[AANC Contacts] What's Up for August? Jupiter!

[Jane H Jones]

It was great seeing so many AANC members at the Fremont Peak 
Star-B-Cue last weekend!  It made me really miss the AANC gang, but I 
was really proud to see AANC playing such a great role in this fun 
event!  :-)

My most recent "What's Up" video is all about Jupiter  - I hope 
you'll share it with your astronomy club or science center, museum, 
planetarium, friends and families.
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/videos/whatsup/whatsup20080808/

I'll be supporting NASA's 2009's International Year of Astronomy 
efforts by recording a monthly podcast featuring the NASA IYA topic 
and monthly celestial object.  You can see what we'll be doing here: 
http://astronomy2009.nasa.gov/news.htm.  My What's Up podcast will be 
just one component of the monthly NASA material.

If you are ever visiting the LA area, JPL has lots of public events. 
We have monthly lectures, both here at JPL for the public and at 
Pasadena City College.  We have an active speaker's bureau.  We have 
public tours every day and our annual open house occurs each May. 
All these events can be found on the JPL Public Services website. 
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/pso/ And Griffith and Mt. Wilson 
Observatories are just around the corner, too.

And every first quarter moon weekend (like tonight, Aug 8 and 
Saturday Aug 9, you'll find Mojo and I and our Old Town Sidewalk 
Astronomers cohorts out on the sidewalks of Pasadena and Monrovia 
serving up views of the moon and planets.  Schedule here 
http://www.otastro.org/ . Many new moon or third quarter moon 
weekends we trek out I-10 near Desert Center for dark sky observing 
weekends, to a spot we first found during a Messier Marathon with Don 
Machholz.  It's our favorite observing location now.

Jane


-- 
Jane Houston Jones
Senior Outreach Specialist, Cassini Program
JPL - 4800 Oak Grove Drive, MS 230-205
Pasadena, CA  91109  818-393-6435
jane.h.jones at jpl.nasa.gov
Cassini SOC http://soc.jpl.nasa.gov/index.cfm
What's Up? http://education.jpl.nasa.gov/amateurastronomy/index.html