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Prime Focus (09-10) Highlights of the September Sky. - - - 1st - - - Last Quarter Moon Prime Focus Dusk: Venus, Spica, and Mars nearly form a straight A Publication of the Kalamazoo Astronomical Society line less than 5º long. - - - 4th — 5th - - - September 2010 Dusk: Mars is just 2º upper right of Spica, which is about 4º right of Venus. - - - 8th - - - ThisThis MonthsMonths KAS EventsEvents New Moon - - - 10th - - - Dusk: Mars is above the Observing Session: Saturday, September 4 @ 8:00 pm thin crescent Moon. Jupiter & Open Clusters - Kalamazoo Nature Center - - - 11th - - - Dusk: Venus is 6º right of General Meeting: Friday, September 10 @ 7:00 pm the Moon. Kalamazoo Area Math & Science Center - See Page 8 for Details - - - 13th - - - PM: Antares is 4º left of the Waxing Gibbous Moon. Kiwanis Star Party: Saturday, September 11 @ 8:00 pm - - - 15th - - - Kiwanis Youth Conservation Area - See Page 7 for Details First Quarter Moon thth th Observing Session: Saturday, September 18 @ 8:00 pm - - - 17 — 19 - - - PM: Jupiter and Uranus Moon, Jupiter, Uranus & Neptune- Kalamazoo Nature Center are just 0.8º apart. - - - 19thth - - - AM: Mercury at greatest western elongation (18º). InsideInside thethe Newsletter.Newsletter. .. .. - - - 21st - - - PM: Jupiter and Uranus are both at opposition Perseid Potluck Picnic Report............. p. 2 - - - 22nd - - - Board Meeting Minutes......................... p. 2 PM: Jupiter (and Uranus) are about 6º below the Night Sky Volunteer Program............. p. 3 Moon. Autumnal Equinox Jack Horkheimer..................................... p. 4 (11:09 pm EDT) NASA Space Place.................................. p. 5 - - - 23rd - - - Full Moon September Night Sky............................. p. 6 - - - 27th - - - PM: Pleiades are about 2º KAS Officers & Announcements........ p. 7 left of the Moon. General Meeting Preview..................... p. 8 - - - 30th - - - Last Quarter Moon www.kasonline.org Perseid Potluck Picnic Board Meeting Minutes The sixteenth annual Perseid Potluck Picnic was again held at The KAS Board met on August 8, 2010 at Sunnyside Church. the Kalamazoo Nature Center on Saturday, August 14th with a President Jack Price called the meeting to order at 5:10 pm. start time of 6:00 pm. Attendance for this year’s picnic was Board members in attendance were Richard Bell, Dick 34 members and guests. Gillespie, Jason Hanflik, Don Stilwell, and Roger Williams. In the absence of the Treasurer, the first order of business was Picnic day started out cloudy with scattered showers the report from the Robotic Telescope Committee. After throughout the area. KAS President Jack Price came prepared several attempts, Richard had not found an Arizona lawyer with his large canopy, but it wasn’t needed. Skies were willing to look over our proposed agreement with Mike Patton mostly cloudy at 6:00 pm. This ruled out solar observing, but for a reasonable cost, so the committee decided to submit the the Sun had no spots on display anyway. Temperatures were draft currently in hand. The Board spent considerable time in the mid-80’s. It wasn’t as humid as it has been this summer discussing the draft and possible additions or revisions. Dick (and no where near as hot and humid as the first Perseid suggested the addition of some standard language stating that Potluck Picnic in 1995). There were plenty of mosquitos, but the agreement had been signed in Michigan and was subject to several members came prepared to protect all in attendance. Michigan law. Carol Van Dien had also suggested consistency in referring to “The Pattons,” where currently the document Dinner was served shortly after 7:00 pm. This year special sometimes named only “Mr. Patton.” Most of the discussion thanks go to Don Stilwell for bringing his grill and doing all dealt with language to insure the protection of KAS assets in the cooking. The hamburgers were juicy and the hot dogs the event that circumstances should change in the future. A were pleasantly plump, so kudos to the chef! As usual, thanks number of changes in language were proposed before the to all the members document is approved by the Board. that brought the fantastic side dishes In a review of Old Business, the status of the purchase of Sky and deserts. & Telescope on DVD’s could not be answered in the absence of Rich Mather. It was presumed that he either had it in hand There was plenty of or would soon. Testing of the effectiveness of the search pre- and post-dinner function will be a first priority. Regarding a proposed KAS entertainment this calendar for a fund-raising project, Don had not done anything year. Daniel Flanagan as yet, but will now start gathering information on options and brought his radio costs. A proposal which had come to Jack over the internet controlled airplane and flew it around the Nature Center for organizational fund raising was generally regarded by the grounds. Mark Miller brought his croquet set. Those that Board as questionable. Jack will gather more information played along with Mark included Richard Bell, Joe Comiskey, cautiously, without creating any obligations until we Scotty Macfarlane, Ninah Miller, Don Stilwell, and Roger understand more about the scheme. Williams. They played two games and Joe won both of them. Luckily we didn’t gamble otherwise Joe would have been In the category of New Business, Richard had arranged for the accused of hustling members! Members that shall not be speaker at the September 10th meeting to be Dr. Heather named then played catch with Jean DeMott’s moon and Jacobson of MSU, speaking on “Our Dusty Universe.” For squishy balls. It started out harmlessly enough, but turned into November, Richard has planned a video titled “Eyes on the a game of who could hit the squishy ball in the air with the Skies” (details are on the website, as usual). moon ball. Many innocent bystanders were moon [ball] beamed! It gave a whole to new meaning to the expression In further business, Richard was still gathering information “when the moon hits your eye...!” about possible headline speakers for the KAS 75th anniversary. Neil deGrasse Tyson still reigns as the top choice, but the fee The skies cleared with time to spare for the Public Observing is about $25,000. Richard was waiting to hear from Steve Session, which kicked off at 8:30 pm. Unfortunately, most Squires of Mars rover fame for Astronomy Day 2011, but his members weren’t optimistic about the weather prospects. The fee is also reported to be in the low five figures. Some really only person to bring a telescope was Roger Williams. significant grants will be necessary to make this possible. Naturally, the 12” Schmidt-Cassegrain was up-and-running in Owl Observatory. Conditions were pretty good considering The next meeting was set for 5:00 pm on September 12th at how poorly things looked earlier in the day. Many deep sky Sunnyside. The meeting was adjourned at 6:50 pm. objects were tracked down and everyone bagged a few Perseid meteors. It was another great picnic for the history books! Respectfully submitted by Roger Williams Prime Focus Page 2 September 2010 NightNight SkySky VolunteerVolunteer ProgramProgram Beginner AstroVIP Observations from Badlands National Park by Bill Nigg The western region of the Dakotas is in one of my “nine blue circles” of dark sky areas drawn on my Rand McNally road atlas. So, how can I observe there? The Badlands National Park in South Dakota participates in the Night Sky Program and accepted my application as a “Volunteer In Parks” (VIP) for a July stint. I corresponded with Ranger Larry Smith and learned about the public telescope sessions planned (solar observing with a Coronado MaxScope 40 during the day and an amphitheater program at 9pm followed by telescope observing. They have 12” & 16” Dobsonians and an 11” Schmidt-Cassegrain Telescope. The official National Park Service Night Sky Program is aimed at light pollution awareness. See the supporting website. My summer observing conditions in Michigan only have 1-2 clear nights per week and 3 or more mosquitoes per square inch. I always have some light domes and it rarely gets Great vistas await you at Badlands National Park. darker than 5th magnitude. Should I escape? Now that I have a big motorhome and have recently retired from KVCC teaching: It looks like my destiny! Watching the weather skinny ruffles of multi-striped pinnacles with muddy washes during June in the Badlands region I saw several storm that exposes more 30+ million year old fossils often. The warning boxes parade through and Ranger Larry described local trees were only a few small cottonwoods that never the wind and 90+ degree conditions. But he said it was clear obstructed the horizon – not like the massive trees at more than 4 nights a week and very few mosquitoes. Michigan dark sites. The land is “bad” for farming with horse and wagon travel and was bypassed by the The actual results were great with wall to wall Milky Way Homesteaders but good for local Indian hunting, cattle, down to 6th magnitude. The geological pinnacles that are the fossils, bison, and astronomy. Badlands are called “walls”. The landscape is a combination of ancient ocean bottom and years of volcano ash. This has We were clouded out 3 of 18 program nights and the been greatly eroded by several evolving rivers out of the mosquitoes were wimps. I actually healed up from my many higher Black Hills region nearby. The remaining material Michigan bug bites. Popular objects were Saturn, Moon that is currently left are spread out in hundreds of huge craters, double stars, a few galaxies and many Milky Way objects. The hotter daytime sessions on the Sun allowed a few hundred viewers a direct hydrogen alpha look at prominences and sunspots each day.
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