Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Macomb Meeting, February 19, 2009

Dick Gala announces!

Dear WAS members,

The February 2009 Macomb meeting will be held on Thursday, February 19th at Macomb Community College, Bldg B, Room # 209 at 7:30 pm. The presentation for the evening will be a given by Diane Hall and will be entitled "Lost Constellations: The Cat and the Electric Machine (things the IAU doesn't want you to see)".

It'll be an illustrated guide to many of the former constellations-- some ancient,some modern-- that failed to make the cut when the IAU formalized the skies in 1930.

Diane is a contractor for the electrical company ITC and has been interested in astronomy since her grandfather took her stargazing when she was a toddler. Diane is married to Jonathan Kade, our present WAS Secretary. She is the proud owner of Celestron Skymaster 15X70 binoculars.

Dick Gala

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Is it possible to get notes and/or presentation materials (maybe in PowerPoint?) from this meeting? Or maybe Diane will repeat the presentation during 100 Hrs event?? I find this topic FASCINATING and am sooooo sad that I missed it as did not find WAS until March 5th.

PS: THANKS FOR ADDING W.A.S. TO MEETUP.COM SO I COULD FIND THIS GROUP! :D