SOUTH SHORE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

BOARD MEETING

Aug. 9 2008

12:00 PM

 

1. Financial and Membership Update

$2467.02 as of 8/09/08

(not including $165 to Astronomical League $250 for insurance)

            30 paid members with about a dozen at monthly meetings

 

2. 50th Anniversary celebration

            Dinner Saturday Sep 27, 2008 (for now) at the Norwell Council on Aging

Alternatives:

            Louis Gentile will check using the First Parish Church function room

            Tenney Doble will check the BR Restaurant in Halifax

           

            Pictures and other historical records:

            Bill Luzader and Paul Grueter will meet at Louis Gentile’s on

            Sunday August 17 at 1 pm to work on club history PowerPoint

 

3. Possible club trips:

            Almost any weekend - StarPort in NH

            Rockland StarParty near Arunah Hills and Stellaphane in August 2009

 

4. Discussed purchase of a LCD video projector ($600 and up) for the club.

            Wait and use borrowed projector until price decreases - months

 

5. What to do with the home-made club telescope (12 inch reflector)

            Louis Gentile will test the waters for selling online

 

6. Paul Grueter suggests that a computer program AMSCO

            will help the observatory project at Plymouth schools

 

7.  Future speakers for Wednesday meetings:

            Renewed club member, Michael Myers (computer teacher)

 

1:15 pm adjourned to PICNIC