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Currently, we meet often at various locations and at telescope observation sites. Call one of the people below (or e-mail one of us) for the exact time of the next meeting and for more precise directions. We welcome visitors.
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two-character sequence manually and delete spacing before actually attempting to
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Meetings / Upcoming Events
Regular meetings are held on the first Thursday of the month at 6:30pm.
Thur Jun 2
- Regular Meeting
- [Notional] Discuss scheduling of schools for this fall.
Thurs, Sept 1 meeting provisionally planned
Meeting Location
Regular meetings are held at the Science and Discovery Center located at 308 Airport Rd, near the intersection of Jenks and Airport Road. Usually, we meet in the old Junior Museum building. Park in Airport Rd lot and walk to old building on Jenks through iron gate and gazebo. See map (loads slowly). Park at the building NW of Wilson funeral home and walk to the diamond-shaped roof.
Updates
New article (presentation I did about three years ago) about graphical almanacs under [Articles] tab.
Web Links
www.stellarium.org - A free planetarium program, well worth the price!
www.heavens-above.com - A great site for tracking satellites and the space station.
www.skyandtelescope.com - Sky and Telescope magazine.
www.cloudynights.com - Cloudy nights telescope reviews.
www.telescopejunkies.com - Astronomy forum site. Lots of stuff on astrophotography.
www.calsky.com - Astronomy calculator and graphical almanac site.
www.cleardarksky.com - Sky condition predictions for Panama City
www.spaceweather.com - Current Solar Information
www.xkcd.com - XKCD Comic Strip
Club Telescopes
The telescopes will be used as an educational resource and for club Star Parties. When not being used for official club
business, members in good standing will be able to check out the scopes for personal use.
Picture(s) of the Month
Milky Way Aquila to Sagittarius
Photo by Bob Hess. Annotation by Dick Suiter
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Last updated 11 Aug 2016
