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If you can't make the meeting you now have an opportunity to see the presentation.
We'll be posting them here, either in PDF form or in Microsoft Word. We'll also use
Quick Time or Media Player movies when needed! You can find
Adobe Acrobat reader here to see the PDF files.
January 2007 Club Meeting
January 2007 main presentation "Comet McNaught"
(Presentation is in outline form, future presentations will be posted with detail)
Quick time Movie showing Venus and Mercury at Sunset from 12/1/06 to 2/28/07
Quick time Movie showing the orbits of the inner planets from 12/1/06 to 2/28/07. The view is as if we are looking down onto the Solar System. Note the line of sight from Earth to Venus, Mercury and the Sun.
Quick time Movie showing the orbit of Comet McNaught as viewed from the plane of the Solar System, from 12/1/06 to 2/28/07
Quick time Movie showing the orbit of Comet McNaught as viewed as if we are looking down onto the the Solar System, from 12/1/06 to 2/28/07
All movie files were created with "The Sky-Student Edition" software
February 2007 Club Meeting
March 3, 2007 Lunar Eclipse
February 2007 main presentation
      "The Twins, a Small Dog, and an Unicorn"
A picture review of Comet McNaught
March 2007 Club Meeting
No Presentation
April 2007 Club Meeting
Meeting Outline
The Springtime Sky
Finder Scopes
Earth's Other Moon
May 2007 Club Meeting
Use the Moon to find 5 Planets
Jupiter with the naked eye
Observing the moons of Jupiter
Strange Objects in the Universe: Black Holes
Jump into a Black Hole
Flash Files from a really cool NASA website!
And look
here too.

They may take a moment to load.
Drop a watch into a Black Hole
Weigh a Black Hole
Orbit a Black Hole