Sidewalk Astronomy Saturday night

[Jane H Jones]

HI everyone,

We've updated the Old Town Astronomers website to include all the 
summer National Park astronomy events we'll be attending.  During the 
summer months  "Have Telescope, Will Travel" becomes our motto. 
We'll be hauling 4 Dobsonian telescopes  and John Dobson and Barry 
Peckham from Hawaii to the Grand Canyon and Bryce Canyon in June.  In 
July and August we'll join our fellow members of the the San Jose and 
San Francisco astronomy clubs at the Glacier Point Star Parties in 
Yosemite.These free public astronomy events are held every year for 
guests at the national parks.  Read all about it here: 
http://www.otastro.org/

And on Saturday night May 19, we'll be showing a slender crescent 
moon near Venus, and Saturn from 7:30 to 9:30 at Myrtle and Lime 
Streets in Monrovia, CA. We'll hit the Pasadena sidewalk Friday May 
25, when there is more moon to show.

Saturday the 19th is also the first International sidewalk Astronomy 
Day. Even if you don't join us in Monrovia, why not look up at moon, 
Venus and Saturn.  Or show these solar system wonders  to your 
neighbors . No telescope is needed, but if you have one, why not 
place it out on your own sidewalk and share the views?   Here's where 
all the international sidewalk astronomy night events are being held. 
http://www.sidewalkastronomynight.com/

Finally, last month a reporter from American Public Radio's "Weekend 
America" interviewed sidewalk astronomers in both northern and 
southern California for this week's 2-hour show.  It airs locally on 
Saturday, May 19 on KPCC 89.3 FM from 1-3 p.m.  If local for you is 
someplace other than KPCC, you can look at the station list here: 
http://weekendamerica.publicradio.org/about/list.php (it's on Sirius 
and XM satellite too) ! Listen live on Saturday http://www.scpr.org/, 
or you can subscribe to the podcast for convenient listening later. 
We don't know how long the segment is, what or who is included, or 
during which hour of the show the Sidewalk Astronomer segment will 
air.  http://weekendamerica.publicradio.org/collections/podcast/

See some of you at JPL Open House this weekend?  9-5 Saturday and 
Sunday.  Look for me in the big Cassini Mission tent, right next to 
the full size Voyager model.  :-) http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/pso/oh.cfm
-- 
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