• Presenter's Intro's
• www.sidewalk-astronomy-club.com
• Quick Agenda (5 Sections) / Overview

MATT:

• Where we are in the Universe?
• What's in the Night Sky?
• - Stars
• - Planets
• - Moon
• - Milky Way
• - Comets
• - Clusters
• - Nebula
• - Galaxy

• The Celestial Sphere.

• What's in the Tonight's Sky? [TIME: 3/3/04 7:30pm]
1. Venus
2. Andromeda
3. Pleiades
4. Orion Nebula
5. Saturn
6. Moon
7. Jupiter
8. North American Nebula
9. Stars: [Rigel, Betelgeuse, Sirus]

• Rotation of the Earth and Sky (Around the North Star: POLARIS)
• - Minutes
• - Days
• - Months [by hand]
• - Seasons
• - Years

DAVID:

• The Planets: PPT
• The Planets
• The Moon

RICK:

• Star Hopping Basics

MATT:

• List Celestial of Events to watch for in 2004

• MATT: Binoculars BIG Binoculars, Binocular Mounts



• DEBRA: Scopes (Reflector, Refractor, Cassegrain, Dobsonian)



• DAVID: Mounts (Alt Azth, Equatorial)



• RICK: Eyepieces



• MATT: Filters (Planetary and Nebula [Broadband, Narrowband], Solar, Lunar)



• DEBRA: Star Charts, Sky Charts, Planetsphere and other Misc items.

• Ask The Panel Anything

• Informal Gathering