The May meeting of the Johannesburg Centre of the Astronomical Society will be held at the Sir Herbert Baker Library on Wednesday 12th April 1999 at 8:00 p.m.
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Future Meetings
| Jun 9th | Special Show at Planetarium | T.B.A. |
| Jul 14th at 19:00 | Bring & Braai at Observatory | A.G.M. |
| Aug 11th | Test the Team | An Erudite Panel |
Dark Sky Viewing
On the Saturday nearest New Moon at Tom Budge's Farm in the Magaliesberg.
| 15th May | 11th September | Year End Star Party |
| 12th June | 9th October | 11th December |
| 10th July | 6th November | |
| 7th August |
ASSA Annual General Meeting.
The Annual General Meeting of our parent body, the ASSA, will be held at the Pretoria Centre on the 28th July 1999 at 20:00. All members are welcome to attend the meeting which will be held at that centre's normal meeting place, the CBC in Silverton.
Telescope Driver's Licence
The May course is now booked out and by the time this issue of Canopus reaches you, the April course will have been completed and we will have some new "licenced drivers". Good luck to those on the course(s) and for those who did not get onto these two latest courses, Constant will organise more of them in the future.
Swinburne 1999
Our annual trip to Swinburne will be held on the long weekend of 7th to 9th August 1999. If you are interested in this trip, please contact Ed Finlay for further details. We will arrive on the afternoon of the 7th and leave after breakfast on the 9th.
Boyden 1999
Our annual trek to Boyden will be held from the 9th to 11th July 1999. If you are interested in this trip, please contact Constant Volschenk for further details. This trip is the one where we "rough it" in one of the buildings at the Boyden observatory outside Bloemfontein and get to use the 60" telescope for some spectacular viewing.
More trips in the planning stage
Other trips are in the process of being set up including an overnight jaunt to Suikerbosrand, later in the year (when night-time temperatures start easing up a little), and a Sunday afternoon outing to Haartebeeshoek. This latter jaunt to cost about R10 per head. More information will follow nearer the time
If any of you have ideas for trips that you feel would be beneficial to Jo/burg Centre members, please contact one of the committee members and pass your idea(s) on to us. We will discuss these both in committee and at the Monthly meeting to gauge support for the proposed trip(s).
Wits Planetarium
The planetarium website is now available. Follow the link from our own home page for all the information you need regarding planetarium shows and times and a little history...........
.......and like ourselves, the planetarium links page will include links to all of the ASSA centres that have their own web sites.