Details of club meetings.
Three items as follows: (1) Elections The first order of business: running the annual election. Due to a mixup, at first Percival Lowell was not listed as Observatory Directory Emeritus (as traditionally happens at each election). This oversight was corrected at the last minute. The only contested position was Observatory Directory. So each club member…
(1) Elections. (2) D. C. Moons (Lowbrows). A short talk about the Moon. D. C. Moons During the meeting there were two short talks, one by D. C. Moons and one by Mark Deprest. In addition the annual elections where held at this time. Here D. C. Moons talks about the moon. Club members listening…
Fred Adams (UM Physics & UM Astronomy). “Into the Dark, The Long Term Fate of the Universe.” Lorna Simmons, Lifetime Member of the IDA Enlargement of previous photograph. Lorna Simmons shows that she is a Lifetime Member of the International Dark-Sky Association (the IDA is an organization devoted to reducing light pollution). For more information…
John Kirchhoff (Rider’s Hobby Shop). A “goodies” demo. John Kirchhoff and the Meade LXD55 EMC The meeting was held at Peach Mountain. We often hold the July meeting at Peach Mountain, as there are problems with parking if we hold the meeting at our usual location (there is a major event in Ann Arbor each…
Ratification of By-laws John Causland with By-Law Star At the September 2002 meeting, a committee was formed to create new by-laws for the club. After a few months of effort, draft by-laws were created. At this meeting, the club approved these by-laws with a unanimous vote. Kathy Hillig (not shown) gave each committee member a…
D. C. Moons (Lowbrows). Removal of the 24” mirror from the McMath telescope. On July 14, 2002, a group of Lowbrows met at Peach Mountain Observatory. Both the primary and secondary mirrors were removed and then transported to Chicago where the mirrors were then recoated. Due to the size (and weight) of the McMath telescope,…
Roger Tanner (Lowbrows): Prototype of a new Mars Camera On July 26, 2002 we had a special meeting of the Lowbrows. Roger Tanner was the guest speaker. Until a few years ago, Roger was an engineer at Ford and an active member of the Lowbrows. That is, until he decided to devote more time to…
(1) John Causland (Lowbrows). Demonstration of Astronomy Software, “Deep Space Explorer.” Our Meeting Place, The Dennison Building (also known as the Physics/Astronomy Building) on University of Michigan’s central campus. (2) Elections. Lowbrow president D. C. Moons presiding over the meeting. Bernard Friberg (facing away from camera) in the front row. (3) Astronomy Swap Meet. Kathy…
Clayton Kessler (Lowbrows). “Shooting Stars.” Clayton talked about astrophotography. He wrote an article on the same subject:Clayton Kessler. (August 2001). “Simple Astrophotography.” Reflections of the University Lowbrow Astronomers, pp. 1-3. [Here] Return to list of all meetings.
(1) Clayton Kessler (Lowbrows). ATM show and tell. (2) Mark Deprest: Beginning astrophography. (3) Clayton Kessler: Intermediate astrophotography. The University Lowbrow Astronomers has a meeting once a month. (4) The Brown Jug After the meeting, the Lowbrows typically go to the Brown Jug for food and conversation. These photographs where taken July 14, 2000. Photo…
April 21, 2000: John Kirchoff (Rider’s Hobby Shop) “Recent Developments in Amateur Astronomy Hardware.” John Kirchoff brought a van load of demo items including some of the very latest and greatest. Among them: The Teleview 38mm Type 5 Nagler! [No words can describe the eyepiece to end all eyepieces!] The Orion “giant” telescope binoculars 25…
March 17, 2000: Various Lowbrows. Presentation of various observing accessories. There were six different presentations as follows: John Causland presented his I3 Piece (Image Intensified Eyepiece) made by Collins Electro Optics. (See also Dennis di Cicco. February 1999. “Intensifying Your Viewing Experience.” Sky and Telescope. pp. 63ff.) Clayton Kessler showed his Taurus Tracker and the…
February 18, 2000: Mark Vincent (Lowbrows). “Ten days in an upside-down world, or whatsa Lowbrow doin’ at the South Pole.” Dr. Mark Vincent stayed for 10 days at the South Pole. He worked on the Viper telescope which is designed to study the cosmic microwave background radiation at millimeter wavelengths. What makes Viper so interesting…
Three topics… (1) Paul Walkowski (Lowbrows). “Globular Clusters.” Paul wrote an article which covers the same topic as his talk. See:Paul Walkowski. (April 1999). “Concerning Clusters.” Reflections of the University Lowbrow Astronomers, pp. 2-4. [Here] (2) Elections. (3) Tom Ryan (Lowbrows). “The Null Testing of Mirrors.” Return to list of all meetings.
Patricia (Sandy) Whitesell (UM, Director and Curator, Detroit Observatory). “The University of Michigan Detroit Observatory: Its History and Restoration.” In spite of the name, the Detroit Observatory is located within the University of Michigan central campus in Ann Arbor. The observatory building was completed in 1884 and 110 years later, in 1994, it was still…