Notice of Meeting The January meeting of the Johannesburg Centre of the Astronomical Society will be held in the Sir Herbert Baker Library, 18a Gill Street, Observatory, on Wednesday the 12th of January, 2000 at 20:00. Topic: Computers in Astronomy A demonstration on the use of computers in our chosen field. By: Chris˛ |
Future Meetings
| February 9th | METSOC 1999 | Trevor Gould |
| March 8th | Marconi | Tony Voorvelt |
| April 12th | Planetarium Meeting | T.B.A. |
We will be asking Dr Nicholson of HartRAO to present a lecture at one of our meetings.
Dark Sky Viewing
On the Saturday nearest New Moon at Tom Budge’s Farm in the Magaliesberg. Remember that this is by arrangement only as most observers will be following specific viewing programmes and if you don’t have your own ’scope, you should contact one of the observers ( e.g. at the monthly meeting ) to arrange some viewing time with them.
| 5th February | 1st July | Year End Star Party 2000 |
| 4th March | 26th August | "Under the Full Moon" |
| 1st April | 23rd September | 9th December |
| 6th May | 28th October | |
| 3rd June | 25th November |
Jo'burg Centre Outings for 2000
Your Committee is making arrangements for several outings during the year. Amongst these are some old favourites as well as a couple of new ones which should prove interesting. The annual jaunt to Swinburne in August will be replaced this coming year with a trip to Nylsvlei around June/July which should be more Astronomically beneficial and less financially draining. We will also be trying to arrange 2 trips to Boyden as well as trips to Hartebeeshoek, the Tswaing Crater and the Science & Technology Museum. We will also be looking at the possibility of arranging visits to other ASSA Centres during the year - more information to follow.
Other Talks
Tony Voorvelt will be giving a talk on the last Friday of February titled "From Candle to Laser" in the 26" telescope building. There is a charge of R10 for adults and R5 for children/senior citizens and the talk, which starts at 19:30, will last for approximately 45 minutes.
These Friday Month-end talks are presented regularly by Tony, and we will try to give notice of them, with titles, whenever they are scheduled.