From mojo at whiteoaks.com Wed Jul 17 00:13:28 2002 From: mojo at whiteoaks.com (Morris Jones) Date: Fri Jul 29 03:57:04 2005 Subject: [SJAA-announce] Photo Album from Glacier Point Message-ID: I put up a page of digital pictures taken at the SJAA Glacier Point Star Parties, from July 5-6. Some of them will be in the next Ephemeris, but here is the full set (that I took). http://www.whiteoaks.com/sjaa-yosemite-2002/ Best regards, Mojo -- Morris Jones <*> San Rafael, CA mojo@whiteoaks.com http://www.whiteoaks.com From bhavner at earthlink.net Wed Jul 24 19:41:41 2002 From: bhavner at earthlink.net (Bob Havner) Date: Fri Jul 29 03:57:04 2005 Subject: [SJAA-announce] SJAA General Meeting Message-ID: SJAA General Meeting Saturday July 27, 2002 8:00pm Guest Speaker: Dr. Ken Lum Berhard V. Schmidt: A Life in Optics Dr. Lums talk will be a summary of the life of Bernhard V. Schmidt, inventor of Schmidt camera, from his birth in Estonia in 1879 to his death in 1935 in Hamburg, Germany. Schmidt invented and built the first Schmidt Camera in 1930 and showed it to be a camera capable of extraordinarily sharp, aberration-free images. Ken will demonstrate the operation of a Celestron Schmidt camera at the meeting. Join us Saturday at 8:00pm for this informative talk. For directions to Houge Park go to: www.sjaa.net/directions.html Bob Havner San Jose Astronomical Association bhavner@earthlink.net