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The Observer of the Twin City Amateur Astronomers THE OBSERVER OF THE TWIN CITY AMATEUR ASTRONOMERS Volume 46, Number 1 January 2021 INSIDE THIS ISSUE: 1 Editor’s Choice: Image of the Month – Conjunction! 2 President’s Note 3 Calendar of Astronomical Events – January 2021 3 New & Renewing Members/Dues Blues/E-Mail List 4 This Month’s Phases of the Moon 4 This Month’s Solar Phenomena 4 AstroBits – News from Around the TCAA 6 TCAA Image Gallery 7 Tentative Agenda Set for Feb. 6th Annual Meeting 7 Call for TCAA Awards Nominations 8 Public Viewing Sessions for 2021 8 TCAA Monthly Club Meetings to Resume in March 9 Unwanted TCAA Assets 11 January 2021 with Jeffrey L. Hunt 16 Did You Know? 17 “Publications & Notes” Website 17 TCAA Treasurer’s Report as of December 28, 2020 18 NCRAL Seasonal Messier Mini Marathons 18 Add Your Email to NCRAL Member Database 18 Check Out the NCRAL Website The TCAA is an affiliate of the Astronomical League as well as its North Central Region. For more information about the TCAA, be certain to visit the TCAA website at http://www.tcaa.us/ EDITOR’S CHOICE: IMAGE OF THE MONTH – CONJUNCTION! Visit http://www.astroleague.org for This month’s image of the Jupiter-Saturn conjunction was taken by additional information about the Scott Wade on December 21st, the evening of closest approach. He Astronomical League and its used the Canon 5D Mark IV camera on the 14” telescope at Prairie numerous membership benefits, Sky Observatory. This image is a composite of 10 such images taken including observing programs. at ISO 400, 1/125-second exposures. They were then stacked and processes in Photoshop. As Scott quipped, “It’s amazing how much Also, visit the NCRAL website at closer they were than when we were out on 12/17. Of course, they http://ncral.wordpress.com for in- were very low in the sky!” formation about our North Central Region. Find out about the many benefits of your membership from this site. Copyright © 2021 TCAA 1 All rights reserved. Vol. 46, No. 1 The OBSERVER of the Twin City Amateur Astronomers January 2021 PRESIDENT’S NOTE The OBSERVER It’s hard to believe I’m writing the is the monthly electronic newsletter of Twin first President’s Note of 2021. In some City Amateur Astronomers, Inc., a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit educational organiz- ways it feels like we’ve been through an ation of amateur astronomers interested in epic battle, complete with the sorrows of studying astronomy and sharing their hobby loss and the exultation of victory. I’ve lost with the public. friends this year, and some of them were due to the COVID-19 virus. I feel happy TCAA OFFICERS & CHAIRPERSONS and fortunate to have made it through President, Director, & Property Manager this rough year, but more than all that I Tim Stone 309-531-2401 feel like I’ve been given a great [email protected] opportunity to reset, recenter, Vice President & Director/Membership Coord. reprioritize, and restructure my life. Some things that seemed important to me a Tom Willmitch 309-846-2423 TCAA President Tim Stone [email protected] year ago no longer seem to matter much, Treasurer & Director/Registered Agent and some things I hadn’t spent much time thinking about are now much higher Dave Osenga 309-287-0789 priority in my life. While the year has been hard, it has been good, and I’m looking [email protected] forward to seeing what this personal growth will bring to fruition. I hope you all can Assistant Property Manager/ALCor say the same thing as you reflect on 2020 and look forward to 2021. Scott Wade 309-310-2464 [email protected] Looking forward for TCAA, our Annual Meeting will quickly be upon us. It will 5th Director begin at 6:00PM February 6th, but unfortunately, there won’t be a banquet this year. Sunil Chebolu 678-896-5967 To make up for that, we’ve invited two speakers to present on interesting topics. [email protected] We’re still finalizing the arrangements, and when it’s all set, we will post the agenda, Secretary/Historian/Editor topics, and Zoom link to our mailing list. If you’re not subscribed to the mailing list, Carl J. Wenning 309-830-4085 you should do that, so you don’t miss this and other informational postings from the [email protected] club leadership, as well as information exchange and conversations between club Technology Coordinator/Assistant Editor members. Subscribe by visiting the TCAA groups.io page. Sandullah Epsicokhan 309-828-0227 [email protected] Finally, I’d be remiss to not mention the remarkable conjunction between Webmaster Jupiter and Saturn. This “Christmas Star” occurs every two decades but human Lee Green 309-454-7349 [email protected] haven’t seen a separation this small for centuries. That it happened near Christmas is not particularly remarkable. In fact, it is the result of orbital mechanics as old as AL Observing Club Coordinator Lisa Wentzel unlisted number the solar system itself. It was always going to happen at this exact point in time. At [email protected] some point in recent history, we decided to call that point in time “December 21.” It was breathtakingly beautiful, and it did influence humanity. It wasn’t the mysterious The OBSERVER astrological effect some tried to say it was. Still, it was very real, at least for me. It Carl J. Wenning, Editor reminded me that hope is a choice, and to hope is a virtue. It gave me pause to Submission deadline two days before remember the universe and all its beauty is always there. It is up to us to make the the end of each month. choice to not focus on the horrible things going on around us, in our lives, our MEMBERSHIP DUES country, our world. We can always look up and see the night sky, unaffected by human woes, telling us beauty still exists in overwhelming abundance, and is there Individual Adult/Family $40 for us to get lost in. I hope your 2021 is filled with more beauty than you’ve ever Full-time Student/Senior $25 imagined. (Senior status equals ages 60+) To join, send your name, contact info, and Tim Stone dues payment to Dave Osenga, TCAA TCAA President Treasurer, 1109 N. Linden St., Normal, IL 61761-1471. Copyright © 2021 TCAA 2 All rights reserved. Vol. 46, No. 1 The OBSERVER of the Twin City Amateur Astronomers January 2021 CALENDAR OF ASTRONOMICAL EVENTS – JAN 2021 NEW & RENEWING MEMBERS MORNING PLANETS (1/15): Venus (♀︎) The following individuals have paid dues for new or EVENING PLANETS (1/15): Mercury (☿), Mars (♂︎), Jupiter (♃), renewed memberships as of December 28, 2020. (Others Saturn (♄), Uranus (⛢), and Neptune (♆) who paid after that date will appear in the February 2021 issue of The OBSERVER.) The following table gives the date and time (24-hour clock) of Welcome! Welcome! Welcome! Welcome! Welcome! important astronomical events for this month. All events are given in Central Standard Time. New: Jack Corzine Renewing: Jamey Jenkins, Allan Griffith, Troy Berg Day Time Event 01 01:05 Beehive 2.3°S of Moon Welcome! Welcome! Welcome! Welcome! Welcome! 02 08 Earth at Perihelion: 0.98325 AU 02 15:58 Regulus 4.7°S of Moon DUES BLUES 03 09 Quadrantid Meteor Shower If you have received a dues statement email along 06 03:37 LAST QUARTER MOON with this issue of The OBSERVER, please send your dues 09 09:39 Moon at Perigee: 367390 km to Mr. Dave Osenga, TCAA Treasurer, 1109 N. Linden St., 09 20:08 Antares 5.6°S of Moon Normal, IL 61761-1471. Dues are currently $25 for seniors 09 23 Mercury 1.6° of Saturn (60 years of age and over) and $40 regular. 10 14:14 Moon at Descending Node 11 12 Mercury 1.4° of Jupiter SUBSCRIBING TO THE TCAA EMAIL LIST 11 14:12 Venus 1.5°N of Moon 12 23:00 NEW MOON Welcome to the [email protected] group at Groups.io. 14 02:15 Mercury 2.3°N of Moon This is a free, easy-to-use group email service set up for 20 15:02 FIRST QUARTER MOON the TCAA’s communication purposes. You can subscribe, 20 23:37 Mars 5.1°N of Moon visit your group, read and post messages here: 21 07:11 Moon at Apogee: 404361 km https://groups.io/g/tcaa 23 20 Mercury Greatest Elong: 18.6°E The email address for this group is [email protected]. After you successfully subscribe, please add this email 23 20 Saturn in Conjunction with Sun address to your safe sender list in your email client’s 23 22:39 Aldebaran 4.7°S of Moon contacts, so emails from this list are not classified as junk 24 15:47 Moon at Ascending Node mail. 27 09:46 Pollux 3.8°N of Moon Once subscribed, you can set your subscription 28 08:50 Beehive 2.3°S of Moon settings here: https://groups.io/g/tcaa/editsub. You can 28 13:16 FULL MOON opt to receive all messages in individual emails, collections 28 19 Jupiter in Conjunction with Sun of messages in a digest, a daily summary, or only special 28 20 Mercury at Perihelion notices. If you do not wish to belong to this group, you 29 22:56 Regulus 4.6°S of Moon may unsubscribe by sending an email to [email protected] This Calendar of Astronomical Events courtesy of Fred Espenak.
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