From mark.wagner at resource-intl.com Fri May 1 10:30:03 2009 From: mark.wagner at resource-intl.com (Mark Wagner) Date: Fri, 01 May 2009 09:30:03 -0700 Subject: [SJAA-announce] Houge Park Star Party very probable cancelation. Message-ID: <49FB238B.7090404@resource-intl.com> Due to the weather forecast for tonight, 80% chance of rain, it is highly likely tonights star party will be canceled. Forecast: http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?site=mtr&smap=1&textField1=37.25723333333&textField2=-121.9418 If there is some miraculous change, it will be in the 5 p.m. e-mail we'll be sending out. Next SJAA event is the general meeting at Houge Park, 8 P.M. on May 9. Guest speaker Dr. Christopher Mauche on the X-Ray Universe. http://www.sjaa.net Mark From mark.wagner at resource-intl.com Fri May 1 17:27:49 2009 From: mark.wagner at resource-intl.com (Mark Wagner) Date: Fri, 1 May 2009 16:27:49 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [SJAA-announce] Houge Park star party canceled & Event! Message-ID: <58723.76.202.198.116.1241220469.squirrel@webmail5.pair.com> Conditions for tonight are hopeless for observing. Enjoy the weekend... FYI, on Monday, May 4th at 7:30 p.m., Stanford University's Astronomy Program will present the 27th Annual Bunyan Lecture, free and open to the public, in Braun Auditorium, Mudd Chemistry Bldg. 333 Campus Drive. Professor Alex Filippenko of U.C. Berkeley will speak on "Dark Energy and the Runaway Universe" Filippenko is an *excellent* speaker, this should be well worth attending. Also: Technical Seminar: Physics & AstroPhysics Bldg. Conference room 102-103 11 am-Noon - "The Lick Observatory Supernova Serach and Follow-up STudies of Supernovae" Thanks to Greg Claytor for providing us this information. Mark