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San Diego Astronomy Association Celebrating Over 50 Years of Astronomical Outreach San Diego Astronomy Association Celebrating Over 50 Years of Astronomical Outreach September 2018 http://www.sdaa.org A Non-Profit Educational Association P.O. Box 23215, San Diego, CA 92193-3215 September Program Meeting Date: September 19, 2018 Next SDAA Business Meeting Speaker: Curt Kinghorn September 11th at 7:00pm Topic: Radio Astronomy 7270 Trade Street San Diego, CA 92121 Curt Kinghorn is the Chief Executive Officer and President Next Program Meeting at Kinder Scientific. He is an September 19th at 7:00pm avid amateur radio astronomer Mission Trails Regional Park and frustrated mad scientist. Visitor and Interpretive Center 1 Father Junipero Serra Trail CONTENTS September 2018, Vol LVI, Issue 9 San Diego Astronomy Association (SDAA) sponsors speakers on a wide range of Published Monthly by the astronomy topics on the third Wednesday of every month at the Mission Trails Regional San Diego Astronomy Association Park Visitors Center. The program meeting begins at 7:00pm. Each attendee receives Incorporated in California in 1963 one free door prize ticket. After announcements and a small amount of business, the Program Meeting...........1 audience is treated to the featured presentation. At the close of the meeting the door 2018 TDS Schedule...........1 prizes are presented. The event is open to the public. The Mission Trails Regional Park August Minutes.......2 Visitors Center is at One Fr. Junipero Serra Trail, San Diego CA 92119. Call the park at Astronomical League Conference.5 619-668-3281 for more information or visit http://www.mtrp.org For Sale.....................9 Julian Natural WonderFest..10 COSPAR Symposium..17 September Calendar................18 SDAA Contacts...............19 Meet the Members......20 NASA Space Place Partner Article .21 2018 TDS Star Party Schedule Astronomy Cartoon............23 Date Type Sunset Twilight Moon Rise/Set Illumination 9/1/2018 Public 7:13 PM 8:38 PM 11:14 PM 67.20% 9/8/2018 Private 7:03 PM 8:27 PM 6:44 PM 1.40% 10/6/2018 Private 6:26 PM 7:48 PM 5:19 PM 7.80% Newsletter Deadline 10/13/2018 Public 6:17 PM 7:39 PM 9:51 PM 24.70% The deadline to submit articles 11/3/2018 Public 5:55 PM 7:19 PM 2:56 AM 18.60% for publication is the 11/10/2018 Private 4:50 PM 6:15 PM 7:29 PM 11.00% 15th of each month. 12/1/2018 Public 4:42 PM 6:09 PM 1:51 AM 32.30% 12/8/2018 Private 4:42 PM 6:10 PM 6:09 PM 2.50% San Diego Astronomy Association San Diego Astronomy Association Board of Directors Meeting August 14, 2018- Unapproved and subject to revision 1. Call to Order The meeting was called to order at 7:00pm with the following board members in attendance: Dave Wood, President; Kin Searcy, Vice President; Gene Burch, Treasurer; Scott Dixon, Corresponding Secretary; Brian McFarland, Recording Secretary; Jeff Herman, Director; Pat Boyce, Director; Dave Decker, Director. Members in attendance: Gracie Schutze. 2. Approval of Last Meeting Minutes – June meeting minutes approved (July meeting was cancelled due to lack of quorum). 3. Priority / Member Business – An incident at TDS was reported to the Board. Around 2am Monday August 13th, one of our members was in the process of Imaging when a young man went by with a 'white light.' (He was part of a group that drove in with white lights). The member kindly reminded the young man about only using red lights while out, etc. The young man walked past and did not acknowledge the member. The young man walked back and the member again commented about not having a red light. The group the young man was with promptly started cursing at and threatening the member. The member identified himself to the group amid the yelling. Their conversation continued for another 10 minutes or so. The Board is seeking further information about this incident and who these people were. 4. Treasurer’s & Membership Report – Approved. • The audit went well. • Haven’t heard back from the accountant as to our being in compliance. • The accountant finished our taxes. • Insurance came in and was paid. • Need to send our raffle paperwork in September. • Membership remains steady. • Received about $70 from Amazon Smile program. We receive approximately that amount every quarter. • We need to change the check writing and credit authorizations soon. 5. Standard Reports a. Site Maintenance – Site appears to be in great shape. b. Observatory/Loaner Scope Report – The requirements for hosting and using the Lipp telescope isn’t clear. If it isn’t documented anywhere, it needs to be. Recollections by some of the geezers on the Board are as follows: • For hosting, it’s one year of contributing membership plus successfully passing the training class, demonstrating proficiency, and co-hosting. • For private use, host qualifications plus having hosted TBD number of times on TDS Member or Public nights. • The Board is looking for documentation and clarification of these requirements. c. Private Pad Report – . We currently have 4 un-leased pads and 4 people looking to lease pads. Of the 4 pads available, one is pad 36, which really looks like it was added to the pad list as an afterthought. It has never been developed and will be very hard to lease. Of the 4 people looking for pads, one is the current lessee of Pad 1 who is looking to move away from the light trespass from the west. One of the others is looking to set up a remote observatory (like Mike and John). I'm not sure that any of the currently available pads really fit his needs, but I'm working with him to find a suitable location and plan on putting him in touch with Mike and John when we get closer to picking suitable locations so he can develop plans. 2 San Diego Astronomy Association d. Program Report • Dennis Mammana has confirmed for the program meeting this week and has advertised it on Facebook. September meeting will be on radio astronomy with Curt Kinghorn. October TBD and Kin will ask SDSU. e. September program meeting speaker will be Curt Kinghorn on amateur radio astronomy. f. AISIG Report – Kin presented at the last meeting. Tonight is a combination PixInsight and AISIG meeting at AC Wood’s house. g. Newsletter Report – Andrea continues to do stellar work. h. Website Report – No report. i. Social Media Report – There is nothing new to report for Social Media. Public engagement is steady on Facebook! j. Outreach Report – The latest on our monthly public venue schedules (Thanks Kin Searcy!): Mission Trails Regional Park • No change for meeting schedules. • MTRP - Kumeyaay Lake CG, beginning in September on the FIRST Friday. • MTRP – West Sycamore, beginning in September on the THIRD Friday. SD County Parks • Oakoasis – Remains on the SECOND Saturday. • Sycamore Canyon - Hwy 67, beginning September alternate FOURTH Friday Balboa Park • Stars in the Park, on the Prado, FIRST Wednesday, no change. TDS Public • The TDS schedule for 2019 has been posted on the Outreach and Public calendars. We still have KQ Ranch and Cuyamaca State Park events on August 18, and September 8, and KQ Ranch again on October 27. We also have a few single public events coming up: - September 1: Imperial Beach Library - September 15: Mt. Helix Park - October 13: Astronomy Day, Balboa Park Solar – Permit Request Submitted For July, here are the numbers: Totals for Month: Events Completed 8.0 Events Cancelled 1.0 Public Attendance 765.0 Private Attendance 100.0 Total Attendance 865.0 Mem Support: 52.0 Average: Mem/Event: 6.5 Year to Date since January 1 Completed Events since January 1: 53 Public Attendees since Jan 1: 2164 Private Attendees since Jan 1: 2350 Total Attendees since Jan 1: 4514 3 San Diego Astronomy Association k. TARO Report • Wires somehow got wrapped around the focuser and filter wheel; Dave W handled it. • TESS is starting to take real data – it arrives about every two weeks. We’ll be generating data in a month or two. • Students in Pat’s program are starting to train up. Looking at as many as 25 to 30 students. l. Merchandise Report – m. Cruzen Report – Brian is waiting to hear back from the electrician who will do the work. n. Astronomical League Report (Mary Todd) – We attended the Annual Conference (ALCon) of the Astronomical League. John and I really enjoyed the conference. We thought they did an amazing job. There were more than 350 attendees. The basic theme was outreach, but there were workshops on other topics including imaging. There were presentations from some nationally known speakers as well as local experts from the University of Minnesota. Thank you for the T shirts and business cards. Both were helpful for making contacts. Vivek Vijayakumar and his family approached me in the conference area when they saw the T shirt. Vivek received the first place National Young Astronomer award. They were very pleased that there was a representative present from SDAA. They told me about the youth presentations which were Saturday morning and separate from the awards ceremony at the banquet. His presentation was excellent. I am working on an article for the newsletter which will provide more detail along with links readers may find interesting. John Goss, Astronomical League president, suggested that SDAA add a link from our website to the Astronomical League website. The 2019 ALCon will begin at the Kennedy Space Center to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing. The attendees will then board a boat for a three-day southern skies cruise to the Bahamas for the remainder of the conference.
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