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September, 2014 IN THIS ISSUE: SEPTEMBER 2014 Event Calendar, Announcements Minutes of the August Meeting MVAS Reminders: September stuff. MVAS Activities: OTAA Work Day. OTAA. Observer’s Notes: WZ- A Bugger; A Legacy Observer's Challenge: The Owl Cluster Charts: Variable WZ Cas, Asteroid (12) Victoria Constellation of the Month: Cassiopeia October 2014 Sky Almanac Gallery: A Conjunction. The OTAA Meteorite Editor: Phil Plante 1982 Mathews Rd. #2 Youngstown OH 44514 SEPTEMBER 2014 ANNOUNCEMENTS Newsletter of the Mahoning Valley Astronomical Society, Inc. ATTENTION MVAS. The public observing event scheduled for Saturday September 6, 2014 at Scenic Vista Park has been MVAS CALENDAR cancelled due to the closing of Wayne-Bridge Road for the next three weeks. The small bridge is out of commission. No direct SEP 19 Public Night at YSU. 7:00 PM (Friday night) access to the park is available. No back-up date is planned. OCT 8 Lunar Eclipse. 4:14 AM. OCT 18 MVAS 75th Anniversary Dinner. MVCO. 6PM Black River Astronomical Society OTAA Convention OCT 23 Partial solar eclipse begins at 5:42 PM. Sep. 20, 1pm – Sun, Sept. 21, 12am OCT 25 Business meeting at the MVCO. 8:00 PM At: The Birmingham United Methodist Church, NATIONAL & REGIONAL EVENTS 15018 South Street, Wakeman, Ohio 44889 (use this address for Google Maps) Sep 13 ScopeOut Astronomy Fair 2014. Held at the Cincinnati Observatory Center, in Cincinnati, OH. There will be solar observing in the afternoon (weather An Astronomy and education fair for amateur & permitting) Registration starts at 5:00 p.m. and is $5.00. Dinner professional astronomers, kids of all ages, families, is planned for around 6:00 p.m. It is a pot luck dinner, so bring a teachers; anyone interested in the Universe. The dish to share. BRAS will provide hot dogs, table ware, coffee, Cincinnati Observatory is a fully restored 19th century tea and hot chocolate. There will be free tables provided for observatory with two functional telescopes. The 16” anyone with astronomy-related gear to sell or trade. Door prizes Alvan Clark saw first light in 1904, our 11” Merz and after dinner. There is a large open observing field with good Mahler was the world’s 2nd largest telescope when horizons. It is quite dark. Please bring your telescopes and installed in 1842. Join in for presentations, tours of binoculars. If clear, we are allowed to observe/stay all night. the “Birthplace of American Astronomy”. There will be For driving directions use the address above in Google Maps. a dinner , keynote speaker, then stargazing. Driving directions below are from Google Maps. For a common http://www.cincinnatiobservatory.org/ starting point I used the familiar MVCO/Turnpike exit (209). Sep 24-28 Brothers Star Party for Oregon Observatory. Take I-80 west to Exit 135.... Turn right onto Baumhart Rd... To be held at the Oroc Launch Site near Brothers, Turn right onto OH-113 West... Turn left onto Chapel. Take the OR. This is a primitive dark site about 40 miles 1st left onto Welcome Dr. Look for BRAS on the right. from Bend and Prineville, OR. Access for all From the MVCO, travel time is ~1hr 20 min. and about 83 miles. vehicles is an easy two mile drive from US 20. Add travel from your home to your closest access to I-80. Attendees have had nothing but rave reviews about the dark sky! http://mbsp.org/ MVAS 75th Anniversary T-Shirt. Black shirt. Last names of all past MVAS members over an image of the Rossette Nebula. Price is $14 each. Get your order in by Sep. 27. Contact Jodi. MVAS BOARD OF TRUSTEES President Lou DiNardo Vice President Rich Mattuissi Treasurer Steve Bartos Secretary Phil Plante Appointed Trustee (2014 & 2015) Rosemary Chomos Appointed Trustee (2013 & 2014) Bob Danko Elected Trustee (2013) Don Cherry OBSERVATORY STAFF Observatory Director Larry Plante Assistant Director Dave Ruck Assistant Observatory Staff Chuck Oiesen Librarian Rosemary Chomos PUBLICATIONS STAFF Meteorite Editor Phil Plante Production / Editor Steve Bartos MVAS Webmaster Sam DiRocco 1076 SR 534, NEWTON FALLS, OH 44444-9998 MVAS Homepage- http://mvobservatory.com SEPTEMBER 2014 THE METEORITE pg. 1 MIINUTES OF THE AUGUST MEETING next to a strong narrowband radio signal that was detected. A AUGUST 30, 2014 at the MVCO possible ET signal. It has never been detected since. Jodi added that they have a small telescope to be raffled-off at the The meeting was held outdoors as usual. A warm night. dinner. It is an Astronomy Without Borders 5.3” One Sky President Lou DiNardo called the meeting to order. Six of the reflector. We will use regular raffle tickets handed to attendees. Executive Board were present. Roll Call was answered by 14 IMAGING COMMITTEE: Lou DiNardo has been processing a members; Miranda being the most favorite Shakespearian few images from the imaging group. He has recently posted his character or satellite of Uranus. Our guests included Dominic work to the group. (image of M-101 and the Bubble nebula). and Nicholas Mattuissi, Sue Alexander and Randy Cox. Randy Chris Stephan tells us that the AAVSO has just released a and Sue had expressed interest in membership. It was voted on manual for doing variable star photometry using dslrs and that by unanimous vote to suspend the reading of the Minutes and imagers might give it a try. The manual may be a pdf download accept them as published. Chris Stephan had made the motion form the AAVSO website. VISUAL COMMITTEE: No reports which was seconded by Don Cherry. called for. Please make an effort to record observations. See TREASURER’S REPORT: The Report was read by Phil Plante Phil if you need a report form. in the absence of the Treasurer. With no further discussion or OFFICER REPORTS: OBSERVATORY DIRECTOR: Larry questions, Larry Plante moved to accept the report. Bob Danko Plante reports that the MVCO survived the OTAA in good made a second to the motion. All in favor by voice vote. shape. Things are in good order and working well. He collected General Fund 7/1 thru 7/31 2014 three months Homework from Phil Plante. LIBRARIAN: Nothing to report. OPENING BALANCE: $ 9,599.87 CLOSING BALANCE: $ 9,435.73 OLD BUSINESS: Jodi has been in contact with Harry Harker AVAILABLE FUNDS (NON-RESERVED): $ 5,206.61 and Robert Blevins about the website. She hopes that it will be ACCOUNT NET GAIN/LOSS FOR THIS PERIOD: $ -164.14 fixed very soon. She is looking at various Google options. INCOME: Randy suggested she look into a web design site called “Square Space”. Jodi and Roy have been in touch with the Columbiana INTEREST $ 0.17 TOTAL INCOME $ 0.17 Library system, hoping to start a library loaner scope program. This program would only be for Columbiana libraries. The library EXPENSES: was very enthusiastic about the idea and have applied for a CK# 2809 NEW MAIL BOX (AT MVCO) $ 34.41 $2,000 grant from the Columbiana Community Foundation. 2810 20 ASTRONOMY CALENDARS FOR 2015 129.90 They are seeking to buy 6 Orion 4.5” Star Blast Telescopes. TOTAL EXPENSES $ 164.31 MVAS would provide maintenance and would make “fool-proof” Reserved Funds modifications. A possible star gazing event is planned. Regarding the Anniversary Dinner, former MVAS President OBERVATORY ACQUISITION & DEVELOPMENT FUND $ 3,914.12 Greg Klocek will provide Rita’s Italian Ice at the event. Larry MVCO KEY DEPOSITS 285.00 SUNSHINE FUND 30.00 asked what flavors we wanted. The vote was for Mango, Peach, TOTAL RESERVED FUNDS $ 4,229.12 and Pumpkin. (sorry no lemon square flavor) 2014 Membership dues paid by: NONE NEW BUSINESS: The McCulloughs report that Wayne-Bridge Road is closed down for three weeks due to the small bridge CORRESPONDENCE: A note was left under the door at the being knocked out. Wayne-Bridge is the primary access road to MVCO from Steve Simpson in Newton Falls. He was interested Scenic Vista. They explored the area and found a six mile in the group. He had been contacted and invited to the OTAA. detour that would go through gravel back roads and in the dark He was to locate the OD but this never happened. going home. They noted it would also be out of the way for COMMITTEE REPORTS: 75th Anniversary Committee: Jodi Lisbon residents. The event is near full moon and rain was the McCullough had the anniversary T-shirt design on a laptop for forecast for the event. Many were uncomfortable with the members to evaluate. It received a favorable response. It’s a detour. Phil Plante moved to cancel the event. Roy McCullough black shirt with the last names of all MVAS members since seconded the motion. A unanimous voice vote adopted the 1939, superimposed on an image of the Rossette Nebula. With motion. Option were brought up to have it in Lisbon. Dick Klesch current orders, he price will be $14 each. We will need to place suggested Beaver Township Preserve. He and Eric go there an order by the September meeting in order to have them ready often. Stay tuned if a back-up site is chosen. Jodi will contact for the dinner Oct. 18th. It was suggested we send shirts to Scenic Vista and inform them of the cancellation. Allen and Bette and have one for our speaker. It was suggested Next Randy and Sue introduced themselves. Randy moved we have several in stock for future sales. Rosemary reported here from Erie, PA about one and a half years ago. He was that we will likely get side dishes from Mocha House along with active in public outreach and now uses a 12” RCX for imaging cheese cakes.
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