CUAS Meeting, 7PM August 8th, 2001, Staerkel Planetarium

Members attending: 18
M.C.'d by Geoff Burch, President
Special Guest: Dr. Jim Kaler, astronomer at UIUC

- Geoff started the meeting by reading announcements

- Saturday Aug 10th members will go out to the dome for the Perseid
meteor shower.

- Saturday Aug 18th will be a work day at the CUAS dome. Volunteers
needed. Later that night will be members only skywatch.

- Sept. 1st will be Weekend Wizards at the Orpheum Children's Museum,
featuring astronomy and activities for families. Volunteers needed.

- Sept. 6th: free preview of Night Lights planetarium show, to be
preceded by Dave doing a presentation on light pollution. Show by
Waylena. Officials from Champaign, Urbana, Savoy, and UIUC will be
invited RSVP, plus club members encouraged to attend.

- Sept. 17th: Bob O'dell will give a talk on using the Hubble Space
Telescope to image the Orion Nebula and the Helix Nebula. This event is
free, sponsored by CUAS.

- Aug. 25th: family skywatch.

- T shirts with the club logo and Astronomy 2002 calendars
still available.

- Astro 101 and Constellation of the Month were skipped to allow
more time for Jim Kaler's talk.

- Dr. Kaler gave a talk on the formation and life cycle of stars.