Bristol Astronomy
Club
Meetings Summary 2008
January 11, 2008
A large turnout-- Terry gave a program about the various types of electronic-imaging eyepieces. He also showed us a few products that his new company is planning to offer. Tentative dicussion about haveing a public viewing session for the upcoming lunar eclipse in February-- no action was taken. Planning to mount the new CGE mount on the pier on Sunday afternoon, weather permitting.
February 8, 2008
Some of the regulars were there: Wayne M., John, and Mike G. There were a significant number of Kingsport folks including Terry, Mark, Mike C., and a few others. Al S. brought a friend (local vet I use for my cat and also a sailboat person) and they enjoyed seeing his adapter plate in action.
George F. (now living in Florida I think) was there. Wayne set up his new big Dob. Terry brought along a few image intensifiers including one he had made. It was very interesting to see M42 and M1 through the intensifiers.
The C14 is now mounted on the CGE mount and is working well for visual use-- still need to do some fine-tuning of the polar alignment before the CCD work begins.
Of course everyone had a look at Mars.
People talked late (about 10:00 PM or so) primarily visiting with George.
March 7, 2008
Tonight the Bristol Club held a joint meeting along with the Bays Mountain Astronomy Club. The meeting was held at ETSU's Harry Powell Observatory.
Gary Henson gave a very good talk about the ETSU facility and their plans for the future. he also mentioned that three other small universiies had joined SARA and so they were going to be able to gain time on a 24-inch telescope at Cerro Tololo in Chile.
Cloudy (as usual) so we did not have the opportunity to do any observing..
April 11, 2008
A sparse crowd attended tonight's meeting. Terry spoke about the telescope that the Greeneville 4-H camp had come into possession of. Tom gave a presentation about the BAC website. Jon told the group about the large TMB refractor that he had recently purchased. Wayne gave his new Meade "MySky" a try. Poor weather so no observing was done.
June 13, 2008.
Had a good crowd. Discussed websites of interest to the amatuer astronomer. The club decied that they would help with a viewing session at the 4H camp at Abingdon in early August. Following the meeting, we went out and looked through the C14 at Mars, and Saturn.
May 9, 2008
Terry gave a presentatation about his recent trip to NEAF in Rockland, NY. Clear skies following the talk so we had a good viewing session with the C14.
