MAS
Feb 05th, 2009

Monthly meetings of the Minnesota Astronomical Society are held on the first Thursday of the month from 7:00 pm until 9:00 pm. Visitors and guests are welcome to the meeting as well as MAS members.

Feb 5th, 2009
Speaker: MAS Treas : Bob Benson
Topic: Approve MAS budget

Location: Fairview Community Center, Roseville MN

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Observing Orion
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Observing Orion Bill Kochen
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Bill invites everybody to the Messier Marathon 116kb PPT file
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Merle's IYA On the Shoulder's of Giants Music Video
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Merle's IYA On the Shoulder's of Giants Music Video
(version 2) TRT: 3:36 75.7Mb quicktime movie

Get a free Powerpoint 2003 viewer program from Microsoft here. 1.9 meg file

Monthly meetings of the Minnesota Astronomical Society are held on the first Thursday of the month from 7:00 pm until 9:00 pm. Visitors and guests are welcome to the meeting as well as MAS members.

Upcoming meetings:
March 5th, 2009
Speaker: Chris Davidson
Topic: Eta Carina Update
Location: Fairview Community Center, Roseville MN

April 2nd, 2009
Speaker: Vuk Mandic
Topic: Lygo Satellite

May 7th, 2009
Speaker: Megan Karejny
Topic: Microwave Analysis of Proto Stellar Disks

Previous MAS Meetings :
Jan 2007 : Local Group of Galaxies
Feb 2007 : Amateur Astronomy Research
Mar 2007 : Canceled due to Snow Storm
Apr 2007 : Catastrphic Novas
May 2007 : UFOs Physical Trace Research
Jun 2007 : Infrared Observations with the Spitzer Space Telescope
Jul 2007 : Catastrophic Variables & M1
Aug 2007 : Student Astronomy Experiments
Sep 2007 : Asteroids
Oct 2007 : The 280 Mpc Void in Eridanus -- Contemplating the Void
Nov 2007 : Observing the 'Ain't No' objects
Dec 2007 : Tour of National Maritime Museum / Royal Greenwich Observatory

Jan 2008 : Visual Variable Star Observing Is Fun
Feb 2008 : Exploring the Moon and Mars in Utah?
Mar 2008 : Ongoing Monitoring of Classical Novae and U of MN Outreach program Universe in the Park
Apr 2008 : Viewing and Imaging in the SW USA
May 2008 : The Local Group of Galaxies: A Voyage Within Our Nearest Universe
June 2008 : Demonstrating mirror testing techniques
July 2008 : Onan Tour
August 2008 : committee and observing site reports, "Contemporary Lab Experiences in Astronomy, an Overview of Available Software part 2" and a general discussion of MAS plans and goals.
Sept 2008 :General discussion of MAS plans and goals
Oct 2008 :First Look at Stardust's Comet Cargo
Nov 2008 :The Vatican and Astronomy (video presentation)
Dec 2008 :Numerical Simulations of AGN Jets

Jan 2009 :Astro League Observing Programs & Obsevation Planning and Processing

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