Tom Wideman is the coordinator this year and will be putting together a description of the events. I am assisting Tom by coordinating equipment assignments for the volunteers.
Here are the dates and topics for the introductory talks for each:
April 17: Planets and Telescope Clinic
May 22: Comets
June 19: The Summer Triangle
July 17: Globular Star Clusters
August 21: Lunar Observing
September 18: Andromeda
October 9: Planets
We plan to have different speakers for several of the events, but these assignments are not yet complete. FWAS members who would like to included as volunteer hosts at these events should contact Tom. FWAS members who would like to attend the events as guests should contact Copper Breaks State Park in Quanah one week prior to the event if they wish to camp overnight (park spaces are filled by around Wednesday prior to the Saturday events).
Linda Krouse is the Director of the Noble Planetarium at the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History, and she hosts the monthly star parties. Trista Opperman supports this by coordinating FWAS's volunteers who work the star parties.
The dates for 2004 are:
March 27, 2004
April 24
May 22
June 26
July 24
August 21
September 25
October 27 (a Wednesday for the Lunar Eclipse)
None in November or December.
2004 STAR PARTIES AT LAKE WHITNEY STATE PARK
February 21
March 20
April 24 ( 5th Annual Astronomy Day Celebration ) At the Rec-Hall
May 15
June 12
July 17
August 14 ( 5th annual Summer Star party ) At the Rec-hall