March 17, 2014Regular Meeting

Agenda

•Jim Sweitzer: Green Astronomy•Treasurer’s report•Events since last meeting•Star Party planning•Announcements•Lunar eclipse demo•MAS 40th Anniversary

Seeing Little Green Things from Space on St. Patrick’s Day — Without Even Drinking Anything!

Jim Sweitzer

January 20

January 29

January 30

January 31

February 1

February 4

February 10

February 16

February 17

February 25

March 1

Image: WNDU

Image: WNDU

March 1

Image: Kronos Quartet

March 7

March 9

Image: Steve Ingle

March 13

Image: Chris SwartzImage: Chris Swartz

March 14

Meadows Edge Elementary School

Image: Bing Maps

www.nightwise.org/blog/

PROPOSED St. Patrick’s County Park Centre Branch Library Harris Branch Library Mishawaka Branch Library Bittersweet Branch Library SJCPL (downtown South Bend) Jewish Federation of St. Joseph Valley

SCHEDULED: Tropical Overnighter (March 21-22) NIRSEF judging (March 22) MAS Regular Meeting (April 21) AstroFest (May 2) AstroCamp (June 20-26)

March 21-22

Optional IUSB Observatory visit

Kronos Quartet

at DeBartolo

NIRSEFat ND

RegularMtg.

First Friday

Cosmospremiere

Kronos Quartet

Kronos Quartet

Vernal Equinox

TropicalOvernighter

Regular Mtg.(MAS Election Nominations)

TotalLunarEclipse

Star Party Weekend

AstroFestat

Kennedy

Astronomyat

St. Patrick’s Park

April 15

Image: Fred Espenak

(Penumbral Eclipse Begins: 00:53 EDT) Partial Eclipse Begins: 01:58 EDT Total Eclipse Begins: 03:06 EDT Greatest Eclipse: 03:46 EDT Total Eclipse Ends:  04:24 EDT Partial Eclipse Ends: 05:33 EDT (Penumbral Eclipse Ends: 06:37 EDT)

MAS at

40

Project Starpath(EpiCollect app)

Image: Michael Zeiler