The Stockton Astronomical Society (SAS) meets on the second Thursday of the month in the Olson Hall, Room 120 at the University of the Pacific at 7:30 pm. Visitors are welcome.

    A monthly star party is usually held on a Saturday near a new moon.

Coming Up     [view SAS Sky Calendar  (117.3KB PDF file) January 2012]

Sunday, January 8 -- Full Moon
Thursday, January 12 at 6:30 pm -- Nineteenth Annual SAS Installation/Recognition Dinner
Saturday, January 14 at 10:00 am -- ATM Workshop
Saturday, January 14 at sunset -- Highway 4 Star Party
Saturday, January 21 at sunset -- High Altitude Star Party
Sunday, January 22 -- New Moon
Friday, January 27 at 7:00 pm -- Sky Tours at Delta College -- (new Shima (S2) parking lot)

See the SAS Eclipse Page for information regarding the May 20, 2012 annular eclipse.

SAS News

Members and Guests of the Stockton Astronomical Society
are cordially invited to the
Nineteenth Annual SAS
Installation/Recognition Dinner
Thursday, January 12, 2012
at the China Palace Restaurant
5052 West Lane, Stockton
(in shopping center at SE corner West Lane & March Lane)
No-host bar 6:30 p.m., dinner at 7:00 p.m.
$20 per person, including tax and gratuity.
 
After dinner speaker:
Don Machholz: Comet Hunter Extraordinaire
"July 2012 Apparition"

Periodic Comet Machholz 1 (P96), discovered by Don in 1986, will return in July 2012. This was the third of his 11 comet discoveries. Don will talk about his comet hunting program, now in its 38th year, and what we can expect to see in July.

 

Pre-paid dinner reservations must be received by January 10, 2012.
Use the dinner coupon on page 11 of the newsletter.
Mail with check for $20 per person to: SAS, P.O. Box 243, Stockton, CA 95201

 

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