Past Member Events
Tabling Events
Liede-Marie Haitsma brings her traveling MDAS Table to many public places to help introduce the club.
Clayton Library Display
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View of the display case within the Clayton Library at 6125 Clayton Road, CA. The display gives library goers a look at Astronomy and what our Society has to offer. Models of both the Space Shuttle and one of the Mars Rovers is included. These displays have generated interest towards the MDAS. MDAS displays are put up within Contra Costa County during the year. |
Save Mount Diablo Challenge - 10/7/2007
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This is the flyer announcing the Save Mount Diablo Challenge. This is a bicycle trek up Mount Diablo -- about 3500 vertical feet. |
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Liede-Maria Haitsma and Tom Harris at the MDAS Table |
Public Night - 4/4/2003 - The Night of the “Sun Dog”
The 4/05/2003 Public Night on Mt. Diablo had a disappointing start -- It
was cold and cloudy. In fact, only 4 or 5 cars showed up in the parking
lot. We still managed to have a pretty good, but short, evening with the
public. At sunset, we had a pleasant surprise, as witnessed in the
pictures below
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Here we have Richard Crapuchettes, Ranger Mike Rodriques,
Marni Berendsen, and her husband Richard gazing at that pleasant
surprise |
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The event - a sun dog as a halo around Marni. |
Society Night - 6/29/2002
The 6/29/2002 Society Night on Mt. Diablo had a disappointing start -- the wind was kicking up, but most of the 25 people that were there kept vigilant, and were rewarded later on (well, much later on -- the wind didn't die down until close to midnight). By then the Milky Way was quite visible, the moon still hadn't risen high enough to be an issue, and seeing was terrific. As I indicated earlier, there were 25 people in attendance with 15 Telescopes.
Here are some pictures of the early arrivers:
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Chuck Smith is in the final stages of setting up his new
home-built Dobsonian. In the foreground, Glenn Spiegelman's 8"
SCT is all set for some solar viewing, the sun was still high
enough over the trees to get some good views of the solar disk. |
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Rich Ozer is seen here planning out his viewing for the evening |
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Here's Pete Schneider setting up his 22" Dobsonian. |
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Tom Harris made it back from Alaska in time for this society
night. You would think that after a few days of the Alaskan
24-hour sunlight he would have had enough, but here he is with
Steve Jacobs -- trying to do some solar imaging with his Digital
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Davis Star Party -- July 19, 20 2002
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The MDAS Welcome Table |
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Jane Houston-Jones at the 7" Refractor |
Yosemite Star Party -- 8/3 - 8/4 2002
Thanks to Earl Oliver for these photos of MDAS members at the Yosemite Star Party. For more of his images, follow this link: http://www.angelfire.com/music2/jumpcity/yosemite02/
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Earth Day - 4/22/2006
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 Steve Jacobs with a Sun Gazer |
 Now what is she looking at... |
 The sun in all its' HA glory |
 Detail of a solar prominence |
