July 2016

Summer is the time for outdoor picnics and for observing. I want to share with you what we will be doing for the next several months at Skyscraper meetings. I hope most of you will attend our meetings and share a bite to eat as well as share great company.  

Our July meeting will be on Saturday, July 9. Starting at 5:30 we will have our annual Pot Luck picnic. Please plan on coming and sharing a dish with all of us. If you can attend please let Kathy know what you will be bringing. Send her a line at kathys5@cox.net. Skyscrapers will supply coffee and drinks, as well as paper goods. Our speaker that evening will be Wallace Arthur, who will talk about cosmic rays. You may remember we had to cancel his talk in February because of a snow storm.

Our August meeting will be held on Saturday, August 13. (On the previous weekend Stellafane will be held and many of our members plan to attend the annual event) This meeting will be a cookout meeting. If you would like hot dogs and hamburgers, please let Kathy know so we can get a head count. Cost will be $5 per person. This meeting will celebrate Solar Eclipses. Steve Hubbard will discuss his trip to Indonesia for the 2015 eclipse. Ian Dell'Antonio will review the aspects for the 2017 eclipse. And everyone who is traveling to an eclipse site is invited to share their plans with all of us. Please let me know if you would like a few minutes. My e-mail is ssiok@cox.net. Again, picnic at 5:30 and meeting at 7:30.

Our September meeting will be held on Friday, September 16, due to the availability of the speaker. It will be a normal meeting, refreshments at 7:00, meeting at 7:30. Our speaker will be Adam Sarafian and his topic will be "The Origin of the Water on the Earth".  We will also invite the members of our local Section of the American Chemical Society, as the June meeting had to be canceled.

October 1st is AstroAssembly. More on that next month.

Keep looking up and please attend our upcoming meetings.