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194 9 Ce Le B Rating 65 Ye Ars O F Br Inging As Tr on Omy T O No Rth Te X 1949 Celebrating 65 Years of Bringing Astronomy to North Texas 2014 Contact information: Inside this issue: Info Officer (General Info) – [email protected]@fortworthastro.com Website Administrator – [email protected] Postal Address: Page Fort Worth Astronomical Society Welcome New Members 3 5801 Trail Lake Drive Fort Worth, TX 76133 Monthly Club Calendar 4 Web Site: http://www.fortworthastro.org 19-inch Scope Update 5 Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/3eutb22 Twitter: http://twitter.com/ftwastro Young Astronomer News 6 Yahoo! eGroup (members only): http://tinyurl.com/7qu5vkn Cloudy Night Library 7 Officers (2013-2014): President – Jim Murray, [email protected] AL Club of the Month 10 Vice President – Matt Reed, [email protected] Sec/Tres – Lewis Westerfield, [email protected] The Methuselah Star 11 Board Members: Constellation of the Month 14 2012-2014 Constellation Mythology 17 Phil Stage Bruce Cowles Monthly Celestial Events 18 2013-2015 Monthly All-Sky Chart 19 Bill Nichols Jim Craft Moon Calendar and Data 20 Cover Photo Planet Highlights 21 Composite photos courtesy Mike Jupiter Highlights 22 Jones et al, The 19-inch equatorial reflecting Meeting Minutes 23 telescope that the club has recently acquired. General Club Information 24 That’s A Fact 24 Observing Site Reminders: Be careful with fire, mind all local burn bans! November’s Full Moon 24 Dark Site Usage Requirements (ALL MEMBERS): FWAS Foto Files 25 Maintain Dark-Sky Etiquettehttp://tinyurl.com/75hjajy ( ) Turn out your headlights at the gate! Sign the logbook (in camo-painted storage shed. Inside the door on the left E di t or : -hand side) Log club equipment problems (please contact a FWAS board member to Shawn Kirchdorfer inform them of any problems) Put equipment back neatly when finished M ont hl y FWContributors: Last person out: Check all doors – secured, but NOT locked Matt McCullar Make sure nothing is left out M anny L oi s Jerry Keith The Fort Worth Astronomical Society (FWAS) was founded in 1949 and is a non-profit scientific educational organization incorporated in the state of Texas. This publication may be copied Ben Hudgens and distributed for free only. This publication cannot be uploaded or distributed into any me- dia unless it is in its original, full, unaltered, published form. All rights reserved by FWAS. AS PAGE 2 FORT WORTH ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY JUNE 2014 WELCOMEWELCOME NEWNEW MEMBERSMEMBERS NewNew STARSSTARS ININ THETHE FWASFWAS UNIVERSE!UNIVERSE! Raquel Anzaldua Spencer Reiling* Tom Castillon Steve Reiling Luis Guadalupe Dixie Rinker Harold Hargrave John Rinker Jaxon Huggins Julie Rinker Rocky Huggins Lawton Rinker Hayden Lang Joyce Varnes Janna Lang Kathy Walker John Lang Ami Thompson Debby Reiling Marguerite Thompson * Reese Reiling * = Young Astronomer The club's official mailing address has changed. This is different from the mailing address to pay NOTICE: membership dues, so be aware of the difference. The Fenton Ave. address that was listed on the website and in the newsletter WAS the official mailing address for the club up until this last meeting in May when it was asked to be changed by the individual who that address belongs to. The new official club mailing address is now the Trail Lake Drive address shown below. That is the mailing address that the club uses for all official business dealings with state and federal agencies. We have to have an actual address due to our corporate and non-profit statuses. It was decided at the last meeting to change it. The addresses on the website and in the newsletter have been changed. So forget the Fenton Ave address. It no longer is a valid club address. Official club mailing address: Fort Worth Astronomical Society c/o Matt J. McCullar 5801 Trail Lake Drive Fort Worth, TX 76133 JUNE 2014 FORT WORTH ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY PAGE 3 JuneJune 20142014 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Museum Star Party Moon/Mars Conjunction Born: (1940) Rene Au- 1.84° @ 16.9h berjonois, actor (Odo, Star Born: (1930) Pete Conrad, R U Trek Deep Space 9) astronaut FQ 2.44° @ 20.8h 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 23h11.5m Full moon (Declination– 19.028°) 1985—Russian space This is the southern- probe Vega 1 lands on most full moon of Venus the year. (calculated Born: (1981) Natalie Port- for the geocenter) man, (Queen Amidala, "Star Wars") FM 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 FWAS Young Monthly Astronomers Meeting Meeting Starts @ 8pm-10pm 1963—Valentina Tereshkova (USSR) is Officer & 1st woman in space, Board aboard Vostok 6 Elections Born: (1928) Martin Landau, !!!!TONIGHT!!!! Brooklyn New York, American LQ actor (Space 1999) 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Born: (1946) Ellison Onizuka, astronaut, (died in Challenger Born: (1925) June Lockhart, Space Shuttle explosion) NYC,LQ actor (Lost in Space) NM 29 30 See our full FWAS Event Calendar at: http://www.fortworthastro.com/meetings.html for the latest updates on what our club has scheduled PAGE 4 FORT WORTH ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY JUNE 2014 Our New 19-inch Telescope he 19-inch scope that we recently acquired was originally built by amateur astrono- mers in Fort Worth over 50 years ago as a Cassegrain telescope.. Then rebuilt about T years ago by members of the General Dynamics Astronomy club as a fast, Newtonian telescope. The same mount was used although it was updated at the time. Now it is our turn. A small group of the scope committee picked up the primary mirror last week and took it to John Dowell's shop for testing. John Dowell reported: Mike I have cleaned to optics and they look much better than expected. I looked at the mirror on the tester and it looks good. I did not 'run the numbers" but was look- ing for evidence that the mirror may have changed shape over the years. I did not see any indication of that. I will do an inspections after the mirror have been on the test stand awhile. I have also spoken with Mike Jones and Jim Craft and we concur that the optics are usable as they are. We recommend the optics be used as is for the short period the scope will be used at the Foundation. One of the reasons for doing this has to do with the way the coating is applied. The reflective part of the coating is very thin aluminum. I'm sure you have heard many times. The other part of the coating of silicon monoxide.Silicon monoxide is also soft but when exposed to oxygen will form quartz which is very hard. This process can take six months or more. The mirror coating should never be touched or cleaned for about a year to be on the safe side. If we re-coat the mirror now and use it at the foundation it will get very dirty before the process is complete. I'm not sure what effect that will have on the coating in the long run. The mirror can be re-coated The current condition of the scope. during the refurbish/relocation period. This would insure no damage to the coating from weather exposure. John Dowell We are planning to pick up the remainder of the scope, Saturday June 7th. At that time it will be taken to John Dowell's shop for some minor clean up and testing. Several club "work -days" will be announced, where any member who is interested will have a chance to help in the cleaning process. If you do not get a chance during this brief window, don't give up.. There will be a more extensive restoration process later in the year. After the scope is put into serviceable shape it will be installed a temporary location at the Thomsen's Foundation site. The Thomsen foundation has generously offered to pour us a large slab and let us test the scope there for the summer. In the meantime, a spot was picked out at Thomsen's site for a slap to be poured as a tem- porary site for the scope. Dr. Lisa Bellows jumped on the bobcat and leveled the spot as we stood there. Also, she has offered to have the forms laid and have the concrete poured. The main bolt that holds the scope is the one large, rear bolt. Phil Sage took a couple of plates that Lisa offered and is having a nut welded on each of them. These two plates and the 1" threaded rod will be placed in the forms before the concrete is poured. So now we have a chance to add to the history of this scope. Personally, I am looking for- ward to looking through it this summer. Matt Reed VP and Scope Addict. The telescope in better condition back in the 1980s at the Squaw Creek Observatory. JUNE 2014 FORT WORTH ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY PAGE 5 Young Astronomers e are finally finished with the telescope W builds. The final touches are being done by Bruce C. and he will have them base painted by the next meeting. Remember this next YA! meeting will be our First Light ceremony for all the telescopes we just built. This will be held out at a remote location (members see the club egroup for directions) graciously hosted by one of our YA! families, so don’t go to the normal meeting location in June! There will be pizza and drinks for refreshments being supplied by the club. All you need to bring is your YA! Handbooks, red flash- lights and planispheres to help find some things to look at. Re- member to wear your t-shirts and badges too, we will want to get a group photo of this event.
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