MemphisAstro

Due to the snow, CBU has canceled all campus activities. See you in April.

WOW! I have just discovered “Astronomy podcasts”. These are great.

I recently rejoined the gym and got an mp3 player to listen to FM radio and my vast collection of CDs that I have “ripped” to mp3 files. Well, I got bored with my music collection pretty quick and was looking at audible books and other media and decided to give podcasts a try. These are basically short stories that are available for FREE on the internet. Well, it turns out there is some great content available on the subject of Astronomy.

I think I can get some links up here on the blog.

Roy Tucker, a former member of the MAS, will be the speaker at the August meeting. There’s an article about amateur asteroid hunters, of whom he is apparently the dean, in Discover magazine and on their website: http://discovermagazine.com/2007/jul/the-asteroid-hunters

If the weather permits, we will have our semi-annual public observing session at Village Creek State Park near Forrest City, AR this coming Saturday, May 19th at 7:30 pm at the Park’s Visitor Center. The public is encouraged to attend.

Call Ric Honey at 901-218-5578 for details.

Dr. Verschuur is a well known pioneer and author in the field of radio astronomy. Among his books is the recently published The Invisible Universe: The Story of Radio Astronomy.
In addition to his seven books on the subject, he has published numerous research papers and articles, and holds several patents. He has spoken to audiences throughout the world, lecturing widely on astronomical topics.
Dr. Verschuur will be speaking on the subject of Radio Astronomy as well as discussing several of the remaining issues in Cosmology.

The members of the MAS are invited to attend the May Meeting of the Memphis Archaeological and Geology Society. The program “Meteorites: Clues to Solving Mysteries of the Solar System” will be presented by James Hill of the Rainwater Observatory.
The Meeting will be held on Friday May 11th at 7:30 P.M. at Shady Grove Presbyterian Church
located at 5330 Shady Grove Road. Directions are available on their web site
http://www.memphisgeology.org/directions.htm

Hi all,

I read on the calendar that the French Camp will be from 4-11 to 4-14, I have never been on one of these events, even when I imagine that it will be explained on the next general meeting, would like to have more information on how these camps work and what are the plans this year. 

I have established an email distribution group on Google Groups. Hopefully this will replace our current email list and allow the members to subscribe or un-subscribe to email notices as they please. You can sign up at:
http://groups.google.com/group/MemphisAstro

Well, it appears that there are some spamers using ‘bots’ to set up accounts on our forum for the purposes of spaming us.

IF YOU WANT AN ACCOUNT FOR REASONS OTHER THAN SPAM, PLEASE MAKE SURE TO USE A RECOGNIZABLE NAME AS YOUR USER ID. IF I DON’T KNOW YOU, I WILL SEND AN EMAIL REQUESTING THAT YOU IDENTIFY YOURSELF. IF YOU DO NOT, I WILL DELETE THE ACCOUNT.

Thanks and sorry if you don’t like it…. NOT!

Ric Honey