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Category: Club News
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Club News: Rice Lake Road field is plowed for tonight
Posted by: mbergstrom on Sunday, February 20, 2005 - 09:15 AM
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Mark writes: "The Clear Sky Clock has tonight dark blue from 8 PM on. The field is plowed and I will be there from about 7:30. Saturn, M42, and if anyone wants to stay late, galaxies in Leo."
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Club News: Loaner telescopes back in circulation
Posted by: mbergstrom on Wednesday, February 16, 2005 - 08:15 PM
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Mark writes: "The club's two loaner telescopes are back from repair and available for members to borrow for a month at a time. The Orion XT8 Dobsonian has a new focuser and the Meade ETX-90 has new batteries and a fixed declination clutch."
"Sign-out is at the meetings. You need to have been a member for 30 days. The loaner agreement is in Downloads."
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Club News: February meeting: Cassini-Huygens at Saturn
Posted by: lynn_s on Monday, February 14, 2005 - 07:00 PM
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The February meeting is Tuesday the 22nd at 7:00 PM. Katie Paquette will talk about the Huygens landing on Titan and the first pictures from the surface. Mark has the "what's up" for March, including the Messier Marathon.
Same room as always unless the forum says otherwise. Bring a friend.
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Club News: Lakeview Elementary star night: 140 kids and one cold Saturn
Posted by: cmattson on Saturday, February 12, 2005 - 11:30 AM
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Carol writes: "Thursday's star night at Lakeview Elementary was our biggest school event yet. About 140 students and parents came out at 6:30 to the school field at 2 degrees above zero. Six telescopes were on Saturn, the Orion Nebula, the Pleiades and the thin crescent Moon low in the west."
"Inside, Rick ran the slide show on the gym wall and Nate brought a mirror blank so the kids could see how a telescope mirror starts out. Thank you to all the volunteers. The school has asked us back in May."
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Club News: Holiday potluck and 2005 officers
Posted by: lynn_s on Monday, December 20, 2004 - 04:00 PM
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Thanks to the 31 members and family who came to the holiday potluck. Officers for 2005: Lynn Sorensen, president; Mark Bergstrom, vice president and observing chair; Carol Mattson has agreed to take over outreach scheduling; Gary Wilson stays as treasurer; Dave Halvorsen stays webmaster.
Dues for 2005 are due at the January meeting. Still $20, $10 for students.
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Club News: Site upgraded to PostNuke .750, new forums
Posted by: dhalvorsen on Sunday, November 21, 2004 - 10:00 AM
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The site is now running PostNuke .750. The old theme did not survive the upgrade, so we are on the plain default theme for now. It loads faster on dial-up anyway.
The forums have moved to PNphpBB2. Your site login works in the forums, there is no separate registration. Old forum posts are archived and not imported, sorry.
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Club News: Mars Night at Chester Bowl draws a crowd
Posted by: lynn_s on Thursday, August 28, 2003 - 08:30 AM
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Last night, the night of Mars' closest approach in 60,000 years, we set up eight telescopes in the Chester Bowl parking lot. By our count about 400 people came through between 9:30 and midnight. The line for Mark's 12.5-inch was still 30 people deep at 11:45.
Mars cleared the trees around 10:30 and the seeing settled down enough to show the south polar cap and Syrtis Major. Thanks to everyone who brought a scope, and to the Parks department for leaving the lights off.
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Club News: Welcome to the new Northern Sky website
Posted by: dhalvorsen on Saturday, June 14, 2003 - 12:05 PM
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The club finally has a website of its own. The old page on the university server was three years out of date and only Lynn could update it, so we moved to a hosted account and set up PostNuke.
Members can register an account, post comments under news stories and submit their own observing reports. If something is broken, post a comment here or catch me at the next meeting.
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