WOW! talk about a crowded schedule of public observing events for October and November. Just take a look at the TAS Calendar for these two months.

http://calendar.yahoo.com/joelalumia@sbcglobal.net

Our members will be scattered all over the Dallas metroplex showing the night sky to the general public. The Texas Astronomical Society has a 50 year history of public outreach and volunteer work by our generous members. 

Our second Astronomy Day for 2009 will be held on October 24th at the University of Texas Arlington Planetarium on campus. We will have a free raffles for the kids with two telescopes as the grand prize! We distribute free tickets to anyone high school age or younger, and the raffles take place hourly during the day with the Grand Prizes awarded about 7PM.

By the way NASA will impact a probe(LCROSS) on the moon on Friday, October 9th at about 6:15am Eastern Time. You can watch the impact on NASA TV on your computer. NASA is looking for water on the moon and will use spectrograph analysis of the impact to determine the presence of water.

http://lcross.arc.nasa.gov/    NASA LCROSS Web Site

The impact may be visible in a medium sized amateur telescope of 10 inches or greater of aperture. However you will need to be up rather early to see it happen.

Clear Skies!

Joe Lalumia is a member of the Texas Astronomical Society. Visit our web site at  www.texasastro.org  to learn about the club's Astronomy activities.