[Chaos-l] Astronomy Day (as opposed to NCSM "Astronomy Days").

[walter fowler]

I like the idea and I plan on looking more into the schedule for the whole
year to choose some "high points" that we may want to concentrate our
efforts on. Walter

On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Stewart-Taylor, Jon <stewart-taylorj at anx.com
> wrote:

> Hi all.  This being the International Year of Astronomy, i was wondering
> if we should attempt something we haven't tried before.  There is a
> international Astronomy Day (see the AL page at
> http://www.astroleague.org/al/astroday/astroday.html). This year it
> falls on May 2nd, just after 1st quarter moon.
>
> Should we plan to do something for this?  It could be as simple as
> setting up at the sundial at Morehead for solar/lunar observing and LP
> education, or something more complicated such as a public session at
> Little River Park.
>
> I know it's kinda late to be thinking about this (a little under a
> month), but it's always bugged me that CHAOS doesn't do anything for the
> major Astronomy "holiday".  I'd like to make it a permanent feature of
> the CHAOS public outreach, but start with something smallish this year
> because of the late start.
>
> Thoughts/suggestions?
>
> Mickey/Amy, your input on behalf of Morehead would be much appreciated.
>
> Mike Lemon, you once said you'd be willing to contact the Little River
> people about sessions there.  Have you followed up on this?  If not,
> could you?
>
> Thanks.
>
> J.
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