NOVEMBER 18, 2016 - General Membership Meeting at 8:00 PM
will be at this location:

New Franklin City Hall  ← Our New Meeting Location !!!
5611 Manchester Road
Akron, OH 44319

               

 Please note that we ALWAYS encourage the public to attend ANY of our events, including meetings.
Come and enjoy the lecture and talk to us about astronomy!

We've moved this month's meeting to the third Friday to accommodate the Thanksgiving holiday.
This requires us moving the meeting to a different location to avoid a scheduling conflict at the Kiwanis Civic Center.

8:00 PM - Call to order and introduction of tonight's program: Speaker: Dr. Jay Reynolds, Cleveland State University Researcher and Instructor, and President of the Cleveland Astronomical Society Presentation: Amazing Pluto & The Dusk of Dawn   Jay Reynolds of Cleveland State University will present amazing discoveries of Vesta and Pluto! The latest discoveries from NASA’s New Horizon mission shows what’s new from one of the most interesting worlds ever explored! The spacecraft helped us to realize that the surface of Pluto is very young and its atmosphere more complex than ever thought. Reynolds will also offer some the final images and thoughts from Ceres, as the DAWN Mission takes its final bow. Some photos will be in 3D and require special glasses that will be provided. About our speaker: Dr. Reynolds: •  Serves as a Research Astronomer at Cleveland State University •  Is co-host on WKYC’s “In The Sky” with Jay Reynolds & Greg Dee •  Has been a contributing scientist to both Deep Impact & DAWN Asteroid Missions •  He is a regular contributor to 3 radio & 6 television stations •  Fox 8 has referred to him as “our area’s most visible scientist”          Click on the graphics to see the October 2016 edition of WKYC's "In the Sky"   To see one of the 3D images that Dr. Reynolds showed us during his excellent presentation, click here. Of course, you'll need to have your own "red-blue" 3D glasses to see the mysterious mountain Ahuna Mons on the asteroid Ceres in three dimensions. 9:00 PM - Brief coffee-break / discussion time   9:15 PM - Business meeting to be called to order and will include the following:   Meeting Agenda in a Microsoft WORD file   Meeting Agenda in a PDF file   ●  Treasurer's Report   ●  Observatory Director's Report   ●  Calls for observations   ●  New Business     Full set of slides shown in Dr. Reynolds' presentation are available HERE     Live Active Google Map:

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