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Current
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SEPTEMBER 2010
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September 2010
(2.4MB)
Reunited in
California Part
1, by Jack
Eastman;
September Skies,
Dennis Cochran;
President's
Corner;
September New
Astronomer's Den
starchart;
September
Speaker - Jamie
Lomax; Perseus
report by Ron
Pearson. Images:
Alan Erickson's
H-alpha Elephant
Trunk; Perseid &
Orion photos by
Ron Pearson;
IC1318 -
Butterfly
Nebula, by
Darrell Dodge.
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August 2010
(2.51MB)
August Skies,
Dennis Cochran;
President's
Corner from
Alaska; August
speaker: Dr.
James Green and
the Hubble ST;
New Astronomers
Den for August;
Picnic pics, Joe
Gafford; Black
Holes. Images by
Darrell Dodge
(M31), Steve
Solon and Brad
Gilman (Moon)
and Joe Gafford
(Cat's Paw
Nebula).
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July 2010
(2.8MB)
July Skies, by
Dennis Cochran;
Warming Hut
Rescue;
President's
Corner; July
Speaker:
Archeoastronomer
Herman Bender;
Images by
Darrell Dodge
(M8, Trifid
Nebula), Steve
Solon (Virgo
Cluster), Pat
Gaines (Comet
McNaught 2009
R1), and Alan
Erickson (M20,
Lagoon Nebula).
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June 2010
(1.7MB)
June Skies;
President's
Corner; Space
Day at DMNS;
June Speaker:
Tim Pimentel on
Solar Observing;
Jack Eastman on
RTMC 2010.
Images by Brad
Gilman and Ron
Pearson.
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May 2010
(1.8MB)
Clark-Saëgmuller
Sticky RA-Lock
Mechanism
Repair, Aaron
Reed; Comet
Eastman-Edwards-Gardner,
Jack Eastman;
President's
Corner, Ron
Pearson; May
Skies, Dennis
Cochran.
AstroPhotos:
Tail of the
Swan, Alan
Erickson; The
Neanderthal
Nebula, Steve
Solon; Siamese
Twins, Joe
Gafford.
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April 2010
(1.9MB)
April Skies; Ron
Pearson's
President's
Corner; Steve
Solon to present
at April
Meeting; "Take
It from the
Beginning," new
beginners
outreach
program, by
Steve Solon; DAS
astro images by
Pat Gaines, Alan
Erickson, and
Joe Gafford;
Space Day at
DMNS; NASA's
traveling Lunar
Exhibit; Deadly
Planets.
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March 2010
(3.0MB)
To Larry, with
Love: Tributes
to Larry Brooks
from DAS
members; March
Skies;
President's
Corner; 2010
Spring Banquet
reservation and
preview; Bubble
Nebula and
Christmas Tree
by Steve Solon;
Herschel Space
Observatory.
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February 2010
(1.4MB)
Goodbye to
President
Emeritus, Larry
Brooks; cover
image: Integral
Sign Galaxy by
Joe Gafford;
Strasburg
observatory
takes shape;
DAS scope loans; February Skies;
President's
Corner; Dr.
Jennifer Hoffman
February meeting
speaker; David
Wolf's Mars;
Steven Solon's
M43; general
election and
spring banquet
announcements.
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January 2010
(1.9MB)
January Skies;
President's
Corner; Tribute
to Hank Rael;
Visit with Past
President Carla
Swartz, Jack
Eastman; "Wish
Upon the Sky" by
Dennis Cochran;
Dr. Suzanne
Metlay on NEOs
at the January
Meeting. Images:
The Moon, Steve
Solon;
California
Nebula, Joe
Gafford.
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December 2009
(2.8MB) (S&S
Optika Inserts)
Colorado
Astronomy Day
Photos;
Easy-View Mount;
Astrophotos by
Joe Gafford,
Steve Solon, and
Dave Wolf;
President's
Corner; December
Skies; Mines
Gets a Scope;
Holiday Potluck.
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November 2009
(2.18MB)
First
Timer at Okie-Tex,
Jack Eastman &
Joe Gafford;
November Skies,
Dennis Cochran;
President's
Corner; Dave
Wolf's Jupiter;
Membership
Renewal News;
Holiday Potluck
Announcement.
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October 2009
(1.7MB)
Presidents
Corner: This
Summer at Meyer-Womble
Observatory;
October Skies;
Making an AL
Observing Club
Proposal;
Spitzer, the
Sequel; Joe
Gafford's Mu
Cephei Nebula
Cloud; Steve
Solon's Gamma
Cygni Nebula
Region.
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September 2009
(2.6MB)
WAA, A
Brief History,
by Jack Eastman;
September Skies,
Dennis Cochran;
President's
Corner, by Ron Mickle; Colorado
Exploradome,
Craig Betzina;
Joe Gafford's
Cat's Paw; Steve
Solon's M4; IYA
Imaging; Aaron
Reid on
Chamberlin
Renovation at
October Meeting.
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August 2009
(1.1MB)
Seeing Is ...
Seeing, Jack
Eastman; Van
Nattan-Hansen
Awards; August
Skies;
President's
Corner; Recap
of Laura Dafoe
presentation; Siefert's Sextet
by Joe Gafford;
M64 by Steve
Solon.
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July 2009
(1.5MB)
Big
Bear
Reminiscences, by
Jack Eastman;
Ron Pearson's
"Heart of the
Scorpion"; July
Speaker, Mark
Bottorff;
President's
Corner, Ron
Mickle; Tips for
Submitting
Images, Steve
Solon; July
Skies, by Dennis
Cochran.
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June 2009
(1.1MB)
First
Encounter with a
BIG Telescope,
by Jack Eastman;
June GM
Speaker: Laura
Dafoe on the
ESA's Descent
Imager/Spectral
Radiometer;
Public Outreach;
June
Skies;
President's
Corner; Bruce
Blair Medal
Winner; NASA
Space Place.
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May 2009
(1.3 MB)
Monitoring
Progress at
Chamberlin;
Remembering
Libby Everhart;
Messier Marathon
2009; Changes at
RMSS; May
Skies by Dennis
Cochran;
President's
Corner; Joe
Gafford's
PK164+31.1; May
Speaker: Keith
Gleason, by
Keith Pool.
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April 2009
(1.5 MB)
Tribute to Sandy
Shaw; April
Skies by Dennis
Cochran; Ron
Mickle's
Presidents
Corner; Spring
Banquet; Philip
Good, April
General Meeting
Speaker; New
Clark-
Saegmuller
Telescope
Operators; Flame
& Horsehead
Nebulae, Steve
Solon; Joe
Gafford's Comet
Lulin tail
disconnection
images..
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March 2009
(1.3 MB)
Archeoastronomy
of the Chacoan
Pueblo - Part 2,
by Ron Mickle;
new E-Board and
officers photo;
Ladies' Night
Out, by Wayne
Kaaz; March Skies by
Dennis Cochran;
images by Joe
Gafford and Phil
Good; banquet
info; AL CORner.
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February 2009
(992KB)
Archeoastronomy
of the Chacoan
Pueblo, by Ron
Mickle, Holiday
Potluck photos,
February Skies,
President's
Corner, DAS
Imagers Gallery,
Spring Banquet
Plans.
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January
2009 (1.02 MB)
Atacama
Large Millimeter
Array, Part I,
by Ron Mickle;
Ron Pearson's
Moon-Venus-Jupiter
Conjunction; New
CCA Observatory;
Presidents
Corner; January
Skies.
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December 2008
(933KB)
Atacama Large
Millimeter
Array, Part I,
by Ron Mickle;
Steve Solon's
M31; December
Skies;
President's
Corner; Naomi
Pequette on Archeo-Astronomy
at January
Meeting; Leavitt
book review;
Holiday Potluck
info
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November 2008
(570 KB)
Colorado
Astronomy Day
Wrap-Up and
Photos; November
Skies;
President's
Corner
(Auction);
Upcoming
Meetings
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October 2008
(1.4 MB)
Colorado
Astronomy Day
Preview; New
Open House Team
Leader;
President's
Corner; October
Skies; Joe
Gafford's
Elephant Trunk;
Phil Good's
Horsehead
region.
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September 2008
(1.2 MB)
ALCON Report,
2008 Van
Nattan-Hansen &
Horkheimer
Awards; Star
Stare Photo
Album;
President's
Corner,
September Skies,
Phil Good's
Cocoon Nebula.
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July 2008
(1,7MB)
DAS
Imager Profile:
Joe Gafford,
July Skies, Mark
Bottorff "Dark
Matter" preview,
Renewal Date
Update, DAS
Member Picnic,
astrophotos by
Phil Good, Joe
Gafford, Bryan
Wilburn
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June 2008
(2.7MB)
Steve Solon's
Rosette Nebula,
Presidents
Corner, June
Skies, Stephanie
Pahl's Analemma
presentation at
June General
Meeting.
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May 2008
(783KB)
Summer is Star
Party Time, Phil
Good Astro
Imager Profile,
May Skies, New
DAS Renewal
Date,
President's
Corner, Cover:
Phil Good's M31.
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April 2008
(1.6MB)
Van
Nattan-Hansen
Scholarship,
Steve Solon
Imager Profile,
Chuck Carlson's
"Heavenly
Intrigue,"
President's
Corner, April
Skies, Cover:
Joe Gafford's
Whirlpool Galaxy.
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March 2008
(1.2MB)
Marathon Days!
Annual Spring
Banquet, Phil
Good's M13,
March Skies,
President's
Corner, Messier
Marathon Part 2,
DAS E-Board
Election Results
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February 2008
(4.6MB)
Phil Good's
Monkey Head Nebula;
February Skies;
Presidents
Corner; David Grinspoon to be
February
Speaker; Messier
Marathon Part
One; New Member
Area on Web Site
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January 2008
(1.8MB)
"Image(ine)
That," Part III
by Steve Solon;
January Skies;
David Wolf's
Pleiades,
January speaker:
Michael Carroll,
space artist.
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December 2007
(2.5MB)
"Image(ine)
That," Part II
by Steve Solon,
December Skies,
Joe Gafford's
Comet Holmes,
Comet 17/P
Holmes Gallery,
President's
Corner.
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November 2007
(961KB)
November
Skies; "Image(ine)
That", Part I by
Steve Solon;
President's
Corner; Holiday
Potluck News;
Phil Good's
Bubble Nebula.
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October 2007
(1.1MB)
October
Skies, Dave
Wolfe's North
American &
Pelican Nebulae,
October Meeting
Speaker,
Colorado
Astronomy Day
Report,
President's
Corner, In
Defense of
Department Store
Telescopes.
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September 2007
(854KB)
ALCON 2007
Report,
September Skies,
President's
Corner, Colorado
Astronomy Day
Preview, Naomi
Pequette's NYAA
Award, Cosmic
Cockroaches,
images by Steve
Solon, Joe
Gafford & David
Wolf.
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August 2007
(922KB)
August
Skies; Phil
Good's Crescent
Nebula; VP's
Report;
Astronomy
Week/Ferris
Pre-Screening
Flyer
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July 2007
(558KB)
July Skies;
President's
Corner, July
Speaker Max Moe
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June 2007
(1.1MB)
June Skies,
M104, guest speakers
for summer, Ron
Mickle receives
honor, DAS in
the news, Summer
friends
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May 2007
(1MB)
May Skies, News,
"Becoming an AL
Master Observer,"
Darrell Dodge.
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April 2007
(1MB)
Messier Marathon
Report, John
Bally preview,
Banquet report,
black hole
breakfast,
Messier Images
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March
2007 (1MB)
Orion's
Astrophysics
Laboratory,
Messier Marathon
preview and
observing hints.
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February 2007
(4MB)
Phil Good's M42
image, Jim
Holder's Dusk
and Daytime
finder charts;
Time, DST and
April 15th
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January 2007
(3.5MB)
Year in Review
Photo Album,
Mark Bottorff
preview, Space
Weather for Air
Travelers
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December 2006
Mercury Transit
Report and Photo
Album, Colorado
Astronomy Day
Report.
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November 2006
Ron Pearson's
Mercury Transit
preview, Dark
Site update,
Promoting the
DAS
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October 2006
Mercury Transit
observing
information,
Pleiades
Occultation
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