Rob JaworskiHello SJAA Members and Friends,
Just a reminder that the SJAA Swap Meet is happening this Sunday, March 20, 2016 at the Hall at San Jose’s Houge Park. Here is the announcement that went to the Announce list (which is still being used, we encourage people to join),
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Teruo UtsumiI’ve dubbed our automation effort GUS: Grand Unified SJAA. (This is a continuation from the post in May. If you’re interested in pitching in or just curious, you’re invited to join the Coders group.)
The organizers spend hundreds of man hours every year,
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Rob JaworskiLast Saturday night was the annual membership meeting of the SJAA. There was a potluck, awards, and the annual election for about half the seats of the board of directors. Bill O’Neil, Glenn Newell, Rob Jaworski and Dave Ittner were all up for reelection, and we are happy to report all nominees,
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This is my long due blog post…but better late than never!
I am excited to announce that thanks to a very generous donation to SJAA library, we now have some more great books in store for members to check out. Here’s the list –
The First Three Minutes
The Red Limit
Black Holes and Warped Spacetime
Galaxies and Quasars
Sundials –
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Rob JaworskiThe SJAA Swap Meet for 2015 was a resounding success! There were lots of people who came out to browse, buy and sell, with old friends meeting up for the first time in a long while.
Though the event was scheduled to start at 11AM, there were people showing up even before then,
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Rob Jaworski
I just got back from a holiday in northern Australia. Though it wasn’t an astronomical vacation at all (brought no scopes or astronomical meaningful binocs), I did get a chance to look up at a far more southern sky than I’m used to seeing.
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Dave IttnerDear SJAA Member,
The San Jose Astronomical Association (SJAA) has been in existence for 60 years now. For many of those years, the club has offered its members the benefit of subscribing to Sky & Telescope magazine when they join or renew their membership. Due to the significant growth of the club,
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Rob Jaworski
The SJAA is in the process of automating various aspects of club operations. Examples include subscribing (and unsubscribing) to email lists, renewing memberships, maintaining event calendars, creating and adapting an auction system,
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Ed WongThe Houge Park Hall was buzzing with activity today with several programs going on at the sametime. The SJAA Fixit Program, SJAA Library and SJAA Advanced Loaner program were all open today to serve our members and public. We had people coming for help with telescope collimation questions, eyepiece and lens cell questions.
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We were so very lucky to see the Sun between the clouds at the get go as were 3 public bystanders.
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Member April 2015 Eclipse Shots
Members, send us one or two of you lunar eclipse photos (max size 720×1280) to
m.dot packer at yahoo dot com and we’ll post here. People shots welcome!
“look for oranges,
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35th Annual Spring Auction
It was “good to see friends from other clubs like Tri-Valley, Mid Peninsula, etc.” – SJAA’s Bill O’Neil
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A Little History
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We talked about Leonard Nimoy at today’s Solar Sunday.
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2015 Golden State Star Party (GSSP)
Wednesday, July 15
To Sunday, July 19 (4 nights)
The biggest and darkest skies you’re likely to encounter are there,
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SJAA Annual Meeting and Potluck
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Elections were held, food served, and a few members were recognized for making SJAA shine. Greg Claytor did an outstanding job of noting all that our clubs does –
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Send Pics of Comet C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) To
mDOTpackerATyahooDOTcom – We’ll Post Below
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With a pair a binoculars look for Comet C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy).
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The Rosetta Lander (PHILAE) mission: landing on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
Tuesday, December 16 2014 – 7:00 pm, PST
The Rosetta Lander,
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