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SMCAS Monthly Meeting
November 6 at 7:30
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College of San Mateo
1700 West Hillsdale Blvd., Bldg 36-100 ,
San
Mateo, California
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Directions to College of
San Mateo
Star Parties at
Crestview Park
Events and Club News
Other Astronomy Events in Our Area
SMCAS Monthly Calendar
Club Websites, Membership Application
SMCAS patches on sale
Update, November 17
Hello All Dobson Class Members and Sidewalk Astronomers,
John is soon arriving from Burbank at Oakland International Airport ~ 8:45 PM
tonight.
Dean Gustafson has been kind enough to pick him up.
He'll be staying at his Judah Street digs if you'd like to pay him a visit.
I'm sure he'd like that...especially during the daytime.
If you forgot, he likes to go to Trader Joe's for his usual carrot juice, yogurt
and
raisin bran.
Why not accompany him on the N Judah or give him a lift up and back?
What: The SFAA/SFSA will be holding a birthday celebration for his 94th trip
around our Sun.
When: Wednesday, November 18th 7:00 PM
Where: Randall Museum..Have a telescope you made?..bring it! Let's have a Valley
of the
Dobs in his honor. Hey, Jupiter is out.
Why: Cake and coffee.
After: At 7:30 ish in the theatre the SFAA will be showing BLAST! for free of
course. All
are invited. (no food in the theatre please).
John may want to do some sidewalk astronomy (likely spot of 9th & Judah) or
maybe we can
talk him into the SFAA Lands End Star Party on Saturday ! 4:30 with solar scopes
first.
Sunday he'll leave via van with the lovely and ever thoughtful Donna Smith.
Donna is coming up on Friday and will have some of John's books for sale. No
DVD's or
telescope making cassettes though &-(
Please call/email all our classmates / sidewalk astronomer buddies and say hello
to John
on Wednesday.
See you in the dark and enjoy tonight's Leonid's (even though as John says:
"I don't do
gravel"),
Ken
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Update, November 17
History of Doppler Shift and Zeeman
Effect by Amateurs
Update, November 27
Final entry for November Newsletter
Crestview Star
Parties
Number of people in attendance
subject to weather.
Crestview 2005/7 Sun Chart
Scobee Star Chart
Scobee
Planetarium
The Solar System Live
Saturdays - Dusk - 10pm
November 7
& 14 - December 12 & 19
January 9 & 16 - February 6 & 13 - March 6 & 13
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Come out and see
how many different things you can
identify
in the night sky!
Bring
your binoculars, telescopes, star guides, and lounge chairs for some informal
star gazing at Crestview Park. Dress warmly, wear a hat. Cars should arrive before dark so that headlights don't affect people's dark
adaptation. Bring small flashlights only, with the lens covered with red
cellophane or red balloon. Please don't touch a telescope without permission.
And parents, please watch your children.
Directions to Crestview Park: Take Hwy 101 or El Camino to Brittan Avenue in
San Carlos, and turn west (right from El Camino). From El Camino, follow Brittan
about 2.3 miles to the intersection with Crestview Drive. From Alameda, go about
1.4 miles to Crestview. Turn right on Crestview. A small sign saying "Crestview
Park" is a half-block ahead on the right.
Look to the left for the park entry road, a small street between houses #998 and 1000.
If after dark, please park on Crestview to avoid disturbing the observing with
headlight glare.
From Highway 280 to Edgewood Road. Go east toward the Bay about 0.8 miles. Left on
Crestview Drive. Go 0.5 miles uphill to the intersection with Brittan Avenue. Go one
short block to the park entrance on the left.
Generally the first star party is around the 3/4
moon and the second party is a week later (around the new moon). Our
experience is that 4 or 5 days after the full moon the moon rises late
enough that it won't bother observing. Some months the calendar and the and
the moon phases give us a star party with a new moon or at least less than a
quarter moon. This is OK because we all like to do a little moon observing
once in a while. Sometimes we even call it a moon party.
Leroy Amen
Crestview Park is at W122° 17', N37° 29'
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REACH FOR THE STARS AT CSM!
With its planetarium, variety of astronomy courses, top-notch faculty,
and special events such as Star Parties, when the College partners with the
San Mateo County Astronomical Society...or with CSM's many A.A., A.S., and
certificate programs, its scenic and historic campus, the ease with which
you can sign up for classes online as a first-time or returning student...
The possibilities are astronomical.
COLLEGE OF SAN MATEO. Visit us on the web at http://gocsm.net
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Astronomy Events in Our Area
( Edited for November )
Bay
Astro, Ken L's Event List
RANDALL
MUSEUM
ANNOUNCES
SAN FRANCISCO
AMATEUR
ASTRONOMERS’ LECTURE SERIES
A
Special Screening of Paul Devlin’s Film
BLAST!
7:30PM
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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2009
AT
THE RANDALL MUSEUM THEATER
SFAA presents a
special screening of BLAST!
Filmmaker Paul
Devlin follows the story of his brother,
Mark Devlin PhD, as he leads a tenacious team of scientists hoping to
figure out how all the galaxies formed by launching a revolutionary
new telescope under a NASA high-altitude balloon.
BLAST!
is about the crazy life of scientists. Their professional obsessions,
personal and family sacrifices, and philosophical and religious
questioning all give emotional resonance to a spectacular and
suspenseful story of space exploration.
What: Special
Screening of Paul Devlin’s Film
BLAST!
When:
7pm
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Where:
Randall
Museum
199 Museum Way
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SF
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CA
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IYA2009
at Berkeley
This UC Berkeley Speaker series for the International Year of Astronomy 2009
Public Talks,
Hosted by the UC Berkeley Astronomy
Department
http://astro.berkeley.edu/~scroft/iya/
Saturday, November 21, 2009:
"Cosmic Fireworks: The Explosive Deaths of Massive Stars"
Maryam Modjaz
Dean
Lectures
California
Academy of Sciences
https://www.calacademy.org/event_tickets/.
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Benjamin Dean Lecture Series in Astronomy
Morrison Planetarium
California Academy of Sciences
55 Concourse Drive
San Francisco, CA 94118
415-379-8000
deanseries@calacademy.org
http://www.calacademy.org/events/index.php
SLAC Physics
Lecture Series at Stanford Linear Accelerator
http://www.slac.
stanford.
edu/welcome/
location.
html (how to get to SLAC)
Silicon
Valley Astronomy Lecture Series
Foothill College
Los Altos Hills, CA
Public Lectures, Open to Everyone
-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Fraknoi [mailto:fraknoiandrew zazt fhda.edu]
Subject: Talk on Life in Extreme Environments at Foothill College Nov. 11
Public Lecture, Open to Everyone
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Wednesday, Nov. 11, at 7 pm:
LIFE AT THE EDGE:
Life in Extreme Environments on Earth
and the Search for Life in the Universe
Dr. Lynn Rothschild, NASA Ames Research Ctr.
part of the 11th Annual Silicon Valley Astronomy Lectures in the Smithwick
Theater, Foothill College, El Monte Road and Freeway 280, in Los Altos Hills,
California.
Free and open to the public.
Parking on campus costs $2.
Call the series hot-line at 650-949-7888 for more information and driving
directions.
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Lynn Rothschild has gone from the Bolivian Andes to the Rift Valley of Kenya
searching for the hardiest of organisms in the most extreme environments for
life.
By getting to know life forms on Earth that can occupy the most hostile
niches, we can begin to understand the survival requirements for life in
general. Dr. Rothschild will describe her quest for "life at the
edge" and how such discoveries will shape our search for life in the
Solar System and beyond.
Dr. Rothschild is an astrobiologist at NASA Ames where she specializes in
evolutionary microbiology and the use of molecular and cellular techniques to
understand DNA damage and photosynthesis in nature. As a Consulting
Professor at Stanford, she teaches a popular course on "Astrobiology and
Space Exploration".
No background in science will be required for this talk. Seating is
first come, first served.
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The lectures are co-sponsored by:
* NASA Ames Research Center
* The Foothill College Astronomy Program
* The SETI Institute
* The Astronomical Society of the Pacific.
This talk is part of the local events celebrating the International Year of
Astronomy in 2009.
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Past Silicon Valley Astronomy Lectures are now available in MP3 format at:
http://www.astrosociety.org/education/podcast/index.html
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Seti Seminar Series
The colloquiums are free and open to the public, and run from
noon to 1 pm on Wednesdays at the SETI
Institute, 515 N. Whisman Road, Mountain View, California.
UC Berkeley's Lawrence
Hall of Science
http://www.lawrencehallofscience.org
Lick Observatory
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Plan to arrive after noon and before 3 PM for best access to Public
Areas.
This is an all day trip climbing to
4200 feet on the historic
Mount Hamilton Road, Route 130.
Alum Rock off of 101 or 680.
Please don't pass bicyclists
on the blind curves.
Gift Shop
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Mt Tam
Enthusiasts-
Mt Tam , website: mttam.net
Exploratorium in San Francisco
http://www.exploratorium.edu/
The Tech Museum, downtown
San Jose
Western
Amateur Astronomers
Peninsula Astronomical Society
OTHER CLUBS & EVENTS - For regularly-updated information on other
astronomical organizations and events, we refer you to the website of the
Astronomical Association of Northern California;
www.aanc-astronomy.orgJane H J on your I-Pod,
http://education.jpl.nasa.gov/amateurastronomy/index.html
For those of you with an interest in Java Programs and/or
extra-solar planet search see:
http://oklo.org/?page_id=86
This is a forum run by students and instructors at
Lick Observatory concerning the reduction of extra-solar
radial velocity data. Update at: http://www.oklo.org/
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Astronomical Society of the Pacific
ASP Website
U.S. Department of the Interior
U.S. Geological Survey,
Public Programs:
http://online.wr.usgs.gov/calendar/
The Intel Museum
Computer History Museum
For those familiar with the streets of the SF Mission,
Bay Area Science Cafe
http://www.sciencecafesf.com/
http://www.atlascafe.net/
Lockheed
Martin Palo Alto Colloquia
NASA Ames Research Center
The NASA Exploration Center is open to the public free of charge. For information about the Exploration Center, please visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/home/exploration.html
To learn about other events hosted by NASA Ames, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/events/index.html
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