Cub Scout Outing Friday Night (April 25) at 7:30
This is the event we talked about last week. There will be 20-30 Cub Scout ages 7-10 with 1 adult per 3-4 boys. It is at First Church of the Nazarene in Beebe. They will be cooking hot dogs and burgers and we are welcome to join them for that. They have a parking lot available for us to set up and it sounds like it has a reasonable view. There will be electricity nearby if you need it. My contact, Brenda, asked if we needed extension cords but I figured anyone who did would bring their own.
Here are the directions from their web site: http://beebenazarene.com/directions.html
The church is located at 104 Campground Road in Beebe, Arkansas. Just take exit 31 off of Hwy 67/167 and follow Hwy 31 South. Go all the way through town and cross the railroad tracks. Go 1/4 of a mile and turn left on Campground Road. Proceed about 1/4 mile, and you will see the church on the right. We’re at the corner of Campground Road and Apple Street.
They would like us to do a regular star party, showing the boys what we can that evening.
I won’t be able to attend but several of you indicated you could probably help. Please let me know if you can.
Minutes from the April CAAS Meeting
John Reed called the meeting to order at 7:20, the nice weather and good food enticed us to run late. There were 25 members and visitors in attendance.
John told us about several upcoming start parties:
- The Nebraska Star Party on July 25th (http://www.nebraskastarparty.org/)
- The Texas Star Party on June 1 (http://www.texasstarparty.org/index1.html)
- The All-America Star Party (date unknown).
Closer to home, the Red River Astronomy Club is having one of their Burger Burn star parties on May 3rd.
On May 10th, CAAS will join the Pinnacle Mountain State Park to hold an Astronomy Day event. We’ll start at 2 PM for solar observing and bubble making and then later we’ll have scopes out for night time astronomy. Since this event falls on our normal meeting night, we will hold a short business meeting before the night time events start.
For our presentation, Rocky Togni gave a very interesting presentation on “space” stamps. Postage stamps that were created with space travel themes, mostly real but some fanciful. It was very entertaining and afterward he gave out stamps to the children there.
Afterward we went to the observing field and socialized and observed.
Jim Dixon
Regular Monthly CAAS Meeting
Join us this coming Satuday, April 12th at 7 PM, for the next CAAS meeting. We will be at our normal location, River Ridge Observatory. If you need directions, click the contact button.
The meeting will be preceded by a potluck dinner at about 6 PM.
Presentation: The Space Race and Philately by Rocky Togni  Â
Timothy Ferris opened his book “Seeing in the Dark� with the excitement of the late 50’s and Sputnik. Living near Cape Canaveral (Now Cape Kennedy) he witnessed many of the U.S. launches in those exciting early days. The Space Race between the United States and Russia served to propel the technologies of both countries and you could say substituted for the Nuclear war between the two super powers that fortunately never happened. It also propelled many youngsters into technological careers and hobbies such as Astronomy. Rocky Togni will present the Space Race as seen through the stamp issues of each country at our regular monthly meeting Saturday April 12. There will be Space stamps for all kids who attend.