[AANC Contacts] Randall Talk Tonight, Nick Kanas, Pinnacles SP, Cal IYA Talks and Dean Series

[KENNETH FRANK]

Good morning all,


Randall Talk Tonight
Please note for the SFAA meeting tonight at 7:30 pm. We will meet down  
the ramp to the right as you enter the Randall in the Buckley Room  
rather than in the theatre for our Membership Meeting and hear John  
Dillon's stirring presentation
The Autopsy of Heaven: Galileo, Telescopes, and the Beginning of  
Modern Science


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Nick Kanas
Thursday, May 28, 7PM - UCSF Professor and NASA-funded researcher, Dr.  
Nick Kanas provides a fascinating look at the night sky and answers  
such stellar questions as:  "How have different cultures made sense of  
the night sky?
What led to the development of the great star and constellation atlases?
What has been the impact of the telescope on celestial mapping?  Using  
stunning images taken from his book Star Maps: History, Artistry, and  
Cartography (2007), Professor Kanas will trace the history of our  
attempt to organize and map the night sky, drawing on his many years  
as an amateur astronomer and an avid collector of antiquarian  
celestial prints and books.
Don't miss this heavenly presentation!"
The Larkspur Library is located at 400 Magnolia Avenue in Larkspur.  
For more information, please call the library at 415-927-5005, or  
visit the library website at:
http:www.larkspurlibrary.org

Event Flyer:
http://koopm.best.vwh.net/star_maps.pdf


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Pinnacles Star Party
On Saturday June 20th the Pinnacles Partnership will hold its 3rd  
annual picnic at the RS
Bar Guest Ranch 17 miles south of the Pinnacles Park.  This is the  
same location that
recently a pair of California condors nested and successfully  
incubated and hatched the
first condor chick in over 70 years in the Pinnacles area.
That evening we are asked if we would like to put on a star party not  
only for ourselves
but for anyone else left over from the picnic to enjoy.  There will be  
no charge for setting up our scopes.  We can even camp overnight if  
one wishes.  No water at the site, but there will be porta-potties.   
This location is about 47 miles south of Hollister  taking Hwy 25  
south.  So if you would like to stay overnight you can, and take a  
leisurely ride home the following morning.  It is a beautiful area,  
with gorgeous skies.
This email is to make contact with you to see how many of you would be  
interested in
participating in the star party.  If we can get enough to make it  
worthwhile we will go
ahead with it.  We already have three scopes that will be there so I  
don't think it should
be a problems to pull this off.
If you are interested please get back to me, then I will notify  
everyone about all the
particulars on how to get there, etc....  Be sure to let your friends  
and any members of
your clubs know that it is free.......
Hope you can make it....

David Baumgartner
831-637-1148


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Cal IYA Talks
Don’t forget the ongoing International Year of Astronomy 2009 Public  
Talks, Hosted by the UC Berkeley Astronomy Department. Talks take  
place from 11am until 12 noon on the third Saturday of each month.  
More info can be found here:
http://astro.berkeley.edu/~scroft/iya/

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Dean Series
Tickets are now available for the July and August Dean Lectures at the  
Morrison Planetarium.
The July 6 lecture is an encore presentation of Dr. Geoff Marcy's  
April lecture. During May, anyone who had purchased tickets for the  
April lecture may call 800-794-7576 for free tickets to the July  
lecture. Starting June 1, any remaining tickets will be available for  
sale at the regular price ($5 for members, $10 for non-members, $8 for  
seniors).

Tickets for the August 3 lecture (Dr. Margaret Race from the SETI  
Institute speaking about "Astrobiology, Planetary Protection, and  
Hitchikers in the Solar System") are now available either by calling  
800-794-7576 or online at https://www.calacademy.org/event_tickets/.


Have a warm, clear weekend. Hooray for Hubble,

Ken