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	Fall Messier Marathon planned for November. See Page 9 for details! Got an idea for a new club logo? Send a sketch to Harry Bearman


	FWAS August Meeting is Beautiful at Botanic Center


	Welcome New Members! Raude Woods Don Welch Andy & Diane Lovejoy Eric & Sandra Milfeld

Our first meeting at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden Center was a great success! A large turnout of 60 members was there to see Celebrity Astronomer Death Match--Star Hoppers vs GoTo's. We met in the "Redbud" room, which has a nice window, kitchen with counter, white board/screen, and room enough for meeting essentials.

We were treated to a number of reports on Perseid observations, sunspot tracking, and asteroid watching. Preston Starr had been able to video asteroid 2002NY40, and the video was broadcast on CNN! Steve Richer also brought a set of NASA mission pins from the Mercury and Gemini missions.

The remainder of the meeting was a rousing match between Becky Nordeen (representing the star hopper crowd) and Doug Christianson (representing the

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	Observing Reports

Between 930pm CDT and 1000pm the asteroid was passing thru Lyra almost straight overhead. Dobs and alt az mounted SCT's are very difficult to aim straight up, but since I was polar aligned it was a much easier task.

Using the sky and telescope chart (see SkyandTelescope.com/observing/objects/asteroids/) I began tracking the mag 6 star shown between the Los Angeles and Boston tracks at the position where the

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	Saturday was a partial victory for the GOTO guy and a minor concession to the starhoppers. At the FWAS site, Harry, our exalted leader, on the big Dob and me on the polar aligned Meade LX200 8" SCT.