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In-Reach for Members

Saturday March 30, 7:30 p.m.

Chamberlin Observatory

2930 E Warren Avenue, Denver

"Using Cassiopeia As A Guidepost"

In-Reach Coordinator Bill "Mr. Bill" Stevens will teach us how to use the constellation Cassiopeia to find other constellations using his "Cassiopeia Guide Post" hand out and hands-on training.  Mr. Bill will provide two or three telescopes, describe how to use them safely and with care.  A pair of binoculars will also be available, and he asks you to bring your own binoculars if you so desire.

This In-Reach event will be very informative for members who are new to astronomy, and a good refresher for those who have not observed in recent years.

Be sure to dress in layers in case the temperatures drop, and feel welcome to bring snacks for yourself or to share with others.

Due to requests from several members, there is now an Amateur Telescope Maker (ATM) forum. It's a place for builders, tinkerers and thinkers to post their projects, ideas, plans, and questions.

** Please note that the In-Reach originally scheduled for Saturday, February 23rd, 2019, has been cancelled. 

By acclamation, here are the 2019 election results for the Executive Board of the Denver Astronomical Society. The new officers and trustees will be installed at the Spring Banquet on Saturday, March 23, 2019.

• Officers
• • President - Ed Ladner
  • Vice Pres. - Dena McClung
  • Secretary - Joanne Cusick
  • Treasurer - Scott Perrin
  • Past Pres - Ron Hranac
• Trustees
• • July Candia
  • Jason Cordova
  • Jack Eastman
  • Joe Gafford
  • Ivan Geisler
  • Joe Godwin-Austen
  • Ed Scholes
  • Chris Ubing

Tim Pimentel

2019 Nominations/Election Chair

To increase DAS members' opportunities to socialize before and after our upcoming Spring Banquet, we have arranged to start earlier and finish later than has been usual in the past: The expanded times now start 5:30 PM, and end at 10:00 PM (dinner is at 7:00, as before). 

DAS News for February is on our website, at https://www.denverastro.org/?page_id=3766, along with the rest of the articles for the February 2019 Observer.  In the News, we have notes on the upcoming DAS Election (you can still run for office!), the Spring Banquet, the upcoming 125th Anniversary of the Chamberlin Observatory, our new In-Reach Coordinator, and some nice shots of the recent lunar eclipse.

DAS' annual Spring Banquet is scheduled for Saturday March 23.  Online registration is now available!  Please go to https://members.denverastro.org/event-2957758 to register and choose from new menu items, as well as getting all the details.  We look forward to seeing you there!

February Outreach 2019 UPDATE posted. Please see "Outreach Events" Forum. More volunteers welcome! 

Hello PN Teams (and DAS members),

July Candia is on PN Team 4 on Thursdays (T#4 is assigned every 2 weeks). She started a new travel job here in Colorado (contract lasts until 5/2/19) and will likely not be able to make it to Public Night. Please let us know if you can cover any of these dates:

2/14, 2/28, 3/14, 3/28, 4/11, 4/25

We have four people on Team 4: Brad Gilman (scope), Joe Kozic (scope), Ken Sturrock(scope, presenter), July Candia (scope, occ. presenter). So, if you could help with the telescope or presentation, or even with traffic flow in the dome that would be great. 

Team 4 is in a bit of trouble because sometimes Ken has to go out of state for his job and Brad will be busy with tax season, so he may have to miss PN as well.

Email July.Candia@gmail.com if you can help.

The Spring Banquet registration is now open for portal members.

We will still support members who wish to mail in their payment inside the portal, and we will be sending out physical invitations to our members who are unable to access email.  These physical registrations must be received by the Treasurer on or before March 15th.

Online registrations are open until March 18th 

Please click here to go to the Event Registration!

https://members.denverastro.org/event-2957758