August 2017

Financials:

Beginning balance July 1, 2017 $2018.77

Donation to Bartlesville Public Schools Foundation toward purchase of solar eclipse glasses for schools, July 13, $100.00

Ending balance July 31 $1918.77

Vicky also filed Form 990-N (e-postcard) which is an electronic filing requirement for small tax-exempt organizations, to IRS for fiscal year 2016-2017.

Vicky also mailed in the Oklahoma Form 512-E, OK return of Organization Exempt from Income Tax, for fiscal year 2016-2017.

Rick collected money and distributed T-shirts to those who had ordered the youth shirts designed for the eclipse.

The Club has received a donation of a beautiful quilt of the solar system, twin-bed size or a bit larger, titled "World Waiting to Be Reborn". Created by Reba Terry from Tulsa in 1988. We discussed options of what to do with it-donate it the library or another non-profit organization in town; raffle it; silent auction. If do raffle or silent auction could open up to the community in addition to Club members.

Rick and LaShawn have received scopes from the Astronomical League which they are going to donate to the library.

Visitors: Had several visitors.

Upcoming events:

Eclipse related-

The Bartlesville Library Youth Services is hosting eclipse-related events for students (before school starts) next week Monday and Tuesday. Fran Stallings will tell mythological lunar stories on the Tuesday and one of our members volunteered to present (using a kit LaShawn has) and answer questions about the eclipse on the Monday.

Girl Scout Camp event at Wah-Sha-She Sept. 29 at 8 pm. Will have to go out earlier than that for telescope setup.

Annual rocket launch Sept. 30 in Pawhuska. The Bartlesville Youth Astronomy group will launch rockets and any other interested persons will be welcome to attend.\

Next meeting:

Evan Zorn is organizing the next meeting for Thursday, Sept. 7 (as Sept. 4 is Labor Day). Topic will be solar eclipse experiences. He will look for 4-5 people to present about 10 minutes each-experiences and/or pictures and/or videos.

Daryl's recent images:

Jupiter June 19 with two moons and shadows

Jupiter June 20 highlighting red spot and bands

Jupiter June 26 highlighting moon movement

Jupiter June 27 with one moon

July 28 Saturn east of Scorpio

Aug 5 Sun, taken with orange filter from Thousand Oaks. Image had a sunspot. He said that the longer you have your exposure, the more corona you see.

Abby's news highlights:

Jupiter red spot, taken by Juno mission, flyby 500-600 miles above the storm. The red spot is 1.3 times as wide as Earth.

Image of Mars with a "blue dot"-the Curiosity rover

Image of Saturn's moon Epimetheus taken by Cassini

Image of the Sunflower Galaxy, Messier 63, taken by the Hubble

Image of NGC 2500 in Lynx constellation. Still forming new stars!

The majority of stars in our galaxy come in pairs. Astronomers have identified 18 extreme mass-ratio binaries in the Large Magellanic Cloud. The more massive ones weigh 6-16 times as much as the Sun, and the less massive ones weigh 1-2 times as much as the Sun.

Pretty image of Messier 77 in Cetus.

Image taken by Hubble of a "dead disk" galaxy not forming stars. An example of gravitational lensing.

Spiral Galaxy NGC 1512, the Nuclear Ring, taken by the Hubble. Two rings connected by dust.

Pretty image of Messier 63

Image of brown dwarfs with masses of 13-80 Jupiters

Saraswati supercluster of galaxies, one of the largest structures in the universe

Main program: The Apollo Missions by Karen Cruce-a Brief History of Man's Quest to Explore the Moon

Oct 4, 1957: Launch of Sputnik, a 23-inch, 220-lb. sphere by the Russians

Jan 31, 1958: Explorer 1 launched by the U.S.

Mercury program, 1958-67: 28 unmanned, 6 manned missions

May 25, 1961: JFK's famous speech about putting a man on the moon and bringing him safely back to earth, before the decade is out.

Gemini program 1964-66, 9 missions

Apollo program 1967-72, 17 missions. Final 3 lunar landings scrubbed due to focus on the war in Vietnam and other more "worldly" concerns.

Jan 27, 1967: Fire on the spacecraft of Apollo 1, killing Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee. They perished in an environment of pure oxygen at 167 PSI in a spacecraft with a sealed hatch. A cry of "fire" was heard inside the spacecraft. A spark took flame in the pure oxygen environment; the temperature inside the spacecraft reached 2500 degrees. The astronauts died of asphyxiation.

Apollo AS-201 Feb 26 1966. A suborbital test of the Saturn 1B service module and command module heat shield.

Apollo AS-203 July 5, 1966. Unmanned command and service module test including trans-lunar engine restart.

Apollo AS-202 Aug 25, 1966 Unmanned Saturn 1B with command and service modules; test guidance system and new fuel cells

Apollo 4 July 9, 1967 Test Saturn V including docking

Apollo 5 Jan 22, 1968 Saturn 1B, test lunar module ascent and descent engines

Apollo 6 April 4, 1968 Saturn V. Had problems with the translunar injection capability

Apollo 7 October 11, 1968

Apollo 8 Dec 21-27, 1968 Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, Bill Anders. Launch with Saturn V, unforgettable trip to the Moon, famous picture taken by Bill Anders of Earthrise, and safe re-entry through the narrow re-entry corridor.

Apollo 9 March 3-13, 1969. James, McDivitt, David Scott, Rusty Schweickart. Launch with Saturn V, Practice docking of "Gumdrop" and "Spider" and simulated lunar walk in earth orbit; test space suits.

Apollo 10 May 18-26, 1968. Tom Stafford, John Young, Gene Cernan. Launch with Saturn V, fly to the moon and practice all maneuvers except the actual landing.

Apollo 11 July 16-24, 1968. Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Michael Collins. Launch with Saturn V, first lunar landing. Touch and go at the last minute until they could find a safe place to land. "That's one small step for (a) man, one giant leap for mankind." Total lunar walk time was over 2 ½ hours.

Apollo 12 November 11-24,1969. Charles Conrad, Alan Bean, Richard Gordon. The Pinpoint mission, landing by Surveyor 3. Spent 10 hours longer on the Moon than Apollo 11.

Apollo 13 April 11-17, 1970. Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, Jack Swigert. Abandoned the free return option en route to the Moon in order to try to land at Fra Mauro-but that was before the explosion. A triumph of astronaut and Mission Control brains, creativity and courage as failure was not an option.

Apollo 14 Jan 31-Feb 29, 1971. Alan Shepard (only his second space mission), Ed Mitchell and Stuart Roosa. Went to Fra Mauro, where Apollo 13 had hoped to land.

Apollo 15 July 26-August 7, 1971. Dave Scott, Jim Irwin, Al Worden. First lunar mission to use the Lunar Roving Vehicle. Came home with "Genesis Rock".

Apollo 16, April 16-27, 1972. John Young, Charlie Duke, Ken Mattingly. First mission to land in the lunar highlands. Brought back a number of breccia rocks, which are rock composed of fragments of other, older rocks.

Apollo 17, December 7-19, 1972. Gene Cernan, Harrison Schmitt, Ron Evans. Landed in Taurus-Littrow highlands. Harrison Schmitt was the first "scientist-astronaut" on board for this geologically-oriented mission.