Richard Bell's latest talk was called The 99 Years That Changed Astronomy.

Richard's talk covered the period between Copernicus and Newton.  

Richard is a former KAS President and serves as Editor and Webmaster.

Kirk Korista's latest talk was called Misconceptions of the Big Bang.

Dr. Korista is a Professor of Astronomy at WMU and a KAS Member.

Kirk received his PhD in astronomy from The Ohio State University in 1990.

Dr Kirk Korista has been a KAS Member since 1997 - check out his web site.

About 70 people gathered in the Presentation Center to hear Kirk's talk.

Mike Sinclair's latest talk was called An Unwanted Idea.

Mike is the current Vice President of the KAS and a past President.

Mike teaches physics, geology, calculus, and astronomy at KAMSC.

Here's Mike talking about Karl Schwarzschild and the Schwarzschild radius.

Mike also talked about S. Chandrasekhar and neutron stars.

And what would a talk on black holes be without mentioning Kip Thorne?

Our special guest for the April meeting was Dr. Fred Adams.

Dr. Adams talked about the formation & evolution of extrasolar planets.

Dr. Adams is a Professor of Physics at the University of Michigan.

About 80 KAS members and guests attended Dr. Adams' great talk.

Dr. Adams is also the author of two critically acclaimed books.

You can read a brief report on Dr. Adams' talk in the May issue of Prime Focus.

WMU astronomer and KAS member Kirk Korista introduced our speaker.

Kirk has known our guest speaker since he was a graduate student at OSU.

Jack Baldwin is Professor of Astronomy at Michigan State University.

Dr. Baldwin called his presentation Telescopes of the Future.

Dr. Baldwin has been an astronomy professor at MSU since 2001.

You can read a brief report on Dr. Baldwin's talk in the June issue of Prime Focus.

Dr. Robert Nemiroff is co-editor of the Astronomy Picture of the Day site.

Dr. Nemiroff called his talk Best Astronomy Images of 2009.

Dr. Nemiroff is Professor of Physics at Michigan Tech. University.

A record crowd of 125 members and guests were in attendance!

The June meeting was also Astronomy Day Volunteer appreciation night.

President Jack Price (right) presented Jim Kurtz with the Double Star Award.

Our special guests were Dave's Woolf's students from Kellogg Elementary.

They sang three songs. The first was about the Apollo 11 moon landing.

We celebrated the 40th anniversary of the Moon landing.

The second song was called Where No One Has Gone Before.

The third song from the Kellogg students was called Poor Little Pluto.

Richard Bell brought a new Galileoscope as part of the traditional Gadget Night.

The Galileoscope is a 50mm refractor kit that only costs $15.

KAS President Jack Price showed an Anderson Powerpole.

Bill Nigg shared some large set-screws & a homemade mounting plate.

Royce Goodchild shared his really neat model of the solar system.

Royce spent about three and a half years putting his model together.

Bill Nigg also gave a demo on the proper way to clean eyepieces.

Greg Sirna tried to spot some prominences on the Sun, but it was bare.

Beverly Byle (right) has a pleasant chat with Dick & Jackie Gillespie.

Dave Andrews takes a picture of Richard Bell while Richard shoots Dave!

Jim Kurtz acted as our personal chef for the fifth year-in-a-row.

Roger Williams takes a turn at trying to spot something on the Sun.

Don Stilwell (left) hangs out with Dan Morgan and Jean DeMott.

Dinner is served at the fifteenth annual Perseid Potluck Picnic.

Approximately 32 members and guests attended this year's picnic.

Vice President Mike Sinclair and President Jack Price at the Perseid Potluck Picnic.

President Jack Price introduced the evenings entertainment.

Eric Schreur gave a brief report on his eclipse trip in the KNC's amphitheater.

Eric shows one of his great images of the July 21st total solar eclipse.

Dale Mais talked about Amateur Spectroscopy at the September meeting.

Dale recently moved back to Michigan after living in S. California for 18 years.

Dale collects spectra using SBIG's Self-Guiding Spectrograph.

Dale's setup consists of a 14" SCT, Paramount ME, and SBIG ST-8E.

Dale was featured in the May 2003 issue of Sky & Telescope (page 50).

Jean DeMott and "Little" Galileo listen to Dale's presentation.

Stars, Dust & Gigabytes: Panoramic Images of the Milky Way was the topic.

The talk was giving by Dr. Axel Mellinger from Central Michigan University.

Axel's new Milky Way pan consists of over 3,000 CCD images!

KAS members enjoy dinner with Terry Mann before the Nov. General Meeting.

KAS President Jack Price welcomes everyone and introduces the speaker.

Our guest speaker was Terry Mann, President of the Astronomical League.

The title of Terry's talk was Women of Astronomy: Holding Up Half the Sky.

We celebrated winning the Astronomy Day Award during the snack break.

Astro Day Coordinator Richard Bell & Terry Mann pose with the cake.

Richard Bell placed third in the A.L. Mabel Sterns Newsletter Award.

Richard also placed second in the A. L. Webmaster Award contest!

Terry also presented to Astronomy Day Award to Richard & Jean DeMott.

KAS President Jack Price welcomes everyone to the 11th Holiday Party.

KAS Vice President Mike Sinclair fills his plate with many goodies.

Over 50 KAS members and guests attended this year's Holiday Party.

Greg Sirna (right) brought some homemade red cherry and cream soda!

Richard Bell, who is usually behind the camera, gets to be in a picture!

The Sirna Family enjoys dinner at their very table at the Holiday Party.

KAS Members have a jolly good time at the Holiday Party & Annual Meeting.

KAS Members have a jolly good time at the Holiday Party & Annual Meeting.

KAS Members have a jolly good time at the Holiday Party & Annual Meeting.

KAS Members have a jolly good time at the Holiday Party & Annual Meeting.

KAS Members have a jolly good time at the Holiday Party & Annual Meeting.

KAS Members have a jolly good time at the Holiday Party & Annual Meeting.

KAS Members have a jolly good time at the Holiday Party & Annual Meeting.

Greg Sirna and Mike Sinclair enjoy dinner at the table for "special" people.

The hit of the Holiday Party is BINGO, where KAS members win great prizes!

KAS President Jack Price was our BINGO caller. Bill Nigg let a helping hand.

Cathy Otterson won the first round of BINGO, a 22 mm Epic ED-2 eyepiece.

Al Hanchar chooses the Starry Night Galaxy Explorer CD

Stephanie Stratton won the third round and picked the Firefly Planisphere.

Al Hanchar won another round of BINGO and picked Bad Astronomy.

Bob White won the last round of BINGO and choose the Galileoscope.