A last minute note about a speaker tonight at MSUM. Dr. Virginia Trimble, a prominent astrophysicist who teaches at the University of California, Irvine, and the University of Maryland, will present a free public lecture on “Cosmology: Man’s Place in the Universe” at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 20 in MSU Moorhead’s Science Lab Building 104.

Her talk will outline what we currently know about the history of the universe and its contents and possible meanings of its evolution. The lecture will be followed at 8:30 p.m. by a free telescope viewing of the night sky, hosted by the FM Astronomy Club, at 8:30 p.m.

It sounds like we will be setting up telescopes in the parking lot off of 7th Ave S. and 11th St S.

See attached pictures for maps of locations or click on the following links.

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=msum+moorhead+minnesota&ie=UTF8&ll=46.8676,-96.75995&spn=0.003191,0.008261&t=h&z=18

http://www.mnstate.edu/home/campustour/sciencelab.cfm

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The September meeting will be on September 9, 7:30pm, at the MSUM Planetarium.

We are finally back in the Planetarium after a summer of exile while they completely remodeled it. It looks great! Hope you can come and see it while it still smells new!

The August club meeting will be Tuesday, August 12th at the Regional Science Center. Meeting will be at 7:30 PM and will include a small potluck, so if you can please bring some sort of munchies to share.

If the sky is clear we may do some observing as it gets dark!

Time: 9:00 PM – 10:30 PM (or later if people want to stay)
Where: Regional Science Center, Buffalo State Park MN

The Star Party on the Prairie is one of our annual public programs at Buffalo State Park, Regional Science Center. Club members are encouraged to bring their telescopes if they wish. Should plan on arriving to the science center around 8:00 PM to setup.

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.