July 2008 |
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| 1 | 11:00 a.m. | Mercury at greatest elongation west (22º). |
| 2:00 p.m. | Moon at perigee (222,898 miles). | |
| 2 | 7:19 p.m. | New Moon. |
| 4 | 12:00 a.m. | Earth at aphelion (94,304,564 miles). |
| 9 | 1:00 a.m. | Jupiter at opposition. |
| 9:35 p.m. | First Quarter Moon. | |
| 13 | 9:00 p.m. | Moon at apogee (251,380 miles). |
| 10:00 p.m. | The Moon is 4º from Antares. | |
| 16 | 9:00 p.m. | The thin crescent Moon, Venus, and Saturn group together low in the west. |
| 11:00 p.m. | The Moon is 5º from Jupiter. | |
| 18 | 12:59 a.m. | Full Moon. |
| 20 | 5:00 a.m. | Neptune just 1º from the Moon. |
| 25 | 11:42 a.m. | Last Quarter Moon. |
| 27 | 5:00 a.m. | The crescent Moon is 2º from the Pleiades (M45). |
| 28 | 1:00 p.m. | S. delta Aquarid meteor shower peaks. |
| 29 | 1:00 p.m. | Mercury in superior conjunction. |
| 4:00 p.m. | Moon at perigee (225,607 miles). | |
| 31 | Mercury at greatest heliocentric latitdue north. | |
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August 2008 |
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| 1 | 3:12 a.m. | New Moon. Total Solar Eclipse visible in the Arctic regions of Canada & Greenland. |
| 2 | Venus at greatest heliocentric latitude north. | |
| 8 | 1:20 p.m. | First Quarter Moon. |
| 10 | 1:00 p.m. | Moon at apogee (250,824 miles). |
| 12 | 4:00 a.m. | Perseid Meteor Shower peaks. |
| 15 | 8:00 a.m. | Neptune at opposition. |
| 16 | 2:16 p.m. | Full Moon. |
| 23 | 4:49 p.m. | Last Quarter Moon. |
| 24 | Mercury at descending node. | |
| 25 | 9:00 p.m. | Moon at perigee (228,591 miles). |
| 28 | early morning | For the next two weeks, look for the Zodiacal Light in the east before morning twilight. |
| 30 | 12:58 p.m. | New Moon (lunation 1060). |
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January |
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TVS Members; "Member's Night" |
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February |
15 |
TVS Members; "Total Lunar Eclipse Tips" |
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March |
21 |
Dr. Steve Croft: "Big Black Holes and the Evolving Universe" |
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April |
18 |
Hope Ishii: "The Stardust Mission" |
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May |
16 |
Richard Crisp: "Emission Line Imaging" |
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June |
20 |
Dr. Adrian Brown: "Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter" |
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July |
18 |
Summer BBQ |
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August |
15 |
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September |
19 |
Adrianne Cool: "Globular Clusters" |
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October |
17 |
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November |
21 |
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December |
19 |
Holiday Potluck |
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TVS Lectures 2007 |
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January |
19 |
TVS Members; "Astronomy Software" |
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February |
16 |
Dr. Imke de Pater; "Dusty Rings in Our Solar System" |
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March |
16 |
Friedemann Freund; "The Nature of Organics in Interstellar Space" |
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April |
20 |
Brian Day; "NASA's Spaceward Bound" |
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May |
18 |
Margaret Race; "Detecting Extra-Terrestrial Life" |
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June |
15 |
Summer BBQ |
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July |
20 |
Peter Beyersdorf; "LIGO and the Search for Gravitational Waves" |
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August |
17 |
David Williams; "The VERITAS Project (Gamma-Ray astronomy)" |
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September |
21 |
Marina Shmakova; "Gravitational Lensing" |
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October |
19 |
Dr. Graeme Smith; "Globular Clusters" |
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November |
16 |
Ken Sperber; "I’ve Discovered Three Asteroids—Not! But They’re Still Cool. . . |
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December |
21 |
Holiday Potluck |
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TVS Lectures 2006 |
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January |
20 |
TVS Members; "Show and Tell" |
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February |
17 |
Tom Estill; "Chabot Space & Science Center" |
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March |
17 |
Dave Dearborn; "Danger: Asteroid Crossing" |
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April |
21 |
Virtual Ed Krupp; "Under Nile Skies" |
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May |
19 |
Eclipse Night! |
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June |
16 |
Summer BBQ |
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July |
21 |
Rich Combs; "Anecdotes on the History of Amateur Telescope Making" |
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August |
18 |
Naishi Min; "Vemarsjusa" |
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September |
15 |
TVS Members; "Scope Maintenance Night" |
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October |
20 |
Andrew West; "Why Do Galaxies Look the Way They Do? A Multiwavelength Approach to Galaxy Evolution" |
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November |
17 |
TVS Members; "Mercury" |
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December |
15 |
Holiday Potluck |
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TVS Lectures 2005 |
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January |
21 |
Ron Bissinger; "A Distributed Global Observing Network and the Mystery of Extrasolar Planet TrES-1b" |
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February |
18 |
Dr. Sergei Nikolaev; "3D Geometry of the Large Magellanic Cloud" |
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March |
18 |
TVS Members; "How to Put on an Astronomy Program" |
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April |
15 |
Naishi Min; "Chinese Astronomy" |
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May |
23 |
Dave Dearborn; "Flash-Bang: How stars behave when we do not stereotype them as spheres" |
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June |
17 |
Jürgen Wolf; "The Sofia Project" |
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July |
15 |
TVS Members; Summer BBQ Potluck |
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August |
19 |
Norm Sperling; "Astronomy's 'Little Unification' " |
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September |
16 |
TVS Members; Auction, A Little Night Sky, and Scope Mainentance |
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October |
21 |
Ron Bissinger; "Astronomy in the National Parks" |
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November |
18 |
TVS Officers, Board, Members; "TVS Town Hall Meeting" |
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December |
16 |
Holiday Potluck |