Door Peninsula Astronomical Society

June Meeting! Transit of Venus Viewing

Come One Come All to the June Meeting!

DPAS members will set up scopes and provide glasses to safely view the TRANSIT OF VENUS.

Meeting to be held at Olde Stone Quarry Park
4879 Bay Shore Drive on June 5th starting at 5 PM

This event will not occur for 105 years! The next transit is in 2117 so don\'t miss this one!

May Meeting

The monthly meeting of DPAS is Tuesday May 1st at 7:00 PM. Ray Stonecipher will present \"The Upcoming Transit of Venus\". The transit is Jun 5th so we\'ll be well informed.
Gary Henkelmann is presenting our monthly topic of Space Missions on the X-37 Reusable Orbiter.
Both look to be good topics and refreshments will be served.
Use the Utah Street Entrance

StarShoot AllSky camera now online

We are happy to announce that the new AllSky camera is operational and providing a 180° fisheye view of the day and night sky. Images are captured once every minute, and uploaded to the Weather at L.E.O. page and to wunderground.com, where a calendar allows you to view timelapse videos of the past 24 hours.

April General Meeting

The Door Peninsula Astronomical Society meets on Tuesday, April 3 at 7:00 PM at the Stonecipher Astronomy Center of Crossroads at Big Creek. Tom Minahan will present the program on Under Appreciated Astronomers and Dr. Beck will discuss the Astronomical Space Mission of the Month. Guests are always invited to attend the meeting. Use the Utah Street at Cove Road entrance to the Astronomy Campus.

March Meeting

The DPAS monthly meeting will be held Tuesday March 6th at 7:00 PM at the Astronomy Center.
Ray Stonecipher will be presenting a program on the ALMA Observatory and Tom Minahan will be presenting the Astonomy Space Misson of the Month. Refresshments will be served. Enter from Utah St.

February General Meeting

The Door Peninsula Astronomical Society will meet on Tuesday, February 7 at 7:00 PM at the Stonecipher Astronomy Center at Crossroads at Big Creek. Ray Stonecipher will present the program on Variable Stars and the American Association of Variable Star Observers, AAVSO. Also, Dave Udell will discuss our Monthly Topic, Space Mission of the Month. Guests are always welcome. Use the Utah Street at Cove Road entrance to the Astronomy Center.

Have a look at Sirius

Widely known as the �Dog Star� as the leading light of Canis Major, the big dog, Sirius is the brightest star in the night sky. Its name is from the Greek for �searing� or �scorching�. It shines high in the southeast after dark on January and February evenings from its distance of 8.6 light �years. Intrinsically 26 times brighter than the Sun, Sirius is about twice the Sun�s size.

Though its companion is invisible to the unaided eye, Sirius is actually a binary star. January marks the 150th anniversary of the discovery of Sirius B by Alvin Graham Clark. The two stars in this binary pair orbit extremely close to each other � both fit inside our solar system.

Smaller and just 1/10,000th as bright as its partner , Sirius B is a white dwarf, the burnt-out remnant of a Sun-like star. This cinder has about the same mass as the Sun packed into a volume the size of the Earth. Sirius B is one of the heaviest known white dwarfs. A piece of it the size of sugar cube would weigh more than a ton.

From Star Date (January-February 2012)

January Meeting and Annual Dinner Party

Members and Guests of DPAS are invited to Attend the DPAS Annual Dinner Party at the Lodge at Leathem Smith on Tuesday Jan 3rd 2012 We will gather at 5:30 with dinner ordered from the menu at 6:30 PM

The Lodge is located at 1640 Memorial Drive in Sturgeon Bay.

Please RSVP to Treasurer@doorastronomy.org

December General Meeting

The next monthly meeting will be on Tuesday, December 6 at 7:00 PM at the Stonecipher Astronomy Center of Crossroads at Big Creek. Dr. John Beck will present the program, Mars Update and Tom Minahan will discuss the Cultural Astronomy subject of the month. Refreshments will be provided for you and your guests. Use the Utah Street at Cove Road entrance to the Astronomy Center.

November Public Viewing Night

The Door Peninsula Astronomical Society will have a public viewing night on Saturday, November 19 at the Astronomy Center providing the sky is clear. Members will be on hand to help with equipment and to help locate objects.