OTEvents January 2007

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Monrovia Sidewalk Astronomy tonight cancelled due to cloudy weather

by Jane Houston Jones

Tonight's weather forecast: Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain. Probability of measurable precipitation 30 percent. Southeast wind 5 mph. Low 51. Tonight's Clear Sky Clock shows all white - and that means 90% cloud cover: http://cleardarksky.com/c/MnrviaCAkey.html Luckily we had two great sidewalk astronomy nights this week. On Tuesday night LA Sidewalk Astronomer Donna Smith and I set up two homemade reflector telescopes in front of the Glendale Library. We showed a pretty crescent moon and Saturn to nearly 200 people who came to the library either to hear John Dobson's talk or who were at the library.. Last night Mojo and I set up telescopes on Colorado Blvd in Pasadena, and in-between the passing clouds we managed to have some decent moon views to show to the over 200 passersby. By 9 p.m. the moon was totally obscured by cloud, so we left early, and it looks like tonight will be worse, weatherwise. Our next outings, both in Monrovia Possible: Saturday Feb 3. The moon will be one day past full, and won't rise until 7 p.m. so if we do some viewing it will be from about 7:30 - 10 p.m. Confirmed: February 10 - 76-10 p.m. Special Saturn viewing night from about 7:30 p.m. Jane -- Jane Houston Jones Monrovia, CA 34.2048N 118.1732W, 637.0 feet http://www.whiteoaks.com Old Town Astronomers: http://www.otastro.org

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Dobson speaks at Glendale Library tonight

by Jane H Jones

Sorry for the late notice - I thought I sent this first event notice a couple weeks ago, but I didn't. This first event is tonight, and I'll be setting up my own homemade 10-inch Dobsonian reflector http://photo.whiteoaks.com/2006-12-02-dobson/slides/IMG_3850.html at the library in Glendale - I made the telescope in John Dobson's telescope making class in 1988. :-) Near the the bottom of this email are our own sidewalk events in January and February. :-) Tonight: Jan 23 - John Dobson will be doing an auditorium and parking lot talk - demo of several of his telescopes at the Glendale Public Library (GPL) Tuesday Jan. 23rd, 7 p.m. GPL is on the corner of Louise and Harvard near Colorado and Brand essentially downtown Glendale. Rain date is Jan 30. Here is the library link: http://library.ci.glendale.ca.us/authors_artists_friends.asp#dobson A few other local Dobson events are below. If you want more info about John's schedule, here is the link: www.sidewalkastronomers.us - click on schedule. Jan. 25 - The Sidewalk Astronomers will be at Nightengale Middle School at 3311 N. Figeroa in Los Angeles on the evening of Jan 25th for Science Night. Jan 26 - Join the Sidewalk Astronomers at Samuel's Florist on the evening of Jan 26 from 6 pm unitl 9 pm. 921 W. Olive Ave., Burbank, CA for more information call 818-846-1722. Jan 27 - John will be at the Griffith Park Star Party. http://www.griffithobs.org/ Star Parties are listed under the "Public Programs" area. http://www.griffithobservatory.org/pstarparties.html The Griffith website states: Those wishing to attend public star parties held at the Observatory will need to secure a timed entry and shuttle reservation for the date and time of the event. To make a reservation, please click here. Jan 28-29 John is giving talks at the Vedanta Center in Hollywood, but I don't have any additional info at this time. If you are interested in this, contact Donna at dsmith1055(a)earthlink.net Here are the next few Old Town Sidewalk Astronomy events: Jan 26 - Old Town Pasadena 6-9 p.m. (we set up on Colorado Blvd between Fair Oaks and Pasadena Avenues, depending on parking) Jan 27 - Old Town Monrovia - Library Park, Myrtle and Lime Streets, Monrovia 5-9 p.m. Feb 2&3 possible near-full-moon sidewalk nights. Saturn is close to the moon Friday night, close to Regulus Saturday night. Feb 6 - if you want to bring a telescope to school, let us know. We'll be doing our 4th annual event at a Monrovia middle school on Tuesday Feb 6th. This is the school's PTA Founders Day, and several hundred students, parents and staff will have a look through the telescopes when they are not indoors at the honors program. Telescope viewing begins at 5:45 p.m. and the event will be over by 7:30 or so. Saturn and Venus will be the observing targets. Our two telescopes are usually enough, but we would welcome a school star party veteran, with telescope. :-) Feb 10 - Saturn Observing Night - in conjunction with the JPL Cassini Mission to Saturn's volunteer program http://soc.jpl.nasa.gov/experience/gallery-archive-stories.cfm, we'll join amateur astronomers all over the world showing the planet Saturn on this night! Monrovia 6-10 p.m., later if there are still interested viewers. Feb. 26 Science Fair at a Glendora Elementary School. Again let us know if you'd like to bring a telescope to Glendora for Science Fair night. Again, veterans of school star parties, let us know if you are interested in helping out. 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. 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(a)jpl.nasa.gov Cassini Saturn Observation Campaign http://soc.jpl.nasa.gov/index.cfm

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OTEvents January 2007