We have established the Beginners Special Interest Group meeting schedule for 2015. Although the classroom sessions are informative we have heard that the field trips are very valuable for the experience of the attending a star party, using equipment and learning the night sky. In past years we have tried to have field trips but the weather has not been very cooperative.
This year we are instituting something new for the field trips. We have scheduled eight field trips (twice as many as last year) in hopes of scoring at least a few good nights. Any field trips that are cancelled will have a classroom session the next day. Please note that the classroom session will only be held IF the field trip is cancelled.
Here is the B-SIG schedule for 2015:
- • January 17 – Location: Maplewood Library – 10 AM
- o Planning an Observing Session / Show and Tell
- o Telescope Part I – Telescope Clinic
- o If cancelled - March 21 – Location: Golden Valley Library
- Telescopes Part II
- o If cancelled – April 18 – Location: TBD
- Telescopes Part II
- o If cancelled – May 16 – Location: Golden Valley Library - 10 AM
- Observing the Planets
- o Make your own Solar Filter / Solar Observing
- o Sun and Stellar Evolution / Solar Observing
- o B-SIG Picnic Saturday, August 22
- o If cancelled – September 12 – Maplewood Library - 10:30 AM - Noon
- Celestial Mechanics and the Sun/Earth/Moon System
- o If cancelled – October 10 – Location: Champlin Library - 9:30-11:00 AM
- Celestial Mechanics and the Sun/Earth/Moon System
- o Telescopes Part II - Useful gadgets to ask Santa for
Clear skies!
Dave Falkner and Nancy Rauschenberg
Co-Moderators - Beginners Special Interest Group
