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Hey all astronomy
clubbers! We now have a website!
Tonight, after a flurry of work, both the newsletter AND the website are
up! Much of the information in the
newsletter will now be on the website as well, but the website will only have
the most recent information, so check your newsletters for the older things!
Also, the site will contain a majority of astronomy and space-related
sites from now on, to save space in our member’s email inboxes. You can visit the site here: URL
I was offered a
chance to tour the UMSL department of Physics and Astronomy Friday, March 25th,
having been invited by Dr. Bruce Wilking, department chair.
He gave me a guided tour around campus, which included a look at UMSL’s
very own planetarium. A small, 20’ high dome seating 36 people seemed perfect for
our organization; when I said as much to Dr. Wilking, he agreed and invited us
to use it during the day some time, when the faculty was still there.
Our next day off is April 19th, a half day.
We get out of school around 12:15, 12:45 with traffic, and with a
forty-five minute to an hour trip to UMSL, we can expect to be there by 2:00 PM.
I’ll be in touch with Dr. Wilking to confirm these plans.
We have also been
invited to a series of open houses at the UMSL Richard D. Schwartz Observatory.
The dates, times, and objects of interest are as follows:
| Saturday, April 16th, 8:30 PM | Saturn, Jupiter, Orion Nebula, Globular Cluster M 3 |
| Saturday, May 14th, 9:00 PM | Saturn, Jupiter, Hercules Cluster, M 81 Galaxy |
| Saturday, June 18th, 9:00 PM | Jupiter, Hercules Cluster, Asteroid ‘1 Ceres,’ Ring Nebula |
Also, we may have the opportunity to attend a St. Louis Astronomical Society meeting, April 15th, held at Washington University. We’ll try to confirm that date soon.
Each meeting here on
out will begin with a trivia question at 3:15 PM sharp. Correct answers will be rewarded with increasingly valuable
and cool prizes, ranging from candy to astronomy stuff (posters, mugs, shirts,
etc.)! All are welcome to
participate, and prizes for the winner(s) are absolutely free just for showing
up, courtesy of the Astronomy Club.
Also, new is the
“Astronomical Person of the Month.” Each
month between the first and the fifteenth (i.e. April 1st through
April 15th), nominations via email or slips of paper will be
accepted, secret ballot style. The
newsletter editor and I excluded, anyone else in the world of astronomy or the
astronomy club is eligible, at least for the month of April.
The winner will be determined after all votes have been recounted too
many times to make a difference (just like a real election!), and will get
special mention in the next newsletter AND on the website.
To be counted, votes must be specific and named by the person voting.
So get those votes out!
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