Club News and Notes

   All TVS star parties are posted to our web site. For school star party updates, contact Phil Waide at 925/455-6039.

Hidden Hill Observatory (H₂O) Open House
May 8, June 5, September 18, and October 16.
Meet at Mines and Tesla at 6:00 p.m.

Hopkins Junior High School, Fremont
May 22 at 8 p.m. (note new date, also see story)

Riverside Telescope Makers Conference
May 28 to 30, near Big Bear Lake

Sycamore Grove, Livermore 
June 12 at 8 p.m., New Moon
July 17 at 8 p.m. and August 21 at 8 p.m.
Sept. 11 at 7 p.m., New Moon

White Mountains
Grandview: Thursday, July 8
Barcroft: July 9 - 12 (New Moon is July 12.)

Glacier Point, Yosemite
August 13 through 15

Camp Shelly, Lake Tahoe
August 6 to 8, and September 3 through 6.

Hopkins star party date change

   In conjunction with Astronomy Day and the reopening of the Hopkins Junior High School Planetarium, 600 Driscoll Road, Fremont, we have rescheduled this school star party to May 22. The planetarium was built during the Sputnik education boom of the early 1960s, but fell into disuse and disrepair in the 1980s as a result of Proposition 13 and subsequent vandalism.  Thanks to some eager Mission High School students and the Math/Science Nucleus, the planetarium is being refurbished and readied for school and public shows.  (The Math/Science Nucleus is a Fremont-based non-profit organization serving science research and education.)
Club president Dave Anderson is a Project ASTRO partner at Hopkins.  He is also a member of the Task Force that includes teachers, students, and other community representatives.

   The planetarium show and star party will be well-publicized, so attendance should be good.  We will need a lot of telescopes.  Those bringing telescopes should arrive by 8 p.m. The star party begins at 8:30. From the Livermore area, take I-680 south to the first Mission Blvd. exit.  Go right (north) on Mission.  Take a left on Driscoll Road.  Hopkins will be on your left after a couple blocks. Please come to Fremont to celebrate Astronomy Day.   (Continued on Page 6)

President
Dave Anderson
510/661-4249

Vice President
Chris Cody
707/747-6550

Secretary
Marilyn
   Halberg

Treasurer
Mike Anderson

Directors

Alane Alchorn
Dennis Beckley
Jim Brown
Rich Combs
Chuck Grant
Kathleen Kelley
Russ Kirk
Signe McIntire
Dave Rodrigues
Debbie Scherrer
Jess Squires
Norm Thomas
Phil Waide
Jim Zumstein

Observatory
Director
Chuck Grant
grant@
hooked.net

Editor
Alane Alchorn
925/455-9464
Fax: 925/
455-9466
circlewing@
aol.com

Librarian
Chris Cody
707/747-6550
cmcody@Beniciaastro.org

Eyes on the
Skies
Mike Rushford
http://www.
hooked.net/
~tvs/eyes/

Website
http://www.
hooked.net/~tvs/

Meeting
Location
Unitarian
Universalist
Church in
Livermore
1893 N. Vasco Rd.
3/4 mile north
of I-580

E-mail
tvs@hooked.net

Tri-Valley
Stargazers
P.O. Box 2476
Livermore, CA 94551
Membership:
Renewals in process.

Tri Valley Stargazers thanks Xerox Corporation for its continuing support of amateur astronomy in the public interest. Prime Focus editions are printed courtesy of Xerox Corporation and Mike Spreitzer.

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