From mojo at whiteoaks.com Mon Apr 1 20:50:41 2002 From: mojo at whiteoaks.com (Morris Jones) Date: Fri Jul 29 03:57:04 2005 Subject: [SJAA-announce] April SJAA Ephemeris is online Message-ID: The April edition of the SJAA Ephemeris is now available as PDF and HTML. No foolin'! http://ephemeris.sjaa.net Best regards, Mojo -- Morris Jones <*> San Rafael, CA mojo@whiteoaks.com http://www.whiteoaks.com From mojo at whiteoaks.com Fri Apr 12 17:58:07 2002 From: mojo at whiteoaks.com (Morris Jones) Date: Fri Jul 29 03:57:04 2005 Subject: [SJAA-announce] Last call for May Ephemeris Message-ID: Jane and I will be putting together the May issue of the SJAA Ephemeris this weekend, so plesae forward any articles, notices, or photos as soon as you can! Mojo -- Morris Jones <*> San Rafael, CA mojo@whiteoaks.com http://www.whiteoaks.com From mojo at whiteoaks.com Fri Apr 12 18:01:19 2002 From: mojo at whiteoaks.com (Morris Jones) Date: Fri Jul 29 03:57:04 2005 Subject: [SJAA-announce] where to send articles ... Message-ID: One other note -- don't send articles in replies to this message! Those are just forwarded to the chat list. :) Ephemeris info goes to ephemeris@sjaa.net Best regards, Mojo -- Morris Jones <*> San Rafael, CA mojo@whiteoaks.com http://www.whiteoaks.com From bhavner at earthlink.net Sat Apr 13 14:58:41 2002 From: bhavner at earthlink.net (Bob Havner) Date: Fri Jul 29 03:57:04 2005 Subject: [SJAA-announce] Messier Marathon 4/13 GO! Message-ID: The Messier Marathon is a go for tonight. Mike will have an updated list and I still have Autographed copies of Don Macholz's "Messier Marathon Observer's Guide for $10.00. Messier Marathon Henry Coe State Park April 13/14, 2002, Please arrive by 7:30 PM April 13th Saturday Sunset 19:39 Civil Twilight 20:06 Nautical Twilight 20:38 Astronomical Twilight 21:11 Moonset 20:43 Phase of the Moon on 13 April: waxing crescent with 1% of the Moon's visible disk illuminated April 14th Sunday Astronomical Twilight 5:03 Nautical Twilight 5:34 Civil Twilight 6:06 Sunrise 6:33 There is a $2.00 per vehicle night use fee. Directions: Henry Coe State Park is Located east of Morgan Hill in the Hamilton Range at 37 23 north, 121 30 west. Go south on Hwy. 101, past San Jose toward Morgan Hill. Take East Dunne Ave. Follow it east, past Anderson Reservoir, up the mountain for 12 miles. Eventually you'll cross a cattle guard, then an additional half mile brings you to a sign identifying the Park, and immediately afterward on the right, a parking lot. This is the SJAA observing site. For more info: http://koopm.best.vwh.net/messier.html Bob Havner San Jose Astronomical Association bhavner@earthlink.net -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: winmail.dat Type: application/ms-tnef Size: 2456 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.sjaa.net/pipermail/sjaa-announce/attachments/20020413/63126b5c/winmail.bin From jvn at svpal.org Wed Apr 17 11:59:49 2002 From: jvn at svpal.org (Jim Van Nuland) Date: Fri Jul 29 03:57:04 2005 Subject: [SJAA-announce] Determining Longitude Message-ID: <3CBDC625.23F6@svpal.org> Hi, All, I found the following in a newsgroup that discusses Global Positioning System receivers, a new interest of mine. Though I've read much about time and longitude determination, I was entirely unaware that the (then) newly-invented telegraph also played a serious role. A side point of interest is that the author, Trudy Bell, is a past president of SJAA (late '60s). The URL is a PDF document. > Here is an article describing the use of the telegraph to determine > longitude on land. It's from the latest issue of The Bent of Tau Beta > Pi. > > The Victorian Global Positioning System by Trudy E. Bell > http://www.tbp.org/pages/publications/BENTFeatures/BellSp02.pdf -- Jim Van Nuland, San Jose (California) Astronomical Association JVN's home page From jvn at svpal.org Fri Apr 19 13:50:53 2002 From: jvn at svpal.org (Jim Van Nuland) Date: Fri Jul 29 03:57:04 2005 Subject: [SJAA-announce] Houge Park on Friday Message-ID: <3CC0832D.551B@svpal.org> Hi, All, Wondering where to go on Friday? Consider Houge Park. In addition to the usual drop-ins and walk-bys, we'll have two scout groups (10 girls, 14 boys), and students from both West Valley and Evergreen Valley Colleges. With the Moon and 4 planets to show (Mercury will be too low (prove me wrong!)), we have lots of targets! The kids will have a formal talk at 8:30, then back to the scopes for some deep-sky adventuring. Clear Skies! -- Jim Van Nuland, San Jose (California) Astronomical Association JVN's web site From jvn at svpal.org Fri Apr 26 14:17:44 2002 From: jvn at svpal.org (Jim Van Nuland) Date: Fri Jul 29 03:57:04 2005 Subject: [SJAA-announce] Speaker for Kiwanis club? Message-ID: <3CC9C3F8.7E4A@svpal.org> Hi, all, Any Kiwanis members out there? I've been asked for a short talk on any Thursday in May, for a noon luncheon in the Almaden area. Lunch on them, short talk about 1 pm, firm ending by 1:30. Write for contact information. Clear Skies! -- Jim Van Nuland, San Jose (California) Astronomical Association JVN's home page From mojo at whiteoaks.com Sat Apr 27 22:44:24 2002 From: mojo at whiteoaks.com (Morris Jones) Date: Fri Jul 29 03:57:04 2005 Subject: [SJAA-announce] auction pictures requested Message-ID: Jane and I won't be able to make it to the auction tomorrow, but we'd love to have a few pictures for the next issue of the SJAA Ephemeris. If you're going and would be willing to snap a few pictures with the digital camera, we'd appreciate it! Best regards, Mojo -- Morris Jones <*> San Rafael, CA mojo@whiteoaks.com http://www.whiteoaks.com From koopm at koopm.best.vwh.net Sat Apr 27 17:47:19 2002 From: koopm at koopm.best.vwh.net (Michael Koop) Date: Fri Jul 29 03:57:04 2005 Subject: [SJAA-announce] Sunday! SunDAY! SUNDAY! SJAA Auction! Message-ID: It's spring and time for the annual migration of astronomical paraphernalia from one garage to another! Tomorrow, April 28, 2002, an astronomical auction and swap meet will be conducted at Houge Park in San Jose sponsored by the San Jose Astronomical Association. For a second year, we will have the auction first followed by a swap to allow people some additional haggling time for those items which were optimistically priced by the seller in the auction or to sell those odds and ends items which were better off being in a swap. It's an even year, so Kevin Medlock will be our auctioneer. Those who have observed Kevin's performance in previous auctions have learned to appreciate his merciless evaluation of classical astronomical items on the spot. Great entertainment for all! Doors open at 12:00 p.m. (or only slightly before) to register material for the auction, and view the auction material. The club reserves the right to accept only appropriate material for the auction so that the auction will run smoothly. A $1 donation is required to obtain an auction bidder/seller number. The auction will begin at 1 p.m., and will run as long as needed. Seller may specify a minimum bid, which if not met, will return the item back to the seller with no commission applied. After the auction, buyers and sellers settle up using one check to (or from) SJAA and claim their items. Seller pays 10% commission, with a cap of $50 for any one item. We do not handle charge cards. Some Auction Items include: A) SJAA Loaner Scope #31 (see , Mark Taylor not included) B) Omega B22 Enlarger (great for astrophotographers) C) A Complete C8 set up After the auction, material for the swap meet will be allowed into the hall, about 3 p.m. or perhaps earlier. Each buyer pays the seller. Sellers are to keep track of their sales, and pay a 10% commission, as for the auction. There are no table fees. Joe Sunseri of Earth and Sky Adventures is expected to be there with many fine new and used items. All commissions from the auction and the swap are tax-deductible, as SJAA is a 501(c)(3) educational organization. Do you have a large item to sell such as a telescope? Please email Bill Arnett at auction@sjaa.net with a description and a photo of the item or a link to your own website for some pre-auction publicity. Directions: From mojo at whiteoaks.com Tue Apr 30 22:18:08 2002 From: mojo at whiteoaks.com (Morris Jones) Date: Fri Jul 29 03:57:04 2005 Subject: [SJAA-announce] May SJAA Ephemeris available online Message-ID: The May issue of the SJAA Ephemeris is now available online: http://ephemeris.sjaa.net Best regards, Mojo -- Morris Jones <*> San Rafael, CA mojo@whiteoaks.com http://www.whiteoaks.com