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MARCH 26, 2010 - General Membership Meeting
Portage Lakes Kiwanis Civic Center
8:00PM
- Call to order and introduction of tonight's guest speaker:
Ron Kalinoski, Observatory Director of the ACA. Ron brought an enormous
amount of materials to explain and demonstrate the fine art of amateur telescope
mirror grinding. Included in the talk were techniques, theory and testing
devices and how they all work together to produce a parabolic mirror used in a
Newtonian
reflector telescope. The knife-edge testing apparatus was
fascinating. As always, Ron's talk was packed full of information.
Click HERE for additional information.
9:10PM - Brief coffee-break
/ discussion time.
● Members looked over the materials Ron brought and
discussed some of the requirements of mirror grinding
9:25PM - Business meeting
called to order and included the following:
● Treasurer's Report
● Club account balances
● Savings realized by
moving to a different insurance company
● Observatory Director's Report
● State of the Observatory
● Mention of the attempts
to observe at the 3/20/2010 event which was completely clouded out
● Preparation for Messier
Marathon on April 10 - just two weeks away
● New Meade diagonal finishes
the job of allowing the Club 14" to swing through the forks and reach the zenith
● Mentioned the unused items from the
Observatory auctioned at the last meeting
● Calls for observations
● Several clear nights
recently allowed numerous celestial observations
● Long time member Lou
Poda mentioned multiple ISS passes he observed
● New Business
● Round three of
the "Lease agreement wars" between the State of Ohio and the ACA
● Mark Kochheiser, Statutory Agent, received the latest version of the
lease agreement offered by the State of Ohio.
This lease is for the property in the Portage Lakes State Park where our
observatory resides
● The Board will have to meet to discuss the terms and decide if it is an
agreement we can live with.
● NOMINATIONS of OFFICERS
occurred as detailed below:
● President - Dave Jessie
● Vice President
- Tom Mino and Gary Smith have both decided to run
● Treasurer - Lew Snodgrass
● Secretary - Mary Pickelsimer
● Assistant Secretary-Treasurer - Rosaelena Villaseñor
● Publications Secretary (aka Newsletter Editor) -
Jason Shinn
● ELECTION of
OFFICERS to occur at the next ACA meeting on
4/23/2010 at 8:00pm
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