San Jose Astronomical Association July General Meeting
Saturday July 31, 2004, 8:00 pm
Tony Misch, support astronomer at Lick Observatory, will be the guest
speaker at this month's general meeting. Tony will be speaking on some of
the exciting new projects going on at Lick Observatory. Some of the topics
are the APF (Automatic Planet Finder) telescope, a new telescope control
interface at the Shane, "Two Weeks on Mars", an artistic exploration of
the Mars opposition through the "eye" of the Lick Refractor, and how the
Venus Transit of 1882 animation came to be. All meetings of the SJAA are
free and open to the public. We'll see you on Saturday.
Websites of Interest on Tonys Talk:
http://www.ucolick.org
http://www.ucsc.edu/oncampus/currents/98-99/03-01/kepler.htm
http://skyandtelescope.com/observing/objects/sun/article_1187_1.asp
http://mthamilton.ucolick.org/public/TwoWeeksOnMars/
The board of Directors for the SJAA will meet at 6:30 before the meeting.
Come share your thoughts on how the club is run.
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Directions to Houge Park:
Houge Park is in San Jose, near Campbell and Los Gatos.
>From Hwy.17, take the Camden Avenue exit. Go east 4/10 mile, and turn
right at the light, onto Bascom Avenue. At the next light, turn left onto
Woodard Road. At the first stop sign, turn right onto Twilight
Drive. Go three blocks, cross Sunrise Drive, then turn left into the park.
>From Hwy.85, take the Bascom Avenue exit. Go north 0.2 miles, and turn
right at the first traffic light, onto White Oaks Road. Run another 0.2
miles to the first stop sign, then turn left onto Twilight Drive. You will
now be passing the park. Turn right at the first driveway, into the
parking lot.
See Map at
http://www.sjaa.net/img/houge.jpg
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Clear Skies,
Mike Koop
President, SJAA
Email any comments, questions, or flames to
Koopm at best.com
Received on Thu Jul 29 13:26:38 2004
