HERE - Kansas Astronomical Observers in Wichita, Kansas

ANTARES The Newsletter of the Kansas Astronomical Observers ________________________________________________ September 20, 2013 7:30 P.M. Lake Afton Public Observatory Next regular club meeting will be October 18, 2013 At Great Plains Nature Center at 7:30 p.m. October through April, we will have our meetings at: Great Plains Nature Center 6232 E. 29th Street North (Near 29th and Woodlawn) May through September we meet at Lake Afton Public Observatory all meetings at 7:30pm KAO website http://www.kaowichita.com The Night sky Network http://nightsky.jpl.nasa.gov/ The Astronomical League http://www.astroleague.org Please if you have any suggestions for the Newsletter e-mail them to [email protected] Subject line “Antares” Current Club Officers President: Harold Henderson 687-0113 [email protected] Vice President: Ron Heath 807-4591 [email protected] Treasurer: Melissa Leis 316-734-2640 [email protected]

Agenda (September, 2013 meeting) Meeting will be at Lake Afton Public Observatory  Welcome to New members & Guests Review Upcoming Meetings / Topics:

Date

Location

(Theme)

September 20th Lake Afton

(Last summer night of 2013)

October 12th

Lake Afton

Astronomy Day / International Observe the Moon Night

October 18th

Great Plains

Elections for 2014-2015 officers

Elections Election of new officers is coming up in October. We are looking for candidates. Harold and Ron cannot run for re-election due to term limits. So far we have the following. Fred Gassert, President, Richard Meredith VicePresident and Melissa Leis Treasurer. We still need a newsletter editor/Secretary (I have Harold interested in this position). Anyone else who is interested in running for an office please let me or Harold know and we will get you on the ballot. If you cannot attend the October meeting and want your vote to count you can vote in Absentee and either mail your vote to Harold at 1010 Inverness Road Wichita, KS 67218 or by email at [email protected].

Master Observer Chris Lamer has completed all of the requirements for the Master observer award given by the Astronomical League. He has completed the following Observing awards: Program 1

Messier Program

2

Lunar Program

3

Binocular Messier Program

4

Caldwell Program

5

Level

Certificate #

Date

2322

10/10/2006

831

8/20/2013

867

3/4/2010

157

5/6/2010

Deep Sky Binocular Program

292

5/10/2010

6

Herschel 400 Program

434

5/11/2010

7

Double Star Program

480

1/9/2012

8

Globular Cluster Program

204

1/13/2012

9

Urban Observing Program

146

3/9/2013

38

5/13/2013

10

Carbon Star Program

silver

It’s been over seven years, and in SkyTools, Chris has logged 876 unique objects of all types. Hats off to Chris and all his hard work.

Okie-Tex 2013

The Oklahoma City Astronomy Club is pleased to invite you to the 30th Annual Okie-Tex Star Party September 28 - October 6, 2013. The star party will be held at Camp Billy Joe near Kenton Oklahoma and Black Mesa offers some of the darkest skies anywhere in the southwestern United States. A number of us in the club will be attending this year and we will give an update at next clubs meeting. Follow us on Face Book @ https://www.facebook.com/pages/Okie-Tex-Star-Party/258115644226791

School Outreach This Friday at Kinsler Elementary School Taylor Vincent and I are going to present an astronomy program for his 4th grade class. We are going to present the pocket Solar System and solar system size comparison using Play dough. Both are simple presentations and the kids really enjoy them. If you know of an elementary student ask them if you can come to their class and present something that interests you about astronomy. It is rewarding for you and the students. When you’ve completed your program, log it on Night Sky Network.