Notice of Meeting

The November 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 10th of November, 1999 at 20:00.

Topic:

The Leonids

The Radio and the Optical perspective

Try not to miss this pair of talks - the Leonids arrive circa the 18th of November and you will pick up many useful observing tips from the two presenters.

Future Meetings

                        December 11th              Year End Star Party                    At Tom’s Farm

                        January 12th                   METSOC 1999                         Trevor Gould

                        February 9th                   Computers in Astronomy            Chris2

 

Dark Sky Viewing

On the Saturday nearest New Moon at Tom Budge's Farm in the Magaliesberg.

            6th November                                                                  Year End Star Party

(A new list will appear in the December issue)                        11th December

 

The Year End Star Party

Tom has once again graciously opened his home to us as a venue for our annual Year End Star Party. Those of you who attended last year's blast will remember the lethal concoction ( I think it was some highly-secret rocket fuel ) that Tom served up to the bold and brave amongst you. He has assured me that he has more of this medicinal anomaly ready to be consumed by any of you courageous enough to say YES! Well even if you don't try the brew - the fires will be available for you to braai your own consumables - PLEASE REMEMBER THIS IS A BRING 'N BRAAI - so bring along anything you wish to consume - both food and beverages.

Come along from late afternoon ( 16:00ish ) onward.

New Members

We would like to welcome the following new Members to the Jo'burg Centre and wish them many years of clear skies:-

Erika Ashford             Henrique Durao (Family)       Len Larson (Family)

Donations

We wish to thank the following members for their kind donations:-

                  WP Lockhart             J van Rensburg      Penberthy family     NF Peverett         H Lund

                  FW van Niewkerk     Chomse family       REH Overy             T Budge            E Finlay

                  Larson family

Annual Library Stocktaking

To all members with books, magazines or videos currently on loan from our Library. Would you please return these at the next meeting to enable us to do our annual stocktaking exercise. We are attempting to get all the relevant information onto computer and need the items to accomplish this.