Meeting Materials
This page contains items of interest from recent membership meetings and includes links to actual presentations and websites referenced during the meeting. We encourage anyone to come out to our meetings. Directions can be found on the Meetings page.
The material is organized with the most recent meeting first. Please scroll down this page to see all of the material available. Note that the links on this page were active at the time of the meeting and may have since become broken links.
Tuesday, April 18, 2006
The web site with detailed information on the fragments of Comet 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann is:
http://www.skyhound.com/sh/73P.php
The following links were provided at the end of Dr. Baylis' talk:
http://solar-eclipse-2006.info/
http://www.spaceweather.com/eclipses/gallery_29mar06.htm
http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/media/spotlight/eclipse/
http://www.nasa.gov/vision/universe/solarsystem/sun_earthday2006.php
http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/50482
http://www.pbase.com/gbachmayer/tse2006
http://skyandtelescope.com/observing/objects/eclipses/article_1706_1.asp
Tuesday, March 21, 2006
The site for information on outdoor lighting that was featured in a recent S&T article that Dan mentioned is: http://starrynightlights.com/
Also, some suggestions from Dan on approaching your favourite outdoor light supplier:
- Bring a picture
- Try to get past the shelf jockey and talk to the manager
- Look up stock lines via the internet before approaching the store (it is much easier if existing supplier lines are used) or get some examples from http://starrynightlights.com/
- Request a price/place an order
- Bring cash - important (money does talk)
- May lead to LPA stock on shelves
- In the future share your experiences, add suggestions
