Atlanta Astronomy Club

kosmickow writes "The June meeting of the Atlanta Astronomy Club will be held on Friday June 5th, 2009. Meeting starts at 8PM. Location is White Hall on the Emory University Campus. Room 207. Directions on how to get to there are at the bottom of this article.

The meeting starts with the monthly announcements power-point program that will run before the meeting starts and at the very beginning of the meeting. After that, we move on to our featured speakers of the night. Tom Faber and Keith Burns of the Atlanta Astronomy Club will be giving a talk titled, “Satellite Hunting.” Tom is the real expert on Satellites. Keith is just a novice Satellite picture taker who has learned by making many mistakes. After the talk is finished, we will do our business meeting. If you have any announcements you want included in either the announcement power point or talk about at the meeting, please contact the president at president@atlantaastronomy.org. He is the one who creates the monthly announcement power point plus he can schedule you time at the meeting.

Satellite Hunting: You look up at the night sky night from time to time and see these points of light moving across the sky. Tom and I will talk about what they are. We will give you tools you can use to find out when and where to look up to see them. It’s not as complicated as it sounds. If you have a desire to capture pictures of these manmade objects, I will give you tips and techniques to use to do that. There will be lots of pretty pictures for you to see to. Plus a few not so pretty ones just to prove a point. No telescope required! Warning, this can become addictive.

For Bio info, please read your June Focal Point. It is available for free download at the website www.atlantaastronomy.org. Look on the main page for May Focal Point annoucement and click on the link. It's a PDF. So you need the free adobe read to read the newsletter.

July Meeting Announcement

July 11th, Art Russell will talk about Planetary Nebula.
August 7th, Speaker and Topic TBA.
September 11th, Speaker and Topic TBA.

Directions to Emory University
From Interstate 20 Eastbound
Take exit 60-A, the Moreland Avenue exit. Turn right on Moreland and follow it approximately 3 miles. Moreland will change to Briarcliff Road once it crosses Ponce de Leon Avenue. Continue straight on Briarcliff approximately 2 miles to North Decatur Road. Turn right and follow North Decatur one mile to the Oxford Road intersection.
From Interstate 20 Westbound
Take exit 60, the Moreland Avenue North exit. Turn right on Moreland and follow it approximately 3 miles. Moreland will change to Briarcliff Road once it crosses Ponce de Leon Avenue. Continue straight on Briarcliff approximately 2 miles to North Decatur Road. Turn right and follow North Decatur one mile to the Oxford Road intersection. Turn a soft left to enter by the main gates of the campus.
From Interstate 75 North or South
Take exit 248-C, the Freedom Parkway exit. Cross Boulevard; continue on Freedom Parkway; veer left at split; continue until it ends at Ponce de Leon Avenue; then turn right. Off Ponce, turn left on Briarcliff Road. Go approximately 2 miles to North Decatur Road. Turn right and follow North Decatur Road one mile to the Oxford Road intersection.
From Interstate 85 South
Take exit 91, the Clairmont Road exit. Turn left (east) on Clairmont and follow it approximately 3 miles to North Decatur Road. Turn right and follow North Decatur approximately one mile to the Emory campus.
Where to park at Emory University?
For now, the best places to park are the Peavine Parking Deck and the Fishburne Parking Deck. The Fishburne deck is located on Fishburne Drive which is accessible from N. Decatur Rd and turn onto Dowman and then right on Fishburne. You can also access Fishburne Drive from Clifton Road southbound North. Decatur Rd. Fishburne Drive is the last traffic light intersection before you get to the intersection of North Decatur Rd and Clifton Road.
The Peavine parking deck is accessible from North Decatur Road. You turn onto Oxford Road. Take that to back entrance of Emory and turn onto Eagle Row. Take that to the Peavine Parking lot/deck. You can also access the Peavine deck from Clifton Road. You turn onto Asbury Circle. It’s the intersection next to the railroad tracks on Clifton Road.
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