From Sol.Man at IndigoSkies.com Sat Sep 1 23:54:33 2001 From: Sol.Man at IndigoSkies.com (Mark Taylor) Date: Sat Sep 30 03:57:13 2006 Subject: [SJAABoard] Agenda item -- ordering materials Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20010901233850.00ace510@208.241.78.28> Board ones, RASC sent me a letter to remind us that it's ordering time again... I'll bring the order forms to the meeting, but here's the scoop: - 2002 Observer's Handbooks: $13.50 (in quantities of 20-99) - 2002 Wall Calendars: $11 (5-9), $7 (10-24), $6.50 (25-99) - Beginner's Observing Guides: $14 (1-9), $13 (10-24), $12 (25-49) See you next week, Mark P.S. The APD ordering process is well under way; I'm awaiting a response from "da man" that the data files are good, plus what the bulk pricing will be (generally it's between 4 and 5 bucks). I told him we'd start with 60 and order more if needed. Since we'll have them so early this year we may actually run out! From north at znet.com Sun Sep 2 01:02:58 2001 From: north at znet.com (Dave North) Date: Sat Sep 30 03:57:13 2006 Subject: [SJAABoard] Agenda item -- ordering materials References: <5.1.0.14.0.20010901233850.00ace510@208.241.78.28> Message-ID: <3B91E7B2.6904485A@znet.com> m: >>Beginner's Observing Guides: $14 (1-9), $13 (10-24), $12 (25-49)<< If I recall correctly, those suck long and hard. Dave From koopm at best.com Sun Sep 2 10:35:25 2001 From: koopm at best.com (Michael Koop) Date: Sat Sep 30 03:57:13 2006 Subject: [SJAABoard] Agenda item -- ordering materials Message-ID: <01c133d5$a6cba8a0$034bb43f@koopm.vip.best.com> And I still have 4 copies of the Beginners Guide from the last buy........... Shall we post to the Announce and TAC list asking for pre-orders or just buy 30 copies of the Observer's Guide 20 copies of the calendar What did we do last year? I think we were a little short on the Observer's Guide and the calendar. Mike -----Original Message----- From: Dave North +ADw-north+AEA-znet.com+AD4- To: sjaaboard+AEA-sjaa.net +ADw-sjaaboard+AEA-sjaa.net+AD4- Date: Sunday, September 02, 2001 12:57 AM Subject: Re: +AFs-SJAABoard+AF0- Agenda item -- ordering materials m: +AD4APg-Beginner's Observing Guides: +ACQ-14 (1-9), +ACQ-13 (10-24), +ACQ-12 (25-49)+ADwAPA- If I recall correctly, those suck long and hard. Dave +AF8AXwBfAF8AXwBfAF8AXwBfAF8AXwBfAF8AXwBfAF8AXwBfAF8AXwBfAF8AXwBfAF8AXwBfAF8AXwBfAF8AXwBfAF8AXwBfAF8AXwBfAF8AXwBfAF8AXwBfAF8AXw- SJAABoard mailing list SJAABoard+AEA-sjaa.net http://www.sjaa.net/mailman/listinfo/sjaaboard From Sol.Man at IndigoSkies.com Sun Sep 2 11:10:57 2001 From: Sol.Man at IndigoSkies.com (Mark Taylor) Date: Sat Sep 30 03:57:13 2006 Subject: [SJAABoard] Agenda item -- ordering materials In-Reply-To: <01c133d5$a6cba8a0$034bb43f@koopm.vip.best.com> Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20010902110738.00b01680@indigoskies.com> At 10:35 AM 9/2/2001, Michael Koop wrote: >And I still have 4 copies of the Beginners Guide from the last >buy........... Yeah, I didn't expect we'd be getting any of them. >Shall we post to the Announce and TAC list asking for pre-orders or just buy Couldn't hurt to get a show of expectant hands as to who will come buy them, but IME/O, the management of pre-orders and/or mailing of items to people who don't/won't come out to Houge is a real pain in the asteroid. I wouldn't guarantee held copies for anyone, but just use the poll to work out the order size. >30 copies of the Observer's Guide >20 copies of the calendar I think we did less than this last year, and you're correct -- it wasn't enough. M From wb6yru at aenet.net Sun Sep 2 21:03:00 2001 From: wb6yru at aenet.net (Gary Mitchell) Date: Sat Sep 30 03:57:13 2006 Subject: [SJAABoard] Agenda item -- ordering materials References: <5.1.0.14.0.20010902110738.00b01680@indigoskies.com> Message-ID: <3B9300F4.EEC@aenet.net> Mark Taylor wrote: > > At 10:35 AM 9/2/2001, Michael Koop wrote: > >And I still have 4 copies of the Beginners Guide from the last > >buy........... > > Yeah, I didn't expect we'd be getting any of them. > > >Shall we post to the Announce and TAC list asking for pre-orders or just buy > > Couldn't hurt to get a show of expectant hands as to who will come buy > them, but IME/O, the management of pre-orders and/or mailing of items to > people who don't/won't come out to Houge is a real pain in the asteroid. I > wouldn't guarantee held copies for anyone, but just use the poll to work > out the order size. > > >30 copies of the Observer's Guide > >20 copies of the calendar > > I think we did less than this last year, and you're correct -- it wasn't > enough. If we need more volume, then it makes sense to stir up more interest with a wider announcement. I understand the problem with selling to people who don't show up to meetings, that's something we'll have to decide. Gary From bhavner at earthlink.net Tue Sep 4 19:25:31 2001 From: bhavner at earthlink.net (Bob Havner) Date: Sat Sep 30 03:57:13 2006 Subject: [SJAABoard] Dec. Meeting Message-ID: <001201c135b2$0e36ae80$16cdf7a5@havner> I have not yet scheduled a speaker for the Dec. meeting. Will we be having a social? or shall I try to schedule someone. Bob Havner Vice-President San Jose Astronomical Assn. bhavner@earthlink.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.sjaa.net/pipermail/sjaaboard/attachments/20010904/52244f66/attachment.html From Sol.Man at IndigoSkies.com Tue Sep 4 21:33:54 2001 From: Sol.Man at IndigoSkies.com (Mark Taylor) Date: Sat Sep 30 03:57:13 2006 Subject: [SJAABoard] Dec. Meeting In-Reply-To: <001201c135b2$0e36ae80$16cdf7a5@havner> Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20010904213259.031d6700@indigoskies.com> At 07:25 PM 9/4/2001, Bob Havner wrote: >I have not yet scheduled a speaker for the Dec. meeting. Will we be having >a social? or shall I try to schedule someone. I had hoped (and somewhat expected) that we'd have a social. The last two were really well received, IMO. Mark From wb6yru at aenet.net Tue Sep 4 23:55:33 2001 From: wb6yru at aenet.net (Gary Mitchell) Date: Sat Sep 30 03:57:13 2006 Subject: [SJAABoard] Dec. Meeting References: <001201c135b2$0e36ae80$16cdf7a5@havner> Message-ID: <3B95CC65.6BB@aenet.net> Bob Havner wrote: > > I have not yet scheduled a speaker for the Dec. meeting. Will we be > having a social? or shall I try to schedule someone. > > Bob Havner > Vice-President > San Jose Astronomical Assn. > bhavner@earthlink.net I didn't care that much for the social meeting I went to. It's too much like a regular meeting where the speaker didn't show up. Most meetings have a social aspect to them anyway. So, personally, I'd prefer a regular meeting. If we decide on a social meeting, there should be something astronomical planned. I hesitate to suggest a show & tell, since we already do that, but something along those lines. We had a pot-luck dinner once (that I know of), it was like a mini Star-B- Que. Maybe another one of those? Gary From Sol.Man at IndigoSkies.com Wed Sep 5 07:47:22 2001 From: Sol.Man at IndigoSkies.com (Mark Taylor) Date: Sat Sep 30 03:57:13 2006 Subject: [SJAABoard] Dec. Meeting In-Reply-To: <3B95CC65.6BB@aenet.net> References: <001201c135b2$0e36ae80$16cdf7a5@havner> Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20010905074003.00aca610@indigoskies.com> At 11:55 PM 9/4/2001, Gary Mitchell wrote: >I didn't care that much for the social meeting I went to. It's >too much like a regular meeting where the speaker didn't show up. I disagree: People don't typically bring foods and mystery gifts to the regular meetings. >If we decide on a social meeting, there should be something >astronomical planned. Outside activities are pretty well limited in December... If the cold doesn't get you, the clouds probably will! >We had a >pot-luck dinner once (that I know of), it was like a mini Star-B- >Que. Maybe another one of those? That's one aspect of the social. The gift exchange is fun, too, and in previous years people were encouraged to bring in any astro equipment or toys they wanted to share (and some did). Maybe what we really need is to advertise it better and sooner, and get even more people interested in participating and suggesting activities to add to what we already have. Mark From akkana at shallowsky.com Wed Sep 5 09:56:29 2001 From: akkana at shallowsky.com (Akkana) Date: Sat Sep 30 03:57:13 2006 Subject: [SJAABoard] Dec. Meeting In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20010905074003.00aca610@indigoskies.com>; from Sol.Man@indigoskies.com on Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 07:47:22AM -0700 References: <001201c135b2$0e36ae80$16cdf7a5@havner> <3B95CC65.6BB@aenet.net> <5.1.0.14.0.20010905074003.00aca610@indigoskies.com> Message-ID: <20010905095629.A50923@shallowsky.com> Mark Taylor writes: > At 11:55 PM 9/4/2001, Gary Mitchell wrote: > >I didn't care that much for the social meeting I went to. It's > >too much like a regular meeting where the speaker didn't show up. > > I disagree: People don't typically bring foods and mystery gifts > to the regular meetings. Also, everybody knows it's going to be a party ahead of time. Going to a party is very different (to me) than going to a talk and having the speaker not show up. I've really enjoyed the year-end holiday parties the last couple of years ... it's a fun thing for a club to do. (But then, I've always been of the opinion that clubs should do more communicating among members and less sitting in rows being lectured to. Personal quirk, I guess.) ...Akkana From jvn at svpal.org Sat Sep 8 14:13:22 2001 From: jvn at svpal.org (Jim Van Nuland) Date: Sat Sep 30 03:57:13 2006 Subject: [SJAABoard] Calendar material - November Message-ID: <3B9A89F2.3A64@svpal.org> Here's the stuff for November. There are a few loose ends. (1) Plan for Nov.4 swap meet. Time? Publicity? (2) Decide whether to do Pot-luck on Dec.1. Is there a speaker waiting in the wings? Are there cooks waiting in the wings? (3) Shall we have a class November 23? October 26? Speakers: October, Jeff Moore November 3 -s- General Meeting, Robert Naeye/ASP on Chandra Observatory. 4 -S- Swap meet, Houge Park. Start time noon? 9 -f- Houge Park star party Sset 5:02 pm, 32% moon rises 1:19 am 10 -s- Fremont Peak star party Sset 5:00 pm, 21% moon rises 2:28 am. 17 -s- Coe and Peak star party Sset 4:55 pm, 10% moon sets 7:04 pm. 23 -f- Houge Park star party Sset 4:53 pm, 61% moon sets 0:45 am 23 -f- Astronomy Class XII??, 7:30 pm, hall, Houge Park School star parties: Sep. 23 -- Chinese Moon Festival, 1 to 5 pm Oct. 16 -- Pending, SE San Jose Oct. 19 -- Sunnyhills Park, Milpitas public star party Oct. 23 -- Pending, W. San Jose Oct. 24 -- Matsumo Elementary, E. San Jose Oct. 25 -- Cedar Grove Elementary, E. San Jose Oct. 26 -- School group at regular Houge Park star party Oct. 31 -- Halloween. Set up at home, show off the full moon Nov. 19 -- Pending, far E. San Jose The school star party list is constantly updated. The current version is on my web site, with the above summary at the bottom. -- Jim Van Nuland, San Jose (California) Astronomical Association JVN's home page From Sol.Man at IndigoSkies.com Mon Sep 10 21:00:55 2001 From: Sol.Man at IndigoSkies.com (Mark Taylor) Date: Sat Sep 30 03:57:13 2006 Subject: [SJAABoard] Fwd: Re: San Jose Astro Assn APD Order Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20010910205538.00a8f130@indigoskies.com> They're as good as in the airmail already! Wooohooo! Time to start the marketing machine. I'll get it going by sending a blurb to "ephemeris", putting a web page together (for linking from the main site) and will send something to the announce list. Please, everyone, start talking about them at public events. Mark ... > > what the bulk pricing is for this year, and I will go ahead and place the > > order with my credit card on your web site. > >$4 each... like last year. ... > > We would like to start out with 60 books this year, but since we're > > ordering so early we may find that we sell out and need to order a second > > batch; I'll let you know as soon as I know if that happens... Time > will tell. > >That's PERFECT. > >I have already test-printed the prototype for San Jose, >and will try to send most by air-mail soon... > >If you could make an educated guess on or before 20 October... that would >be good. > > >-- >cheers, >Norbert From bill at nineplanets.org Thu Sep 13 17:55:59 2001 From: bill at nineplanets.org (Bill Arnett) Date: Sat Sep 30 03:57:13 2006 Subject: [SJAABoard] Re: Telescope parts: In-Reply-To: <000001c13c99$40340b60$ae04500a@direcpc.com> Message-ID: <200109140055.f8E0txt11505@falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net> Tom Mudd has donated some stuff. Unless any of you has a better idea, I'll bring it to the upcoming auction/swap. On Thursday, September 13, 2001, at 09:56 AM, tomwrote: > Bill, I have some left over telescope parts that I would like to donate > to SJAA. I have a 12" diameter, 6 foot, fiber glass tube that would be > perfect for someone making a 10" dobs. I also have some altitude > bearings that came from Astro Systems, some great 12" rings, probably > for a 10" equatorial system, part of a University Optics mirror cell > etc. I would offer to bring these items to a regular meeting but I > don't have a car that will handle the tube. If you would be interested > in these for the club, they are yours for the pickup. Look forward to > hearing from you. Thanks, Tom -- Bill Arnett bill@nineplanets.org Redwood City, CA USA http://nineplanets.org/ 37 27 38 N 122 16 11 W From jane at whiteoaks.com Thu Sep 13 18:08:19 2001 From: jane at whiteoaks.com (Jane Houston Jones) Date: Sat Sep 30 03:57:13 2006 Subject: [SJAABoard] Re: Telescope parts: References: <200109140055.f8E0txt11505@falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net> Message-ID: <3BA15883.23287E70@whiteoaks.com> He offered this stuff to the Sidewalk Astronomers but I just don't have room for it, even temporarily.Glad he offered it to the SJAA. JHJ Bill Arnett wrote: > Tom Mudd has donated some stuff. Unless any of you has a better idea, > I'll bring it to the upcoming auction/swap. > > On Thursday, September 13, 2001, at 09:56 AM, tomwrote: > > > Bill, I have some left over telescope parts that I would like to > donate > > to SJAA. I have a 12" diameter, 6 foot, fiber glass tube that would be > > > perfect for someone making a 10" dobs. I also have some altitude > > bearings that came from Astro Systems, some great 12" rings, probably > > for a 10" equatorial system, part of a University Optics mirror cell > > etc. I would offer to bring these items to a regular meeting but I > > don't have a car that will handle the tube. If you would be interested > > > in these for the club, they are yours for the pickup. Look forward to > > hearing from you. Thanks, Tom > > -- > Bill Arnett > bill@nineplanets.org Redwood City, CA USA > http://nineplanets.org/ 37 27 38 N 122 16 11 W > _______________________________________________ > SJAABoard mailing list > SJAABoard@sjaa.net > http://www.sjaa.net/mailman/listinfo/sjaaboard -- Jane Houston Jones San Rafael, CA jane@whiteoaks.com http://www.whiteoaks.com From jane at whiteoaks.com Thu Sep 13 18:11:01 2001 From: jane at whiteoaks.com (Jane Houston Jones) Date: Sat Sep 30 03:57:13 2006 Subject: [SJAABoard] Re: Telescope parts: References: <200109140055.f8E0txt11505@falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net> Message-ID: <3BA15925.6CA2E116@whiteoaks.com> Tom Mudd is Cinnabar winery owner/winemaker. He makes "Mercury Rising" bordeaux style wine. The Cabs and Merlots are great, too! Bill Arnett wrote: > Tom Mudd has donated some stuff. Unless any of you has a better idea, > I'll bring it to the upcoming auction/swap. > > On Thursday, September 13, 2001, at 09:56 AM, tomwrote: > > > Bill, I have some left over telescope parts that I would like to > donate > > to SJAA. I have a 12" diameter, 6 foot, fiber glass tube that would be > > > perfect for someone making a 10" dobs. I also have some altitude > > bearings that came from Astro Systems, some great 12" rings, probably > > for a 10" equatorial system, part of a University Optics mirror cell > > etc. I would offer to bring these items to a regular meeting but I > > don't have a car that will handle the tube. If you would be interested > > > in these for the club, they are yours for the pickup. Look forward to > > hearing from you. Thanks, Tom > > -- > Bill Arnett > bill@nineplanets.org Redwood City, CA USA > http://nineplanets.org/ 37 27 38 N 122 16 11 W > _______________________________________________ > SJAABoard mailing list > SJAABoard@sjaa.net > http://www.sjaa.net/mailman/listinfo/sjaaboard -- Jane Houston Jones San Rafael, CA jane@whiteoaks.com http://www.whiteoaks.com From jvn at svpal.org Mon Sep 24 23:28:46 2001 From: jvn at svpal.org (Jim Van Nuland) Date: Sat Sep 30 03:57:13 2006 Subject: [SJAABoard] Absence, Tuesday -- Thursday Message-ID: <3BB0241E.7030@svpal.org> Hi, All, We will be out of town Tuesday morning thru Thursday afternoon, visiting Barbara & co. in Sutter Creek, Amador county. Sept.25 - 28. I expect to run my e-mail from there, though not as frequently as I do at home. Love, Dad/bro/Jim. -- Jim Van Nuland, San Jose (California) Astronomical Association JVN's home page