A trustee meeting was called, primarily to discuss meeting location alternatives.  The Fort Worth Museum of Science and history is going into an expansion/renovation program shortly, which will make our current meeting room unavailable.  Increasing demands for the facility have been on the rise, making our routine use of the room more difficult.

A number of alternative locations were suggested, and some research performed.  Places like the nearby Botanic Gardens and local area colleges are being considered.  If you have any good ideas for a meeting location, please forward them to Becky Nordeen at banordeen@earthlink.net.  It should be noted that getting a new location may also lead to a new meeting day.  Instead of the 3rd Thursday of the month, we may move to a Tuesday. 

The decision should be made in time to relocate the June meeting.  When details have been finalized, all FWAS members will get a special mailing notifying them of the new date/time/location.

The solar spectrum projector (SSP) is up and running, and it works beautifully-- razor-sharp images of the white light sun and its spectral absorption lines. You can see the spectral absorption lines fairly well on one of the posted pictures, though there is much more definition in the lines than the camera captured. The building informally first opened to the public Feb 28, and the formal opening is going to be April 6.   

The URL for the MOVC construction and SSP photos is http://stardate.as.utexas.
edu/wren/taec/TAEC_press/index.html