2002 UIAS Activities

This page is a brief listing of some of the activites the club has undertaken recently, listed in reverse chronological order.

Date	Activity
December 2	Club meeting, Professor Dickel gave a talk on the history of Astronomy at UIUC, and Mike Lockwood gave a demo of the 5" project scopes
November 18-19	Leonid meteor shower. Good turnout and decent visibility this year
November 14	Club meeting, special joint meeting with the CUAS club
November 4	Club meeting, amateur telescope making presentation
November 1	Observatory open house
October 21	Club meeting, presentation on CCD astrophotography by club member John Stone
October 18-19	Telescope training session I and II
October 7	Club meeting, held an outdoor observing session at the observatory instead of our usual meeting
October 6	Dark site cookout and star party
October 4	Observatory open house
October 2-3	Telescope training session II
October 1	Telescope training session I
September 30	Telescope training seeion I
September 24	UI professor Jim Kaler gave a great talk on general astronomy topics
September 23	Club meeting, made plans for dark site trip, gave an Astrofest summary, etc.
September 12-15	Around 10 club members participated in Astrofest 2002 in Kankakee IL
September 9	First club meeting of the semester, gave intro presentations etc
September 6	Observatory Open house
August 27	Quad day! Several club members setup a booth at quad day and signed up interested people for the club and added them to the email list. We also had people doing solar observing over at the observatory as an open house for much of the day.
August 12	Perseids meteor shower! Several club members went to the dark site to watch the meteor shower. The weather was so-so with some patches of clouds for part of the night, but we got to see a few very bright meteors through the night along with the occasional satellite and various other astronomical goodies.
May 3	Observatory open house
April 17	Professor Dickel's class went out to the dark site to view all 5 of the naked eye planets in a line, which only happens this nicely once every 40 years or so. Severl club members joined the trip and brought along 4 or 5 telescopes and binoculars to view them with.
April 6-7	John Dobson the famous amateur astronomy popularizer came to visit with us and gave nice lectures on cosmology, telescope building, and joined us on the night of April 6th for a star party at the observatory along with many members of the CUAS club.
March 25	Club meeting, with a workshop on "Amateur Telescope Making" presented by Mike Lockwood.
March 11	Club meeting, with a "CCD Imaging and Image Processing" workshop presented by John Stone.
March 8-9	2002 Engineering Open House, the club presented projects on "Space dust collection", "Webcam-based astrophotography", and "Sounds of space".
March 1	Observatory Open House, saw Jupiter, Saturn, the Orion Nebula, lots of great stuff!
February 25	Club meeting, with a "Film Astrophotography" workshop presented by Amy Eisin.
February 11	Club meeting, with a talk by UI Professor You-Hua Chu on "Stellar Forensics -- Circumstellar Nebulae Illuminated by Young Supernovae".
February 1	Observatory Open House, saw Jupiter, Saturn, the Orion Nebula, lots of great stuff!
January 28	Club meeting, 8pm Room 134 Astronomy Building. Stuart Levy will be giving a "Learn the Sky" workshop.
January 14	First club meeting of the semester, gave talks on Webcam-based astrophotography and Engineering Open House topics.

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