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		<title>What&#8217;s Up In The Sky, July &#8216;08</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; It was an experience! What a wonderful afternoon Friday in Quail Ridge Park with fellow amateur astronomers from around the mid-west. This was my first convention, and I enjoyed talking with everyone I met.&#160; Given a weather menu to chose from no one could have topped the day we had either, for sure something [...]]]></description>
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		<title>June 7, 2008 event at Klondike Park</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While I was not at this event, I will record what was given me regarding this night.
The weather was great and the campers were well-aware of our scopes being set up at Klondike.    It was estimated that more than 75 people came thru  (before the count was lost when it got [...]]]></description>
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		<title>June 7, 2008 Cub Scouts at Cuivre River S.P.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As we had two events on the same night, we split forces at Klondike and Cuivre River.  Marvin Stewart and I took Cuivre River, knowing that Klondike was in good hands.
The skies were great on this Saturday night, but the clearing was fairly small.  We started setting up our two scopes on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>M101 with 12-inch f/4.2 Newtonian</title>
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M101 with Canon 20d with Parcorr lens and 12-inch f/4.2 Newtonian reflector.2008-06-11 at 05:28 to 06:39UT; Sigma Clip Avg 107 30-sec_RAW frames. Only 2 rejected for trailing.Images recorded and processed with Images Plus 2.8, GradientXterminator, NEATJim Melka in Chesterfield, MO;&#160; Moon at first quarter in Virgo.



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		<title>Saturn on June 9th shows the two storms to no longer be active.</title>
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The Saturn apparition ends on a disappointing note in that the two storms that were visible last month are no longer visible. Good seeing to all. Jim Melka



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		<title>St Charles County Park events for 2008</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Looking forward to another great year of sharing views with the public. Mark your calendars.   Here&#8217;s the schedule for 2008:  
Sat&#8230;   Apr&#8230;    26 &#8230;  Broemmelsiek Park
Fri    &#8230;May &#8230;    9 &#8230;  Broemmelsiek Park
Sat&#8230;   Jun &#8230;    [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s Up June &#8216;08</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;In 1879, the prominent British astronomer, George Darwin ( 07/09/1845 - 12/07/1912 ) published his theory on the Moon&#8217;s origin. Others had speculated and written notes but no one had approached the subject, with research and thousands pages of formula the way the son of Charles Darwin had.
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; The fifth child of Charles and Emma [...]]]></description>
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		<title>M81/M82 field - May 29, 2008 from Chesterfield, MO</title>
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M81/M82 field - May 29, 2008 from Chesterfield, MO by Jim MelkaCanon 20d ISO 400 and Tak Sky90 @ f4.5 on EQ1 mount34 40-sec RAW frms for 22 minutes began at 05:45 UTTranslated and combined - Images Plus 2.80 +GradXterm + Neat



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		<title>2008 Trivia Night</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ASEM&#8217;s first public fund-raiser was a Trivia Challenge held on Saturday, May 17. 2008 at the Elk&#8217;s Lodge in O&#8217;Fallon, Missouri About 90 people attended and, by all accounts, had a great time.&#160; Master of Ceremonies and Quiz Master, Bob Judd set the pace for the theme Stars of the Universe with his costume as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mars Images from May 13, 2008</title>
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Details are very blurry, even the NPC is very vague. Clear skies havebeen few and far between and the seeing has been very poor. Here&#8217;sto the 2009/2010 Mars apparition. A total of 56 imaging sessionscompleted with the majority in 2007. Good seeing. Jim Melka
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