Sacramento Valley Astronomical Society

Here are the results of the March 19, 2010 SVAS election:
President: Ross Gorman
Vice President: Walt Heiges
Secretary: Charles Real
Treasurer: Kirk Alexander
Directors:
Molly Gallagher
Perry Preston Porter
Lynda Hall
Terry Sandbek
Forrest Lockhart
Gary Shuluk

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SVAS Election Time
The annual election of Officers and Directors takes place Friday, March 19 at Sacramento City College, Room 3 at 8:00pm. Only members in good standing as of the January general meeting will be given a ballot. All members and prospective members are encouraged to come to the meeting to learn about what is in [...]

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 Will Lynda ever finish hers?

by Lynda Hall
 
Thanks to Lonnie, I’ve been inspired to finish the mirror and scope I started   about 6 years ago at Cary Chleborad’s telescope workshops. I’m almost finished making my own mirror and am ready to start designing the scope itself.
   For those interested in the mirror-making process, I started with [...]

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Let’s build a large Lightweight Dobsonion Telescope
 
Part 1 of 4      by Lonnie Robinson      LonRobie@surewest.net
 
INTRODUCTION
 John Dobson really started something with his Dobsonian “DOB” telescope design.  He enabled the average Amateur Telescope Maker “ATM” to create a very large and very stable telescope with common workshop tools.  Since then DOB’s have evolved from a boxy heavy structure [...]

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By Patrick L. Barry and Dr. Tony Phillips
       About 900 light years from here is a rocky planet not much bigger than Earth. It goes around its star once every hundred days, a trifle fast, but not too different from a standard Earth-year. At least two and possibly three other planets circle the same star, [...]

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