Hello, It has been a while since I was part of this mailing list, many of you may not recall knowing me and that is fine. I was a member of this mailing list about sometime ago but then my email address service got shut down. I'm very new to Astronomy and remember some of the warm welcomes I was given from all of you and I thank you. As you may or not recall I talked about setting up a club at my High school. I have been successful and have gotten the club setup. There are about fifteen people signed up, most of them girls, which I'm glad to report. The meetings for the club that I have had so far have been mostly power-point presentations on things based around space. Most of these meetings have had a turn out of about ten people on average. I have tried to organize at least three star parties but none of them worked out. Would it be alright if I asked my club members if they wanted to join this mailing list? Also would it be too much trouble if we where to come to your Star Parties that you hold once in a while? How many of you made it to that Saturn star party? That was a blast, it my first public star party where I took my telescope---(an 8" sky-quest Reflector, with an 1200 focal length.) it was so fun. An elderly gentleman who had been born in 1918 and fought in WWII for three years got to see Saturn and Jupiter for his first time though my scope! There where so many nice telescopes there that it made mine look like a small black insect. Thank you all, -Bruce Glad To whom it may concern, My old now inactive email is bruce_glad2@space.com and needs to be removed from the list. --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now