HAS Monthly Meeting

Event Date

Trini Mendenhall Community Center

Meeting room open at 6:00pm. Come join us for some social time before the Novice Meeting at 6:30pm. Light refreshments will be served.

General Meeting: 7:15 PM
Bill Pellerin – Observing Variable Stars

Bill will talk about how to observe, both visually and with a CCD camera, variable stars and how to report the data you gather to the AAVSO. The goal of the presentation is to provide the NHAC members with enough information to begin taking variable star data of their own.

Bill in Observatory cropped

Bill Pellerin Bio. Bill's professional career included designing electronics for offshore aids to navigation and managing computer systems for several large corporations in Houston. Highlights as an amateur astronomer include:

  • Past President – Houston Astronomical Society, 2013-2014
  • Astronomical League award for best newsletter (HAS) 2012
  • Author – ‘’Observing Stellar Evolution” Astronomical League program
  • AAVSO (American Association of Variable Star Observers) member – over 3500 observations submitted since 12/97
  • Member – McDonald Observatory Board of Visitors
  • System management and operations (with Bill Flanagan and Walt Cooney) -- Madrona Peak Observatory (24” RC Optical telescope system)

Bill’s favorite telescope is a TeleVue refractor (not shown).

 

 

Novice Presentation – 6:30 pm. Justin McCollum
Comets and Meteor Showers

Meeting Location: Trini Mendenhall Community Center

1414 Wirt Rd, Houson, TX 77055

                  Free parking in the lot in front of the TMCC

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Columbus Current Weather
Today, April 18, 2024

Sunset: 07:51 P.M.
End Twilight: 09:14 P.M.

Tomorrow, April 19, 2024

Dawn: 05:29 A.M.
Sunrise: 06:51 A.M.

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