South Shore Astronomical Society, Norwell, MA

September 5, 2007 convenes at 7:30 PM

18 members present

Presentation

Report on Stellafane amateur astronomer gathering in Springfield VT

http://www.stellafane.com/

Preview of “Seeing in the Dark” PBS program to be shown on September 19

http://www.seeinginthedark.org/

Old Business

 1. Report on the Persied Meteor Shower Viewing at Centennial Field Sunday August 12: Good viewing until clouds suddenly covered everything

2. Report on Scituate Light House Viewing: – Louis Gentile and Alden Wells had about two dozen people stop and look through telescopes at the Scituate Harbor Festival on Saturday August 3

New Business

1. Viewing nights at Centennial Field for September – 8th and 15^th

2. October Meeting presentation at Council on Aging at 7:30 pm:

Charlie Haffey

NASA Solar System Ambassador

The Galileo Spacecraft Explorations of Jupiter

Other Business

1. Skyscrapers North Scituate RI AstroAssembly Sep 28-29 Peter Schultz banquet speech Saturday evening

http://www.theskyscrapers.org/

2. Clay Center at Dexter-Southfield Schools in Brookline events:

http://www.dexter-southfield.org/podium/default.aspx?t=10561

a. National Solar Tours Open House Oct 6 Saturday 10 am – 4 pm

b. Weather Festival Sat Oct 27 Saturday 10 am to 3 pm

c. SSAS plans to visit the observatory at the Clay Center on Tuesday Oct 16 (“rain” date of Oct 23) starting at 6:30 pm

3. Steve LaFlemme in Bridgewater – Alden Wells has been there and suggests that everyone accept Steve’s offer to visit his observatory in Bridgewater

Open Topics

Spacetrack (artificial satellite & asteroid program) will not run if you do not accept the associated cookies – Mal MacDonald

Adjourn 8:30 pm