Thursday October 20

 7:00 PM

Navajo Room

Regular Meeting. 

Speaker: Dr. Mark Holdaway, National Radio Astronomy Organization (NRAO), "ALMA: A New Telescope Opening the Window to the Cool Universe"

Tuesday, Nov. 1

5:00 PM

Catalina State Park

Group Area

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Annual Fall Star Party.  Bring your telescopes and binoculars.  If you don't have any, there should be plenty available for your enjoyment.  Reservations not required.  Bring your own dinners.  The club will provide a charcoal fire for those wishing to barbecue.  (Sunset 6:33 PM)  

Wednesday, Nov. 16

1:00 PM

Social Hall Auditorium

Annual Club Fair.  Volunteers needed for booth duty. 

Thursday, Nov. 17

7:00 PM

Navajo Room

Regular Meeting.  Speaker, Dr. Philip A. Pinto, Associate Professor, Steward Observatory, U of A, "The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and Celestial Cinematography"

Thursday, Dec. 15, 7:00 PM, Navajo Room

Regular Meeting.  Speaker: Fr. William Stoeger, S.J., Vatican Observatory, “Cosmological Mysteries -- Evidence for the Unseen: Dark Matter and Dark Energy.''

Thursday, January 19

7:00 PM

Navajo Room

Regular Meeting.  Speaker: Donald Sweeney, Project Manager, “The LSST – By Far the World’s Largest Survey Telescope”

Thursday, February 16,  7:00 PM

Navajo Room

Regular Meeting.    Speaker: To be advised.

Required Club Business: Appointment of Nominating Committee Chair.

Thursday, March 16

 7:00 PM

Navajo Room

Regular Meeting.  Speaker: Dr. Jay Holberg, Senior Research Scientist, UA Lunar & Planetary Laboratory, "Distant Suns".  (The talk involves how we came to understand what the stars are, beginning with the ancient Greeks and up to the present.)

Required Club Business: Appointment of Audit Committee Chair.

Thursday, April 20,

7:00 PM

Navajo Room

Annual Meeting.  Speaker: Dr. Donald McCarthy, U of A, Astronomy Dept., “Searches for Other Planetary Systems”

Required Club Business: Election of officers.

Thursday, April 27

6:00 PM

Catalina State Park

Group Area

Annual Star Party and Barbecue.  Click here for instructions and restrictions.  The barbeque starts at 6:00 and stargazing at dusk (approximately 7:30). The club will furnish hamburgers, hotdogs, veggie burgers, condiments and cold soft drinks.  If you wish hot drinks, etc., bring your own.  Of course, bring your telescopes and binoculars.  If you don’t have any, there should be plenty available for your enjoyment.

Thursday, May 18

 7:00 PM

 Navajo Room

Regular Meeting. 

Speaker, Dr. Peter Smith, University of Arizona, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, “Phoenix Mars Scout Mission”.

Required Club Business: Audit Committee report and next year’s budget.