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Doyle Conner Building
1911 S.W. 34th Street (at S.W. 20th Avenue)
Gainesville, Alachua County, Florida USA
- All monthly meetings are free and open to the public
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- The AAC Executive Council also meets the first Tuesday of the month
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DATE (1997) GUEST SPEAKER TITLE OR TOPIC
January 14 Dr. Humberto Campins Comet Hale-Bopp February 11 Dr. Kwan-Yu Chen The Calendar of Eastern Asia March 11 Dr. George R. Lebo The Hubble Space Telescope April 08 Mr. Donald P Loftus Everything You Wanted to Know About the Moon, But Were Afraid to Ask! May 13 Mr. Randy Palmer Barn Door Photography June 10 Nat'l Geographic Video Asteroids: Deadly Impactt July 08 Mr. John Brandorff Monsters of the Milky Way August 12 Dr. Howard L. Cohen The Telescopes on Mars Hill: A Personal View September 09 Dr. John P. Oliver Calendars and You October 14 Dr. Elizabeth Lada Let There Be Light—Investigating Star Birth Formation November 11 Mr. Donald P. Loftus How to Buy a Telescope & Mr. Chuck Broward December 13 None (Holiday Party) Help Celebrate Our 10th Anniversary
Details of 1997 Meetings
Tuesday, January 14, 1997
Speaker --
7:30 p.m. EST
Dr. Humberto Campins,
Associate Professor of Astronomy and Director of the Florida Space Grant Consortium (FSGC),
Department of Astronomy, University of Florida
Title: Comet Hale-Bopp
Preview: Comet Hale-Bopp is coming! In 1996 we had Hyakutake but 1997 brings one of the largest and intrinsically brightest comets in recent years. Dr. Humberto Campins will preview this upcoming event and discuss the impact that bright but rare comets have had on humans. Comet Hale-Bopp should become easily visible to the naked eye in late March and early April, providing amateur and professional astronomers with an unusual opportunity to study one of these objects.
Humberto Campins, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Arizona, 1982. Dr. Campins is an associate professor of astronomy at the University of Florida. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Arizona in 1982. Since November 1994 he has been director of the Florida Space Grant Consortium (FSGC). The FSGC is a collaboration between NASA and 15 Florida Universities and Colleges that promotes education, research and university-industry collaboration in space related topics. Dr. Campins' research interest is principally the study of comets, asteroids and star formation regions using infrared observational techniques.
Tuesday, February 11, 1997
Speaker --
7:30 p.m. EDT
Dr. Kwan-Yu Chen, Professor of Astronomy,
Department of Astronomy, University of Florida
Title: The Calendar of Eastern Asia
Preview: The Chinese New Year begins February 7 (Year of the Ox). Dr. Kwan-Yu Chen, Professor of Astronomy, University of Florida will discuss "The Calendar of Eastern Asia" and its origins in ancient China. Derived from life in an agricultural society, this lunisolar calendar is related to seasonal variations of the weather.
Tuesday, March 11, 1997
Speaker --
7:30 p.m. EDT
Dr. George R. Lebo, Associate Professor of Astronomy,
Department of Astronomy, University of Florida
Title: The Hubble Space Telescope
Preview: NASA plans to revisit the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) in mid-February for a servicing mission. Why is the HST so much better than ground-based instruments? Dr. Lebo will tell us why and show pictures of its development, launch and subsequent repair. He also has many view-graphs with pictures taken by the HST.
Tuesday, April 8, 1997
Speaker --
7:30 p.m. EDT
Mr. Donald P. Loftus, Coordinator of Broadcasting,
Division of Instructional Resources, University of Florida
Title: Everything You Wanted to Know About the Moon, But Were Afraid to Ask!
Preview: Have you ever wondered what the Moon is really made of, how craters formed or why the Moon always points one side toward Earth? Mr. Loftus will address these questions and others in in a "comprehensive" talk on our nearest astronomical neighbor, the Moon.
Tuesday, May 13, 1997
Speaker --
7:30 p.m. EDT
Mr. Randy Palmer, AAC Star Party Coordinator
Title: Barn Door Photography
Preview: Mr. Randy Palmer, club star party coordinator, will give some very practical advice on capturing the night sky on film in a talk titled, "Barn Door Photography." Included will be constructing the barn door drive, camera requirements, film types, and night time techniques. Weather permitting, actual exposures will be made from the building's parking lot.
Tuesday, June 10, 1997
Speaker --
7:30 p.m. EDT
"The National Geographic Society"
Title: Asteroids: Deadly Impact
Preview: We will watch a sixty minute National Geographic Special first presented earlier this year on network television. Although several TV programs have appeared in the last year about asteroid and comet impacts, this one heads the list. Join Eugene Shoemaker and his wife Carolyn, who are experts on astrogeology and have remapped the heavens with their discoveries of more than 30 comets and hundreds of asteroids, as they explore cosmic collisions with the Earth. (The Shoemakers are codiscoverers with Donald. Levy of Comet Shoemaker-Levy that impacted Jupiter.) Dr. Shoemaker was also the first scientist to definitively show Meteor Crater in Arizona is an impact feature and not a volcanic caldera.
Tuesday, July 8, 1997
Speaker --
7:30 p.m. EDT
Mr. John Brandorff, AAC President
Title: Monsters of the Milky Way
Preview: Slides of our galaxies great nebulae.
Tuesday, August 12, 1997
Dr. Howard L. Cohen, Associate Professor of Astronomy,
7:30 p.m. EDT -- Guest Speaker
Department of Astronomy, University of Florida
Title:The Telescopes of Mars Hill: A Personal View
Preview: Stunning color slides will show pictures of the largest and best known, privately managed astronomical observatory in the world. These photographs, taken during the 1960's at the Lowell Observatory (Flagstaff, Arizona), depict instruments, some no longer in existence, that marked over a half century of exciting observation and discovery -- findings that would thrust the search for extraterrestrial life into the forefront of public controversy, reveal the existence of a new planet, demonstrate we live in an expanding universe, furnish data on planetary temperatures, and establish one of the primary photometric systems universally used in astronomy today.
Tuesday, September 9, 1997
Dr. John P. Oliver, Associate Professor of Astronomy,
7:30 p.m. EDT -- Guest Speaker
Department of Astronomy, University of Florida
Title: Calendars and You
Preview: A general talk about calendars and related topics. How much do you know about our calendar? Will the year 2000 be a Leap Year? What about the Hebrew, Islamic, and Chinese enumeration of days? And for the big question . . . WSWCM (When Should We Celebrate the Millennium)?
Tuesday, October 14, 1997
Dr. Elizabeth Lada, Assistant Professor of Astronomy,
7:30 p.m. EDT -- Guest Speaker
Department of Astronomy, University of Florida
Title: Let There Be Light—Investigating Star Birth Formation
Preview: Recent advances in radio and infrared technology have begun to unravel one of astronomy's most fundamental, unsolved mysteries—how stars and their planets form. Peer into dark, cold and dusty stellar nurseries with Dr. Lada as we examine many of the surprising discoveries made in the last decade about the star forming process.
Tuesdays, November 11, 1997
Mr. Chuck Broward, Coastal Engineering, University of Florida and
7:30 p.m. EDT -- Guest Speakers
Mr. Donald P. Loftus, Coordinator of Broadcasting,
Division of Instructional Resources, University of Florida
Title: How to Really Buy a Telescope!
Preview: Holiday season is coming and telescope sales peak. Learn what to buy and what not to buy. AAC Treasurer Don Loftus and FirstLight Publisher Chuck Broward will review the secrets of buying a good telescope. AAC members are encouraged to bring their scopes to show.
December 13, 1997
Time: 6:00 p.m. EST
Place: Bob Jacobs House
Speaker: None but lots of fun!
Title: "Holiday Party" and Celebration of AAC's 10th Birthday!
Preview: AAC will hold its annual December holiday party -- a potluck dinner and star party at Bob Jacobs. (There will be no regular Tuesday meeting in December.) Bring a salad, veggie, dessert, etc. Club will buy drinks and roast beef.
Last year we celebrated the 45th birthday of Tycho Brahe. This year we celebrate our club's 10th anniversary. Games and lots of prizes!
Bring your scopes. Begins approximately at sunset (5:32 p.m. EST). Lasts till whenever. However, the moon will be full so bring your filters too! (Moon rise at 5:34 p.m. EST).
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