space Rocks - asteroids, comets, and meteorites - are The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will be NASA's often considered left-overs from the creation of our solar next large space telescope, to be launched in 2015. JWST system. Most asteroids are located between the orbits of is a large (6.5 meter) cryogenic telescope optimized for Mars and Jupiter. Comets are mostly found in the colder observing at infrared wavelengths. It will image the first reaches of our solar system, but can put on a spectacular generation of stars and galaxies that became self- show if they venture into the warm environs of our star. luminous early in the history of our Universe. It will also Meteorites, remnants of the solar system's formation, can probe the atmospheres of extra-solar planets and study be held in your hand! Space Rocks is also the name of the the formation of Solar Systems around other stars. latest outreach toolkit we've received from the Night Sky Historically, scientists from Steward Observatory led the Network. Terri will talk about asteroids, comets, and development of infrared astronomy beginning around meteorites and why they are important to the 1965 and are now leading the development of JWST's two understanding of our solar system. In doing this, she'll on-board
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