May's meeting featured a talk by Tom Fleming, a member of Sidewalk Astronomers and a 7th grade teacher at North Oaks Middle School.  Tom treated us to a number of photos of the sky that he has taken over the years from the various locations where he has lived.  Additionally, he put in a strong plug for the Association of Variable Star Observers and for solar observing.  It was a good talk to show how astronomy can take a lot or a little of your time!

A procedural reminder on your Sky & Telescope and Astronomy renewals:  When you are notified by the magazine that it is time to renew your subscription, you need to send the renewal notice and your check to FWAS, care of the Treasurer.  Also make the check out to FWAS, not the magazines.  To get the discount, the magazines need to get it from the club.

Next month's program will be brought to us by our own Sallie Teames.  She will share with us her presentation on "Signs of Eta Carinae Outburst in Artifacts of Ancient Bolivia" that she gave to AAVSO In Hawaii.

For those of you who haven't been, each year at the Texas Star Party, there is an observing list developed with some specific theme.  This year's observing list was called "Seeing Double" , featuring a list of galaxies that had two in the same field of view.  Many or most of these were actually interacting, and there was another more difficult list of advanced interacting objects (that were too tough for me and my little ole' 11" dob!).  The Tadpole shown above is an example of such an interaction.

In addition to the observing lists, there were companion talks during the afternoons/evenings on what the objects are and how they behave.  These were quite interesting and gave a lot more meaning to the faint fuzzies sitting there in my eyepiece at 3:00 in the morning!

I would like to credit the guys at TSP who gave these presentations and did the excellent  lists, but

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