June General Meeting June 14th, 2001 Members attending: 13 Meeting MC'd by: Geoff Burch, President - New T shirts have arrived - Geoff briefly described the Astro 101 plan - Gentleman stopped by at Day in the Park, has LX-50 for sale, approx. $1500 - Dave bought new logbook for dome and case to keep it in. He also photocopied the old logbook. Members who use the dome are encouraged to use the logbook to record what was viewed, number of members, problems with dome and equipment, number of skywatch visitors, etc. - Taste of C-U this weekend - Getting new tent for events was briefly discussed - No constellation of the month - Astro 101: Constellations. Jeff Bryant, Vice President, explained what constellations are and some of their history. - Dave Leake showed excellent panorama of a mosaic of photographs showing Milky Way - The main program for the meeting: Bob Robendunst showed how to construct barn-door mounts for astrophotography. He brought in some hardware to give away, and a few people built their mounts out in the lobby. ----------------------------------- -- -*- -*- -*- -*- -*- -*- -*- -*- -*- -*- -*- -*- -*- -*- -*- -*- -*- Philip J. Wall "Anemia job!" said the fleep@shout.net unemployed vampire.