Rainwater E-News 2/4/08
FEBRUARY 8 MEETING STARTS EARLY: COME AT 6PM
Rachel Ross, the education outreach director for Las Cumbres Global Telescope Network, will show us how to use the free Stellarium desktop planetarium software at this meeting. The software can be used to plan observing sessions. She will also introduce us the resources of the LCO network. This meeting will begin at the observatory at 6pm and then move to the computer lab at French Camp. This meeting will be part of “Bringing Astronomy to the Classroom” workshop
COMING PROGRAMS (Contact us to arrange a program at Rainwater or in your community.)
February 5: Meridian Community College, 6pm Presentation on Dark Matter and Dark Energy February 15-16: Memphis Boy Scouts at Rainwater
February 18: Greenlee Elementary at Rainwater
February 21: Full Moon and Total lunar eclipse.
February 23: Oxford Boy Scouts
“Spring Backyard Astronomy” 7pm Friday evenings in March, 2008. We’ll have a different speaker each session: Tim Rich, from Rust College, Gary Lazich from the Davis Planetarium, David Teske from Louisville and Jim Hill will be presenters. Registration and info at http://www.rainwaterobservatory.org/programs/backyard.html
Mid-South Star Gaze will be April 2-5, 2008. The registration form is up on the web site. Details and speakers will be added. http://www.rainwaterobservatory.org/stargaze/regform.html
Astronomy for Teachers: June 8-13 at Rainwater. 3 semester hours credit. www.outreach.olemiss.edu/teachers 662-915-7621 for info
Johannes Kepler’s Astronomy workshop: June 15-20, 4 CEU units. www.johanneskepler.org
NEWS FROM THE HILL
The weather has been typical Mississippi winter with lots of clouds lately so observing has been sporadic. Delivery of the new scope is still on schedule for the last week in March and we still need to put the 20 and 32 inch scopes back in operation if there is ever a free weekend.
ASTRO NEWS: If you have info or links you’d like to share, let us know.
Saturn Explorer: JPL has put up an interactive program so you can take a virtual tour of Saturn as seen from the Cassini spacecraft. It takes about 15 meg of space to install, but it’s worth it now that Saturn is in the evening sky. Check it out at http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/CASSIE/
More on MESSENGER at Mercury: http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/080204-mm-mercury.html Also http://www.astronomy.com/asy/default.aspx?c=a&id=6536 In addition to this article, we taped the NASA news conference about the flyby and have it in our library to check out.
Orion: A nice intro to the main constellation of winter for kids can be found at http://www.universetoday.com/2008/02/01/night-lights-astronomy-for-kids-discovering-orion/
Will the Earth Survive the Sun’s Red Giant Phase: See the latest calculations at http://www.universetoday.com/2008/01/31/will-earth-survive-when-the-sun-becomes-a-red-giant/
http://www.universetoday.com/2008/01/31/50-years-ago-explorer-1/ Celebrate the 50th anniversary of America’s first space launch, Explorer 1.
http://www.universetoday.com:80/2008/01/28/stars-form-better-in-the-cosmic-suburbs/ Tells how stars form better in cosmic suburbs.
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