2007 BSAS News Archive

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December 2007 Eclipse  12/3 - The December Eclipse is out! This issue includes reports from the October board and membership meeting, BSAS & astronomical event calendars for December and January, announcements of upcoming events and more!

Email subscribers have already been sent the link to the latest issues, and members subscribing to the print version should be receiving their copies in the mail shortly. Links to the three most recent issues are also conveniently posted in the BSAS Member Forum.

While current issues are available only to members, anyone can peruse the last five years of newsletters online in the Eclipse Archive.

November 2007 Eclipse  11/2 - The November Eclipse is out! This issue includes reports from the October board and membership meeting, BSAS & astronomical event calendars for November and December, announcements of upcoming events and more!

Email subscribers have already been sent the link to the latest issues, and members subscribing to the print version should be receiving their copies in the mail shortly. Links to the three most recent issues are also conveniently posted in the BSAS Member Forum.

While current issues are available only to members, anyone can peruse the last five years of newsletters online in the Eclipse Archive.

Seeing in the Dark, a film by Timothy Ferris  10/20 - The Barnard-Seyfert Astronomical Society held its October Membership Meeting on Thursday, October 18th at the Adventure Science Center in Nashville. The program included presentations by Dr. Donna Hummell, JanaRuth Ford, Steve Wheeler and Lonnie Puterbaugh.

Nominations were received for the annual election in November. Nominees were Dr. Terry Reeves for president; Keith Burneson for vice-president; Bob Rice for secretary; Randy Smith for treasurer; and Dr. Spencer Buckner, Tony Campbell, and Theo Wellington for the three director positions.

Thanks to everyone who attended, and we hope to see you all at the November meeting!


Barnard-Seyfert Astronomical Society  9/21 - The Barnard-Seyfert Astronomical Society held its September Membership Meeting on Thursday, September 20th at the Adventure Science Center in Nashville. We had several speakers this month, including our own Kris McCall, Joe Boyd, Lonnie Puterbaugh and new member Drew Gilmore. Their presentations gave us incredible front-seat perspectives of the technological immensity of the U.S. space program and the natural wonder of Barringer Crater. Atendance was excellent, and the discussions were lively and entertaining.

Thanks to everyone who attended, and we hope to see you all at our next event!


Tennessee Star Party  9/16 - The Tennessee Star Party ends today! The skies were occasionally spectacular, the speakers were consistently great, and the fellowship was wonderful as always!

Thanks to everyone who planned, volunteered, participated and attended this year!

September 2007 Eclipse  8/31 - The September Eclipse is out! This issue includes reports from the August board and membership meeting, BSAS & astronomical event calendars for September and October, announcements of upcoming events and more!

Email subscribers have already been sent the link to the latest issues, and members subscribing to the print version should be receiving their copies in the mail shortly. Links to the three most recent issues are also conveniently posted in the BSAS Member Forum.

While current issues are available only to members, anyone can peruse the last five years of newsletters online in the Eclipse Archive.

Barnard-Seyfert Astronomical Society  The Barnard-Seyfert Astronomical Society held its August Membership Meeting las Thursday, August 16th at Adventure Science Center in Nashville. Our speaker this month was Mike Benson, Chairman of the Southeast Region (SERAL) of the Astronomical League. Mr. Benson discussed the League's current projects and provided a video presentation of a recent AL trip.

Thanks to everyone who attended, and we hope to see you all at our next event!

July 2007 Eclipse  7/10 - The July Eclipse is out! This issue includes reports from the June board and membership meeting, BSAS & astronomical event calendars for July and August, announcements of upcoming events and much more!

Email subscribers have already been sent the link to the latest issues, and members subscribing to the print version should be receiving their copies in the mail shortly. Links to the three most recent issues are also conveniently posted in the BSAS Member Forum.

While current issues are available only to members, anyone can peruse the last five years of newsletters online in the Eclipse Archive.

Stoodie, by author and astronomer Taffy O'Neal  6/22 - The June Membership Meeting was held last night at the Adventure Science Center in Nashville.

We were fortunate to have as our speaker Miss Taffy O'Neal of Greenbrier High School in Robertson County, a winner of the BSAS-funded Astronomy Award at this year's Middle Tennessee Science and Engineering Fair.

Miss O'Neal will presented her winning project, "Star-Streak Photography for the Accurate Calculation of Stellar Declination," to a very appreciative audience. Miss O'Neal and her entourage stuck around to discuss her project and sign copies of Stoodie, her first novel.

Thanks for addressing us Miss O'Neal, and good luck in all your endeavors!

NGC 2146 from Spot Observatory, by Mark Manner  6/18 - the BSAS Annual Picnic was a HUGE success! Saturday night's gathering at Spot Observatory was well attended, with tables full of food, a field full of telescopes and a sky full of stars!

The seeing was wonderful all night, and gallons of Tennessee dew did nothing to dampen the spirit or shorten the party, the last members going home at 5:30am on Sunday.

Thanks to everyone who came and made this such a great day, and we hope to see you at our next event!

We've been HACKED!  6/13 - The BSAS website has been HACKED! Someone modified most of the website's files, adding links to another site in an apparent bid to increase traffic to that site.

We are currently working with our service provider to investigate the incident and hope to have more information soon. In the meantime, please bear with us as we reconstruct the affected parts of the site and get back on our feet. Thanks!

June 2007 Eclipse  6/2 - The June Eclipse is out! This issue includes reports from the May board and membership meeting, BSAS & astronomical event calendars for June and July, announcements of upcoming events and much more!

Email subscribers have already been sent the link to the latest issues, and members subscribing to the print version should be receiving their copies in the mail shortly. Links to the three most recent issues are also conveniently posted in the BSAS Member Forum.

While current issues are available only to members, anyone can peruse the last five years of newsletters online in the Eclipse Archive.

May 2007 Eclipse  4/30 - The May Eclipse is out! This issue includes reports from the April board and membership meeting, BSAS & astronomical event calendars for May and June, announcements of upcoming events and much more!

Email subscribers have already been sent the link to the latest issues, and members subscribing to the print version should be receiving their copies in the mail shortly. Links to the three most recent issues are also conveniently posted in the BSAS Member Forum.

While current issues are available only to members, anyone can peruse the last five years of newsletters online in the Eclipse Archive.

The 200-inch Hale Telescope at Palomar Observatory  4/20 - The April Membership Meeting was held on Thursday the 20th at the Adventure Science Center in Nashville. Our speaker was Lonnie Puterbaugh, avid amateur astronomer, accomplished astrophotographer and noted science outreach evangelist. Lonnie's presentation covered his recent visit to the observatory complex at Mount Palomar. Everyone enjoyed the presentation and learned a lot about the storied astronomical facility.

Thanks to Mr. Puterbaugh and everyone else who attended, and we look forward to seeing you all again in May!

The 200-inch Hale Telescope at Palomar Observatory  4/20 - The April Membership Meeting was held on Thursday the 20th at the Adventure Science Center in Nashville. Our speaker was Lonnie Puterbaugh, avid amateur astronomer, accomplished astrophotographer and noted science outreach evangelist. Lonnie's presentation covered his recent visit to the observatory complex at Mount Palomar. Everyone enjoyed the presentation and learned a lot about the storied astronomical facility.

Thanks to Mr. Puterbaugh and everyone else who attended, and we look forward to seeing you all again in May!

April 2007 Eclipse  4/4 - The April Eclipse is out! This issue includes reports from the March board and membership meeting, BSAS & astronomical event calendars for April and May, announcements of upcoming events and much more!

Email subscribers have already been sent the link to the latest issues, and members subscribing to the print version should be receiving their copies in the mail shortly. Links to the three most recent issues are also conveniently posted in the BSAS Member Forum.

While current issues are available only to members, anyone can peruse the last five years of newsletters online in the Eclipse Archive.

Oblique view of a brown dwarf binary system  3/16 - The March Membership Meeting was held on Thursday, March 15th at the Adventure Science Center in Nashville. Our guest speakers were Dr. Keivan Stassun, assistant professor of astronomy at Vanderbilt University and Erika Grundstrom of the Georgia State University Department of Physics and Astronomy.

A former NASA Hubble Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Dr. Stassun gave a wonderful presentation on the latest theories of star formation, and also discussed his co-discovery of 2M0535-05, the first known brown-dwarf eclipsing binary. The presentation was both enlighening and entertaining, and we are grateful to Jaime that he let his papa present it to us!

Erika Grundstrum's presentation outlined the exciting research she has done while compiling a spectroscopic survey of "Hot Stars with Disks"—Be stars hosting active and enigmatic gaseous equatorial disks. The Q&A discussion was lively, and Grundstrom's enthusiasm for her subject was quite contagious!

After finishing her Ph.D. at GSU, Erika Grundstrom will join Vanderbilt this fall on a LSI post-doctoral fellowship in conjunction with the Peabody College of Education and Human Development. We wish Erika great success with her thesis, and hope to have her with us again soon!

February 2007 Eclipse  3/1 - The March Eclipse is out! This issue includes reports from the February board and membership meeting, BSAS & astronomical event calendars for March and April, announcements of upcoming events and much more!

Email subscribers have already been sent the link to the latest issues, and members subscribing to the print version should be receiving their copies in the mail shortly. Links to the three most recent issues are also conveniently posted in the BSAS Member Forum.

While current issues are available only to members, anyone can peruse the last five years of newsletters online in the Eclipse Archive.

A stellar nursery in Orion  2/16 - The February Membership Meeting was held last night in the theater of the Adventure Science Center in Nashville. Our guest speaker was APSU astronomer Dr. J. Allyn Smith, who gave a wonderful talk on stellar evolution to a large and appreciative audience. Thank you for coming, Dr. Smith!

Next month, Vanderbilt astronomer and former NASA Hubble Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Dr. Keivan Stassun will speak to us about his own work, including the discovery of a rare brown-dwarf eclipsing binary. We hope to see you there!

February 2007 Eclipse  2/5 - The February Eclipse is out! This issue includes reports from the January board and membership meeting, BSAS & astronomical event calendars for February and March, announcements of upcoming events and much more!

Email subscribers have already been sent the link to the latest issues, and members subscribing to the print version should be receiving their copies in the mail shortly. Links to the three most recent issues are also conveniently posted in the BSAS Member Forum.

While current issues are available only to members, anyone can peruse the last five years of newsletters online in the Eclipse Archive.


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