Welcome to the Fargo-Moorhead Astronomy Club Homepage!

The October 9th Meeting will be held at the Regional Science Center (Buffalo State Park) instead of the usual location at the MSUM planetarium. Meeting time will still be the same: 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM.

The reason for the change of location is because we were asked to send one person to help out with a small observing night. Our fearless president made a decision to relocate the meeting so we can (hopefully) all enjoy a bit of telescope time.

Everyone is encouraged to bring scopes along!

Wednesday, October 3 from 7:30 - 9:00 PM is the Lake Agassiz Rock Club monthly meeting. The rock club meets in Stevens Hall, Room 130, at North Dakota State University.

The featured speaker will be North Dakota palenotoligist Dr. John W. Hoganson. For more information on North Dakota Geologic Survey and Dr. Hoganson see the following link:

https://www.dmr.nd.gov/ndfossil/

Thursday, October 4, 2007 from 7:00 - 9:00 PM is the annual Fall Fantasy event. Club members should try to arrive around 6:30 PM to help set up scopes if it’s clear. 

Local animals will be the topics at campfires on the trails of the Buffalo River Site. Guests will walk through the woods stopping to enjoy interpretive dramatizations about local wildlife. If the skies are clear, telescopes will be set up to view the autumn sky. The event is free, children must be accompanies by an adult.

For the latest information check out the Regional Science Center web site: http://www.mnstate.edu/regsci/

We now have a discsussion board at this address:

 http://s3.excoboard.com/exco/index.php?boardid=5578

 Link to be added to the navigation menu this week.

We’ll be posting the pictures from the convention soon.  Stay tuned!

Lyndon Anderson sent this link to his presentation from his keynote talk:

http://www.prairiejournal.com/ncral.ppt

He told me he had a lot of fun giving it. Thanks to everyone who was there that made it fun.

The registration forms are now available for download and printing. They can be found at

http://www.fmastronomy.com/registration-ncral.html

An online registration system using PayPal should be online and ready by Sunday March 25.

The NCRAL 2007 Convention pages have been uploaded. Please visit them to see a tentative schedule and a list of speakers. Registration forms should be online shortly for both snail mail and electronic submission.

Thanks for your paitence. We’re doing some updates to the website and getting the content up to date.