{"content":[{"text":"The The Blue Blue Moon Moon \n Observer Observer \n March, 2018 \n Door Peninsula \n Astronomical Society Volume 20 Number 3 \n PO Box 331 \n T \n Sturgeon Bay, WI he March general meeting of DPAS will take place on Tuesday, \n 54235 March 6, at 7 PM at the Ray & Rutie Stonecipher Astronomy Center. \n “Time and Relative Dimensions in Space - The Future” will be the main \n www.doorastronomy.org program delivered by Steve Ransom-Jones. The monthly “Learning the \n Night Sky” topic will be “Using a Planisphere - Taurus” presented by \n Dave Lenius. \n Meeting notes page 1 \n Who we are page 2 Notes from the General Meeting \n February 6, 2018 After some informal discus- \n Related organizations p.2 \n sion on the day's successful Space-X \n DPAS Board page 3 The attendance was 22, in- launch, in which Elon Musk's old Tesla \n cluding board members. Also attend- automobile was added to the swarm \n Lyman Spitzer page 3 \n ing was Ms. [??] Henke, a founding of space junk, Gary Henkelmann \n Astronomy quiz page 4 member of the Door Peninsula Astro- gave a synopsis of the major astron- \n nomical Society in 199?. omy discoveries of the 20th Century: \n Poetry Corner page 5 \n • The universe is very much \n 2018 Programs page 5 After introductions all around larger than anyone believed. \n and a welcome to our new members • Something other than visi- \n Viewing Activity page 5 \n John McGitty and Liz Walter, Presi- ble matter holds a galaxy together. \n Viewing nights page 6 dent Gary Henhelmann promoted the • The universe is expanding. \n upcoming NCRAL 2018 convention • The expansion is acceler- \n NCRAL page 6 on May 4-5, hosted by DPAS at The ating. \n Lodge at Leathem Smith. The week- The mystery \"substance\" that \n end meeting of amateur and profes- affects galaxy rotation has been \n sional astronomers from around the dubbed Dark Matter, even though no \n midwest will include lectures and pre- one knows what it might be for sure, \n sentations, night sky viewing if clear, The entity which accelerates the ex- \n banquet dining, social hours and door pansion of the universe is named \n prizes! Accommodations are avail- Dark Energy. \n able. Sign-up for NCRAL 2018 at \n www.doorastronomy.org/ncral-2018. The first lecture \"Fundamen- \n tal Building Blocks\" was an overview \n Two themes for our general to the lecture series and covered in- \n meetings in 2018 were introduced: 1) troductions to the following topics: the \n Learning the night sky. Basics of find- Standard Model of particle physics \n ing your way around the constella- and the General Theory of Relativity \n tions and stars visible in the northern constitute all physicists know with any \n hemisphere throughout the year. 2) A certainty about the structure of the \n series of video lectures titled Myster- universe; greek philosopher Democri- \n ies of the Expanding Universe, a tus and the concept of the atom [indi- \n Great Courses Lecture Series. Pre visible in ancient greek], the discovery \n sented by Sean Carroll PhD, in the 19th Century of many elements \n researcher and lecturer at CalTech. continued on page 3","bbox":{"left":0.073029,"top":0.040283,"width":0.852776,"height":0.904939}},{"text":"The Blue Moon Observer","bbox":{"left":0.073355,"top":0.966799,"width":0.21904,"height":0.024280999999999997}},{"text":"March, 2018 Page 1","bbox":{"left":0.701629,"top":0.966799,"width":0.17657200000000006,"height":0.024280999999999997}}],"images_bbox":[{"left":0.068084,"top":0.045453,"width":0.122003,"height":0.113636},{"left":0.715983,"top":0.178325,"width":0.208908,"height":0.090804},{"left":0.070261,"top":0.79337,"width":0.261438,"height":0.152778}],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[{"left":0.068084,"top":0.045453,"width":0.122003,"height":0.113636},{"left":0.715983,"top":0.178325,"width":0.208908,"height":0.090804},{"left":0.070261,"top":0.79337,"width":0.261438,"height":0.152778}]}