From the Treasurer / Membership Chair...
Treasurer Introduction
- Created on Wednesday, 10 March 2010 19:02
- Category: Membership/Treasurer
Hi, I thought I would put an article under the Membership/Treasurer category since I fill that role. I have been serving as a volunteer treasurer since the Fall 2009 elections. I am still learning my way around the job and Tim Burns has been a great help. I am hopeful that those who wish to renew online make use of the ASN website to do so. It will make membership renewal painless for members and the treasurer.
I have been a faculty members working in Networking/IT at the University of Nevada, Reno since 1989. I have been married for 30 years and my children are in their 20s. Besides astronomy, I love to backpack, take pictures, and sing.
I am fairly new to astronomy. I had a crummy department store scope that I bought for the family in the 80s but it was a pain to use and I never was able to see much besides the planets and moon. I got the bug again about 4 years ago after I purchased a DSLR and decided it would be cool to take some astronomy pictures with it. It was a Celestron 80ED on a CG5 mount. The next year I bought myself a CPC925 for my 50th birthday. That's when I decided to find others interested in astronomy so I came to an ASN meeting. I got hooked in a hurry after that.
Much of what I have learned has been online at the www.cloudynights.com site. I hope our ASN forums get a lot of activity and we get to know each other better as members of ASN. There is a lot a great expertise in the club and it's great to be able to learn from others.
Thanks for reading and do your part to make this a great members web site.
Jeff Wolff
Getting Busy with ASN
- Created on Saturday, 09 February 2013 17:53
- Category: Membership/Treasurer
I would like to begin by saying Hello to all of the ASN members new and old. I have been a member for a couple of years and really enjoy the indoor events. Especially in the winter. I really enjoy the monthly club meetings. The club Officers make sure that there is always an informative and very interesting topic to discuss at the meeting. After the presentation, there is always an opportunity for questions and discussion and this is the part I love. I love looking at the stars but except for the major constellations I admit I get pretty lost and frustrated.
I have made some great friends with the ASN membership who have always been VERY helpful in teaching me creative ways to not only find objects but give me pointers to find them myself the next time. At the meetings, there are always members to discuss how to find the Orion Nebula or discuss Cosmic String Theory which I did not understand until our Vice President Dennis Jamison discussed it at one of our meetings. I asked questions in what I call "Fourth Grade Terms" and all of the members at the meeting were so helpful.
What I would like to impart to all of you is that this club wants to help everyone have a great experience whether it be by becoming a better viewer with your telescope or understanding how and why those stars are out there.
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