[AANC Contacts] Galilean Nights, "What's Up?, Final Mt Tam Astronomy Program & Exploring the Invisible Universe

[Kenneth Frank]

Dear AANC Membership and all Northern California amateur astronomers,

Galilean Nights
Be a part of astronomy enthusiasts across the globe, breaking out your telescopes this 
weekend (October 22-24)
in a coordinated effort to help hundreds of thousands of people experience their own 
"Galileo moment" of awe and discovery
when seeing the planet Jupiter and its four largest moons.

Please send Alan Gould <adgould at comcast.net> what you are up to for Galilean Nights:
http://www.galileannights.org/

Here are a few examples:
Telescope Building Workshop and Star Party - October 23, 7pm:
http://astro.berkeley.edu/~scroft/iya/

College of San Mateo, 4th Year of Jazz Under the Stars:
http://www.collegeofsanmateo.edu/astronomy/

San Francisco Amateur Astronomers:
http://www.sfaa-astronomy.org/calendar.php?drawevent:950

and

San Francisco Sidewalk Astronomers with Dwayne Freyberger
9th and Irving, Saturday, October 23, 6:15pm

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What's Up?
To help guide you for this weekend why not check out Jane H. Jones' "What's Up?" podcast 
on Andromeda Galaxy:
http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/downloads/whatsup20091001-480x270_cc.mov

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Final Mt Tam Astronomy Program of 2009!
Saturday, October 24 at 7:00pm in the Mountain Theatre, Professor Michael Dine, from the 
Physics Department of UCSC,  will discuss “The Dawn of the LHC Era: The Convergence of 
Particle Physics and Astrophysics.”

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Exploring the Invisible Universe: The Past and Future of Radio Astronomy
Peter Williams, Department of Astronomy, UC Berkeley
October 21  7:00pm
Randall Museum 199 Museum Way, SF


See you on the sidewalk this weekend,

Ken