Approximately 33 members and friends attended the April meeting. John Towne opened the meeting with an overview followed by the outreach summary for March by Theo Ramakers. Ken Poshedly discussed ALPO again as an introduction to Julius Benton presentation “ALPO and Saturn“. Julius is the ALPO Section Coordinator for Saturn. A great presentation followed by some interesting questions. Theo Ramakers took all on a trip through the CEA website CEAstronomy.org so that all were aquainted with the resourses available. Two members made a donation of a telescope to CEA’s outreach program, Jack Fitzmier did donate an ETX125 and Evan Phillips at 9 years became the youngest donor by donating his desktop telescope since he started to use his dad’s. This is great!!! Thanks Evan and Jack for the generous donations. Jack Fitzmier did a book review of Mike Brown’s “Why I killed Pluto” and John Towne’s very interesting “What’s Up” for April concluded a great meeting.
Following the meeting a dozen of die-hard attendees made it to the JWF to take a look at Jupiter and the Moon through the 10″ and high clouds. Never the less, a very nice session. Click thumbnail for images of the meeting.