Eastern Connecticut Girl Scout
Astronomy Club

One of three clubs organized in 2009 in the State of Connecticut, the ECGSAC endeavors to promote the science of Astronomy to girls and their families. We generally meet every second Friday of month throughout the year except in January and February. Weather permitting we set up telescopes and view significant events of the month and such heavenly objects as are available. The GSofCT monthly Eblast contains a brief desciption of the months viewing. If weather does not permit use of the telescopes we have a presentation using the Celestia "planetarium" program.

The club has it's own auto tracking telescope and the owner of MRA brings his own Meade auto-tracking telescope which also has video output capability

The club meets at the Girl Scout camp at Camp Laurel near the infirmary 6:30-8:30 and later depending on weather and daylight.

If you are interested in attending, please bring REDflashlights. Inexpesive red LED headlamps can be obtained through major retailers which are ideal because they free up your hands for other uses. DO NOT use white lights as these will impair your vision for at least 20 minutes and affect everyone else. Be advised that young children may not be suited because of the patience required for telescope set up and viewing. Families, however, are most welcome - even the boys!

Troop leaders: We currently have the following presentations on Celestia available for your Girl Scouts to view. Recommended ages are also listed. We can tailor the presentations somewhat to younger children if you are interested.

Celestia is the program we use for our "planeterium". It is free and open source. We are putting together age appropriate astronomy classes and will add them to our list as time permits.

Topic	Description	Girl Scouts
Tour of the Solar System	Covers the 8 major planets and up to their five largest moons. You'll be amazed at what's been discovered!	Juniors
Mars - An Oceanic Planet	Covers ancient Mars history and whether water once rained on Mars	Cadets
Mars II - It's Dead, Jim, But was It Alive	Is or was there Life on Mars? The latest information is covered with more evidence to think about.	Cadets
The Messier Objects	Travel at beyond warp speed to discover the beauty of the Universe as only the camera can capture. A photographic delight	Daisies

Club Schedule for 2011

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Click here for the ECGSAC flyer in pdf form (1.8M)

2011 Meeting schedule for ECGSAC

Meeting Date Meeting Time Sunset	Planets	Objects	Significant Events	Alternate Show	Daises, Brownies, and Binoculars
November 12, 2010 6:30PM 16:30	Jupiter Moon Neptune Uranus Saturn?	103P/Hartley Comet Asteroid Hebe NGC 884/869 Double Cluster NGC 7635 Bubble Nebula M31 Andromeda M33 Triangulum Galaxy Moon double crater Boussingault A/K	Leonid meteor showers Taurid meteor showers	Mars Part I - History of Mars	Moon Aquarius Cassiopeia Andromeda
January 14, 2011 CANCELLED	Jupiter Uranis Neptune?	Asteroid Iris Comet Pons-Winnecke n Cassiopeiae Binary Schedar Quadrinary M31 Andromeda Galaxy Bubble Nebula	The Quadrantid meteor shower occurs on the night of January 3/4		Moon Cassiopia
February 11, 2011 CANCELLED	Jupiter Uranis	Asteroids Nysa, Iria California Nebula NGC 884/869 Double Cluster E Persei Double M34 Open Cluster Algol Quadrinary IC 348 NGC 1528 NGC 1245			Moon Perseus
March 11, 2011 6:30PM 17:50	Moon Mercury Jupiter Neptune	Asteroid June,Massalia Comet Kopff NGC 2403 Galaxy M 81		Build a 2" Refractor Telescope How Telescopes work How to operate the GS Telescope	Moon Camelopardaus
April 8, 2011 7:00PM 18:21	Saturn Moon	Comet Wolf Mizar Binary I Ursa Major Binary A Ursa Major Binary X Ursa Major NGC 2403 NGC 3184 Galaxy M81 M101 M97 Owl Nebula	Saturn Closest	Light pollution and the human eye Create an Observation List	Ursa Major
May 13, 2011 7:30PM 18:54	Saturn	Asteroid Hygiea Comet Finlay NGC 2683 Galaxy NGC 2841 Galaxy NGC 2768 Galaxy NGC 2281 Open Cluster NGC 2859		Navigating the Stars - Learn what Declination, Right Ascension, Altitude, Azimuth are. Learn about Magnitude	Moon Lynx
June 10, 2011 7:30PM 19:20	Saturn	Comet Brookes 2 Cor Caroli Binary M3 Globular Cluster M016 Galaxy NGC 4631 Galaxy M94 Galaxy M63 Sunflower Galaxy M51 Whirlpool Galaxy		TBD	Moon Canes Venatica
July 8, 2011 7:30PM 19:23	Saturn	Asteroid Vesta Comet Borrelly Pulcherrima Binary D Bootes Binary 44 Binary M3 Globular Cluster NGC 5466 Globular Cluster		TBD	Moon Bootes
August 12, 2011 7:30PM 18:50	Neptune	Asteroid Vesta,Ceres Comet Giacobini-Zinner Z Herculis Binary M Hercules Trinary Sarin Double M13 Globular Cluster M92 Globular Cluster	Neptune Peaks in intensity	TBD	Moon Hercules
September 9, 2011 6:30PM 18:06	Jupiter Uranis Neptune	Asteroid Vesta, Ceres, Nausikaa Comet Stephan-Oterma Vega Trinary E Vega Double Binary Sheliak Binary D Vega Double RR Vega Pulsating Variables NGC 6791 Open Cluster M57 Ring Nebula M56 Globular Cluster	Uranis peaks in intensity	TBD	Moon Lyra
October 14, 2011 6:30PM 17:07	Jupiter Uranis Neptune	Asteroid Versta, Ceres, Eunomia Comet Johnson D Cygni Binary Albireo double M39 Binoculars NGC 7000 North American Nebula IC 5070 Pelican Nebula NGC 7027 Planetary Nebula 61 Double NGC 6992 Gas Nebula NGC 6960 Veil Nebula 32 Cygnus Binary 31 Cygnus Group M29 Open Cluster Great Cygnus Star Cloud	Jupiter at Opposition	TBD	Moon Cygnus
November 11, 2011 6:30PM 16:31	Jupiter Neptune	Asteroid Vesta, Ceres, Leto Comet Tsuchinshan Cocoon Nebula NGC 7209 Open Cluser NGC 7243 Open Cluster NGC 7296 Open Cluster M31 Andromeda Galaxy	Leonid meteor shower on the 17th	TBD	Moon Lacerta

Contact Information

EMail

Email inquires to: astronomy

To signup for a scheduled club meeting notify: meeting

Telephone

860-886-8599

Postal Address

160 Laurel Hill Ave.
Norwich, CT 06360

Eastern Connecticut Girl Scout Astronomy Club