Information about past Events
The following pages list summaries of the information presented in the Events/Meetings.
Following is a chronological listing of all non-archived meetings and events descriptions with links to the presentations when available, meeting minutes, multimedia and other information about the event.
2012 Events
- 2012-04-21 Chapter Meeting,
Click here for Meeting Minutes. A great meeting with the feature presentation “The Mass of Super-Massive Black Holes” presented by chapter member Annette Michel, followed by Steve Phillips “This Month’s Sky, April 2012″. Cloudy weather prevented the observing session after the meeting.Click here for some pictures - 2012-03-24 Chapter Potluck Dinner Meeting and Observing,
Click here for Meeting Minutes. Another great “Dinner and a Movie” meeting where we watched the BBC production: “Stargazing” followed by Steve Phillips “This Month’s Sky, for March and April 2012″. After the meeting observing with visitors from the AOC as well as students from GWA, who saw the beautiful conjunction of the crescent moon, Venus and Jupiter and other deep sky objects.Click here for some pictures - 2012-02-16 Chapter Meeting,
Click here for Meeting Minutes. Another great meeting with the feature presentation “Marathon_Du_Messier-StarHopping-2-16-2012″ presented by the AAC’s Board Chairman Dan Herron, followed by Steve Phillips “This Month’s Sky, February 2012″. Rainy weather prevented the observing session after the meeting.Click here for some pictures - 2012-01-21 Chapter Meeting,
Click here for Meeting Minutes. A great meeting with the feature presentation “Push To” presented by chapter member Steven Siedentop, followed by Steve Phillips “This Month’s Sky, January 2012″. Storms prevented the observing session after the meeting.Click here for some pictures
2011 Events
- 2011-12-17 Chapter Potluck Dinner Meeting and Observing
Click here for Meeting Minutes. A great potluck dinner meeting during which we showed the APOD pictures of 2011. Dinner was followed by Steve Phillips “December 2011 - Observing 101″. With clear but cold skies, a good crowd made it to the “Jon Wood Astronomy Field”, to observe an ISS pass, the Spy plane and a number night sky objects. A cold but beautiful night sky. Click here for some pictures - 2011-11-05 Chapter Meeting, Observing and AOC Outreach
Click here for Meeting Minutes. A great meeting with the feature presentation “Saturn” presented by Dr. Julius Benton, followed by Steve Phillips “November 2011 - Observing 101″. With clear skies, a large crows with 19 telescopes and binos made it to the “Jon Wood Astronomy Field”, to observe 2 ISS passes and the transit of the GRS and Io on Jupiter in the beautiful night sky. Click here for some pictures - 2011-10-22 Chapter Meeting, Observing
Click here for Meeting Minutes. A great meeting with the feature presentation presented by Frank Garner and Larry Owens, reviewing how to properly setup an equatorial mount, followed by Steve Phillips “October 2011 - Observing 101″. With clear skies, members of the chapter made it to the “Jon Wood Astronomy Field”, to onserve the beautiful night sky. Click here for some pictures - 2011-09-24 Chapter Meeting, Observing
Click here for Meeting Minutes. A great potluck dinner meeting with the feature presentation presented by Clay S. Turner: “Astro Photo Talk” (images (c) C Turner), a short update on our Outreach and AL activities, followed by Steve Phillips “September 2011 - Observing 101″. With clear skies, members of the chapter with a lot of scopes and 3 binos made it to the new “Jon Wood Astronomy Field”, where a large group of students and parents of the Stone Mountain Middle School joined us for observing Click here for some pictures - 2011-08-27 Chapter Meeting, Observing and Observing Field Dedication
Click here for Meeting Minutes. A great meeting with the feature presentation presented by Dr. Richard Schmude: “Jupiter’s in 2010 and 2011″. , followed by Steve Phillips “August 2011 - Observing 101″ and Theo Ramakers’ “Remembering Jon Wood” presentation to celebrate the dedication of our Observing Field to our late Chapter Observing Supervisor and dear friend: Jon Wood. With clear skies, members of the chapter with 25 scopes and 3 binos made it to the new “Jon Wood Astronomy Field”. What a way to celebrate the dedication of the field to our late friend!Click here for some pictures - 2011-07-30 Chapter Meeting and Observing
Click here for Meeting Minutes. A great meeting with the feature presentation presented by Rich Jakiel: “Imaging on a Budget”. , followed by Steve Phillips “July 2011 - Observing 101″. Despite the clouds, 16 individuals made it with 7 scopes and a few binoculars to the observing field. Click here for some pictures - 2011-07-02 Chapter Meeting and Observing
Click here for Meeting Minutes. A great meeting with the feature presentation presented by Ken Poshedly: “The Moon, what you won’t see tonight”, followed by Larry Owens: “Imaging the Moon”. Steve Phillips presented his “July 2011 - Observing 101″. Despite the clouds, 14 individuals made it with 6 scopes to the observing field. Click here for some pictures - 2011-06-04 Chapter Meeting and Observing
Click here for Meeting Minutes. A great meeting with the election of a new chapter director and the feature presentation by Marie Lott: The NSN presentation “Stargazers, Starfarers and Kepler”. Steve Phillips presented his “June 2011 - Observing 101″. Again a large number of scopes at Jon Wood’s field let all visitors especially the young once see “what’s up there”. Click here for some pictures - 2011-05-07 Chapter Meeting and Observing
Click here for Meeting Minutes. A great meeting with 29 members and vistors in attendance. 5 Short sessions were presented: NSN tool kits - Frank Garner, Imaging the Sun - Theo Ramakers, The Denver Chair - Dan Schmitt, Planning with AstroPlanner - Steven Phillips and Considerations for Deepsky imaging - Tim Geib. Steven Phillips presented his “May 2011 - Observing 101″. The meeting closed with the elections of the new board. A large number of scopes (16) at Jon Wood’s field let everyone see “what’s up there”, while at 9:11 the ISS honered us with a close pass of the moon. Click here for some pictures - 2011-04-02 Chapter Meeting and Observing
Click here for Meeting Minutes. A great meeting with the feature presentation by Jim Soboleski: “Supernova”. Eric Bozeman presented his “April 2011 - Observing 101″. The meeting closed with the documentary: “A universe of their own“. A large number of scopes at Jon Wood’s field let all visitors see “what’s up there”. Click here for some pictures - 2011-03-05 Chapter Meeting, Observing cancelled because of weather conditions
Click here for Meeting Minutes. A great Potluck dinner and the Feature Presentation: A National Geographic Movie “Journey to the Edge of the Universe”. Steve Phillips presented his “March 2011 - Observing 101″ . Click here for some pictures - 2011-02-05 Chapter Meeting, Observing cancelled because of weather conditions
Click here for Meeting Minutes. Feature Presentation: “Imaging the Unusual” by theo Ramakers, followed by Theo Ramakers’ Current Events in Astronomy and Space Exploration (16MB movie), and Steve Phillips’ “February 2011 - Observing 101″ . Click here for some pictures - 2011-01-08 Chapter Meeting, Observing and Monroe Area High School outreach
Click here for Meeting Minutes. Feature Presentation: “Meteorites” by Anita Westlake, followed by Theo Ramakers’ Current Events in Astronomy and Space Exploration (14MB movie), a review movie of the chapter’s Images of the Month for 2010. and Steve Phillips’ “January 2011 - Observing 101″ . Following the meeting the students from Monroe Area High School joined us for deep sky observing Click here for some pictures
2010 Events
- 2010-12-04 Potluck dinner Chapter Meeting
Click here for Meeting Minutes. Theo Ramakers’ “Current Events” presentation was followed by the Feature Presentation: “AINT” Ancient INovation and Technology by Rich Jakiel, and Steve Phillips’ “December 2010 - Observing 101″ . Because of the clouds and rain, observing was cancelled. Click here for some pictures - 2010-11-06 Chapter Meeting and Atlanta Outdoor Club outreach
Click here for Meeting Minutes. Feature Presentation: “The Howl-een Hunt list: 13 of the Unluckiest Heavenly Objects”by Phil Sacco, followed by Theo Ramakers’ Current Events in Astronomy and Space Exploration (20MB movie) and Steve Phillips’ “November 2010 - Observing 101″ . Following the meeting the Atlanta Outdoor club as well as 10 students from GPC joined us for deep sky observing Click here for some pictures - 2010-10-02 GWA Outreach and Chapter Meeting
Click here for Meeting Minutes. Feature Presentation: Binaries and Conspiracies by Stephen Ramsden Current Events in Astronomy and Space Exploration and Steve Phillips’ “October - Observing 101″ . Following the meeting 40 GWA students and parents joined us for deep sky observing Click here for some pictures - 2010-09-11 Potluck dinner Meeting
Click here for Meeting Minutes. We watched the NASA movie of the mission to Pluto: “NewHorizons”, followed by Theo’s Current Events in Astronomy and Space Exploration and Steve Phillips’ “September - Observing 101″ . No observing at Jon Woods Field after the meeting because of storms passing through. Click here for some pictures - 2010-08-07 Chapter Meeting and Observing
Click here for Meeting Minutes. Theo Ramakers did present his “Building your own Observatory” and a review of alternate designs followed by “August - Observing 101″ by Steve Phillips, and observing at Jon Woods Field after the meeting. Click here for some pictures - 2010-07-10 Chapter Meeting and Observing
Click here for Meeting Minutes. Phil Sacco did present his “Something out of Nothing” followed by “July - Observing 101″ by Steve Phillips. - 2010-06-12 Chapter Potluck Dinner Meeting
Click here for the Meeting minutes; Lecture: “Jupiter” - Presented by Richard Schmude Jr., the executive director of ALPO. Following the feature presentation, Theo Ramakers presented the Master Outreach Award from the Astronomical League to Stephen Ramsden. The award ceremony was followed by Theo’s Current Events in Astronomy and Space Exploration for June 2010 . Steven Phillips presented his “Observing 101″ for June. Click here for pictures of the meeting. - 2010-05-15 Chapter Meeting and Observing
Click here for Meeting Minutes. We did screen the new NASA movie: A Journey to the Stars” followed by May - Observing 101 by Steve Bieger, also the Filter Reference Chart; and Current Events by Theo Ramakers. A demonstration of how to align an EQ mount without being able to view Polaris and a review of two Night Sky Network kits was presented by Frank Garner. Click here for some pictures of the meeting. - 2010-04-17 Chapter Meeting and Observing
Click here for Meeting Minutes. Several mini sessions: Website review - Theo Ramakers; The “Byers Galaxi Owens” Recap of the project to build the 16″ Telescope - Larry Owens; Guiding for Astro Imaging - Tim Geib. April 2010 Observing 101 - Steve Bieger; Current Events - Theo Ramakers. Click here for some pictures of the meeting. - 2010-04-16 Hightower Trail Elementary school, Conyers GA
Frank, Annette, Pierre, Jimmy, Milena and Theo responded for the 6th annual “Space Camp” at Hightower Trail Elementary. Check the Outreach page for more information and click here for some images of the event. - 2010-03-20 Anna Ruby Falls, Helen GA
Solar Event at Anna Ruby falls, possibly our largest event so far. Almost 1000 people came by as a number of our members showed the sun to the visitors through our telescopes. Visit the Outreach page for more info and click here for some pictures of the event. - 2010-03-13 Chapter Potluck Dinner Meeting
Click here for Meeting Minutes; Lecture: “Our Sun” - Presented by Stephen Ramsden. Following the feature presentation, Theo Ramakers presented his Current Events in Astronomy and Space Exploration for February 2010 and March 2010 and Steve Bieger presented his “Observing 101″ for March. Jim Soboleski made a presentationabout his DOB project and several members were presented with awards. Click here for pictures of the meeting. - 2010-02-18 Pucketts Mill elementary school, Dacula GA
Frank Garner and Theo Ramakers responded for a Star Party at Pucketts Mill Elementary School at their Science Night. Check the Outreach page for more information and click here for some images of the event and click the thumbnail for the full sized picture. - 2010-02-16 Scout troop 211 - Covington, GA at Charlie Elliott
Wow what an event. Stephen Ramsden, Steve Bieger, Frank Garner, Jim Soboleski, Steve Kennedy and Theo Ramakers showed Covington’s Scout troop 211 the moon, the orion nebula, Mars, and some open and globular clusters. See our Outreach page for more info and Click here for some images of the event. - 2010-02-13 Chapter Meeting and Observing - Cancelled
Click on the link here to find out why the meeting was cancelled. You still can watch the presentation by William Shea about Gallileo, by clicking this link to the website of the Burlington House. - 2010-02-10 Ficquett Elementary School - Covington, GA Solar Event
Frank Garner and Theo went back to the 4th grade science class of Mrs Kristen Emerson for a Solar event. Check the Outreach section for more information and Click here for some pictures of the event. - 2010-02-01 Ficquett Elementary School - Covington, GA
Frank Garner and Theo did an event for the 4th grade science class of Mrs Kristen Emerson. Frank presented the Solar system presentation, and explained how Telescope work using our telescope toolkit. Students who answered questions correctly received photos of different planets of the solarsystem. Finally Theo showed them some movies from the impact scar of Jupiter, Comet Holmes and the two missions of Columbus as well as some solar flares made by Frank and Theo a few weeks ago. Thanks to Mrs. Emerson for letting us come and demonstrate some of the features of our solar system. Click here for some pictures of the event. - 2010-01-22 Morgan County Middle School, Madison GA
Frank Garner and Theo Ramakers did the first outreach event of the year for the Astronomy class of Mrs. Heather Elo at the Morgan County Middle School in Madison. The Students saw a presentation on our Solar system while Theo set up the Telescope demonstration using the glass and mirrors tool kit. The students received pictures of the different plantes if they had the answer to the questions posted. Theo finally took the students on a flight through the solar system and they did visit a number of planets and some of their strange moons from a viewpoint you only can get from a space craft that orbits a planet, or moon. Click here for pictures of the event. - 2010-01-16 Memorial Service
Our monthly meeting was cancelled because of a conflict with the memorial service of Jonathan Wood, our Observing Supervisor since 2008. The following members attended the memorial service in the Lutheran Church on Brocket Road in Tucker: Carlos and Olga Flores, Stephen and Nathalie Ramsden, Steve Phillips, Mary Lott, Jim Soboleski, Dan Schmitt, Dale Harrison, Brigitte Fessele, Alesia Rast, Julie Duncan, Larry Carswell, Ken and Justin Poshedley, Theo and Romaine Ramakers. Art Zorka and Steve Bieger were on out of State travel and sent their condolences. During the service Theo Ramakers and Stephen Ramsden reflected on Jonathan as a member of the Charlie Elliott chapter.
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