Dobson speaks at Glendale Library tonight

[Jane H Jones]

Sorry for the late notice - I thought I sent this first event notice 
a couple weeks ago, but I didn't. This first event is tonight, and 
I'll be setting up my own homemade 10-inch Dobsonian reflector 
http://photo.whiteoaks.com/2006-12-02-dobson/slides/IMG_3850.html at 
the library in Glendale -  I made the telescope in John Dobson's 
telescope making class in 1988. :-)  Near the the bottom of this 
email are our own sidewalk events in January and February.  :-)

Tonight:  Jan 23 - John Dobson will be doing an auditorium and 
parking lot talk - demo of several of his telescopes at the Glendale 
Public Library (GPL) Tuesday Jan. 23rd, 7 p.m. GPL is on the corner 
of Louise and Harvard near Colorado and Brand essentially downtown 
Glendale.  Rain date is Jan 30.
Here is the library link: 
http://library.ci.glendale.ca.us/authors_artists_friends.asp#dobson

A few other local Dobson events are below. If you want more info 
about John's schedule, here is the link: www.sidewalkastronomers.us - 
click on schedule.

Jan. 25 -  The Sidewalk Astronomers will be at Nightengale Middle 
School at 3311 N.
Figeroa in Los Angeles on the evening of Jan 25th for Science Night.

Jan 26 -  Join the Sidewalk Astronomers at Samuel's Florist on the 
evening of Jan 26
from 6 pm unitl 9 pm. 921 W. Olive Ave., Burbank, CA for more information
call 818-846-1722.

Jan 27 - John will be at the Griffith Park Star Party. 
http://www.griffithobs.org/  Star Parties are listed under the 
"Public Programs" area. 
http://www.griffithobservatory.org/pstarparties.html  The Griffith 
website states:  Those wishing to attend public star parties held at 
the Observatory will need to secure a timed entry and shuttle 
reservation for the date and time of the event. To make a 
reservation, please click here.

Jan 28-29 John is giving talks at the Vedanta Center in Hollywood, 
but I don't have any additional info at this time. If you are 
interested in this, contact Donna at dsmith1055 at earthlink.net

Here are the next few Old Town Sidewalk Astronomy events:

Jan 26 -  Old Town Pasadena  6-9 p.m. (we set up on Colorado Blvd 
between Fair Oaks and Pasadena Avenues, depending on parking)

Jan 27 - Old Town Monrovia - Library Park, Myrtle and Lime Streets, 
Monrovia 5-9 p.m.

Feb 2&3 possible near-full-moon sidewalk nights.  Saturn is close to 
the moon Friday night, close to  Regulus Saturday night.

Feb 6 - if you want to bring a telescope to school, let us know. 
We'll be doing our 4th annual event at a  Monrovia middle school on 
Tuesday Feb 6th.  This is the school's PTA Founders Day, and several 
hundred students, parents and staff will have a look through the 
telescopes when they are not indoors at the honors program. 
Telescope viewing begins at  5:45 p.m. and the event will be over by 
7:30 or so.  Saturn and Venus will be the observing targets. Our two 
telescopes are usually enough, but we would welcome a school star 
party veteran, with telescope.  :-)

Feb 10 - Saturn Observing Night - in conjunction with the JPL Cassini 
Mission to Saturn's volunteer program 
http://soc.jpl.nasa.gov/experience/gallery-archive-stories.cfm, we'll 
join amateur astronomers all over the world showing the planet Saturn 
on this night!  Monrovia 6-10 p.m., later if there are still 
interested viewers.

Feb. 26 Science Fair at a Glendora Elementary School.  Again let us 
know if you'd like to bring a telescope to Glendora for Science Fair 
night.  Again, veterans of school star parties, let us know if you 
are interested in helping out.  5:30 - 7:30 p.m.

Jane

-- 
Jane Houston Jones
Senior Outreach Specialist, Cassini Program
JPL - 4800 Oak Grove Drive, MS 230-205
Pasadena, CA  91109  818-393-6435
jane.h.jones at jpl.nasa.gov
Cassini Saturn Observation Campaign
http://soc.jpl.nasa.gov/index.cfm