Just a couple of additions: 1.Becky Arnim and Eric Edmunds should be added to Club Romances. I believe they were the first couple to meet and marry as a result of their association with SLAS. 2. About the smoke from my 22 inch dob. It was caused by the image of the sun, but it was almost intentional. We were killing time at Bald Mountain one day and decided to look at the sun via projection. I roughly aligned the scope using its shadow, but while doing so folks started yelling the it was catching fire! The focus on that scope is close to the tube, and the slight mis-alignment placed an almost completely focused, 1.25 inch diameter image of the sun on the black paint on the inside of the tube causing it to nearly erupt in flame. There was smoke pouring out the front of the tube. Needless to say, I quickly pointed it in a different direction and we discontinued that effort. I never did see any damage to the scope from where the image was focused. 3. Fisbees being caught by the 22" Yes - again while killing time during the day. I did manage to catch the frisbee a couple of times with the scope. 4. Watching the folks at the overlook from Bald Mountain was always interesting. It occurred to me that we may be able to use the scopes as parabolic microphones and actually listen to them talk as well. I removed the eyepiece from the 22" and placed my ear near the focus. Yep - I could hear them alright. I could make out about 70% of what they were saying. 5. I also taught three annual mirror grinding classes in my hangar starting around 1996. I don't have the exact dates. Each class had 5-8 participants. I also ran across some old files from the club. If you are interested in them we can arrange for them to be transferred. Brent ________________________________ From: Wiggins Patrick <paw@wirelessbeehive.com> To: utah astronomy listserve utah astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Monday, November 5, 2012 8:51 PM Subject: [Utah-astronomy] SLAS history document Hi all, I'm working with SLAS historian Ann Blanchard to update the SLAS history document for 2012. If you've got some ideas please let me know. Here's the existing document: http://slas.us/slasbooks/SLASPAST.PDF Yeah, it's huge... :) Thanks! patrick _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Send messages to the list to Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com The Utah-Astronomy mailing list is not affiliated with any astronomy club. To unsubscribe go to: http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Then enter your email address in the space provided and click on "Unsubscribe or edit options".