{"id":4138,"date":"2018-06-07T08:36:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-07T13:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/austinastro.org\/?p=4138"},"modified":"2018-06-07T08:36:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-07T13:36:00","slug":"general-assembly-meeting-on-friday-june-8-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/austinastro.org\/index.php\/2018\/06\/07\/general-assembly-meeting-on-friday-june-8-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"General Assembly Meeting on Friday, June 8, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">At our June general assembly meeting, we will not be having an invited speaker. We will be premiering a new feature presentation. \u00a0We\u2019re calling this Planetarium Night. This will be a composite of short presentations by our club members of some of their favorite observing targets. \u00a0Our goal is to share our knowledge about some of the coolest objects to be found in the current season and how to locate them. We\u2019ll use Stellarium to show the best strategies for star hopping to the targets, and we\u2019ll demonstrate what you can expect to see through various telescopes.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The following members will present at our<b> <\/b>first Planetarium night:<br \/>\n<b>Domingo Rochin: Four comets visible over the next several months<br \/>\n<\/b><b>Anshuman Garga: The Orion Nebula<br \/>\n<\/b><b>Shubhanga Ballal: Messier 82 aka the Cigar Galaxy<br \/>\n<\/b><b>Terry Phillips: Messier 104 aka the Sombrero Galaxy<br \/>\n<\/b><b>Terry Phillips: The Mars Experience Part 1<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Everyone is welcome to attend our General Assembly meetings. You do not need to be an AAS member to attend.<\/p>\n<p>For more information including directions, see\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/austinastro.org\/index.php\/event\/aas-general-assembly-meeting-on-friday-june-8-2018\">this event page<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At our June general assembly meeting, we will not be having an invited speaker. We will be premiering a new feature presentation. \u00a0We\u2019re calling this Planetarium Night. This will be a composite of short presentations by our club members of some of their favorite observing targets. \u00a0Our goal is to share our knowledge about some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-default"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/austinastro.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/austinastro.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/austinastro.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/austinastro.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/austinastro.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/austinastro.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/austinastro.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/austinastro.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/austinastro.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}