2014 Astronomy Day

[merle]

The Minnesota Astronomical Society would like to invite you to attend the Astronomical League’s Astronomy Day activities at the Eagle Lake Observatory in Baylor Regional Park. Speakers are scheduled throughout the day and will give talks on astronomy and what there is to see. Door prize and raffle drawings will be held Saturday evening and include MAS merchandise, astronomy books and telescopes. Weather permitting, the evening will conclude with tours of the night sky and of course stargazing.

Schedule of Events
Saturday May 10, 2014

1:00 Daytime Activities beginning at 1:00 pm Solar observation, daytime viewing of Venus (before 4:30 pm), the Moon, Mercury, Jupiter and Mars.

Scheduled Speakers in the HotSpot Classroom
2:30 Merle Hiltner
Topic: Tour the Eagle Lake Observatory. From concept to construction, learn about the new equipment and facilities at the MAS’s premier public outreach facility.

3:30 Bill Arden
Topic: The Star we live by. With all our talk about stars, it’s time to take a close look at the one that’s really the closest – our Sun. Much of what we know about the way stars work has been learned by studying the star we live by. We’ll talk about the Sun’s place in the Solar System, how we observe the Sun, what we see when we look, and what’s going on beneath the surface.

4:30 Bob Kerr
Topic: Mystery Moons of the Solar System. So far, we’ve discovered 175 moons orbiting the planets of our solar system. They’re all sizes, and eighteen, including earth’s moon, are large enough to be considered planets. Many show curious surface features and unexpected geology like geysers, volcanoes, and lakes. We’ll talk more about these mystery moons, and you can see some of them in tonight’s sky through the observatory telescopes, weather permitting.

5:30 Dinner Break

7:00 Sarah Komperud and Parke Kunkle
Topic: Cosmic Zoom with the Bell Museum and Planetarium . Status report on the new Bell Museum and Planetarium followed by a virtual trip to the edge of the Universe and back.

8:00 Door Prize Drawing

8:30 Raffle Prize Drawing

10:00 Ron Schmit will be giving a laser guided constellation tour of the night sky (weather permitting)

Evening Activities
The evening will continue with viewing through our array of telescopes. Mercury, Jupiter, the Moon, Mars and Saturn will top the list of astronomical delights.



Additional info on this years Astronomy Day can be found at http://theaquanauts.info/events/astronomy-day/


Thanks and we hope to see you on May 10.

[trekr200]

I would be coming from Red Wing. Can we camp there so we don't have to drive back so late?

Thanks,
Mike

[Enberg]

@Mike, Baylor Regional Park has a campground (reservations recommended on weekends).
http://www.co.carver.mn.us/departments/ ... amping.asp