Observing Sessions

Club Meeting Minutes

Astronomy Technology Today Magazine Subscription Discount

Discount on Telescopes and Accessories Purchased From Highpoint Scientific

Sky and Telescope Magazine Subscription Discount

Club Officers:

President: Currently looking for a club member to take on this role.  Please email Tom Lugar or Tom Spreacher if you are interested. 

Secretary/Webmaster: Tom Lugar (tomlugar@ptd.net)

Treasurer: Tom Sprecher (tsprecher116@comcast.net)

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Observing Sessions: Options

1.  Observing through club members telescopes at the back of the Lititz Library, weather permitting, after club meetings April through November.

2.  Observing ‘own your own ‘ for cub members at the Middle Creek Wildlife Management Area, north of Lititz.  The approved dates by the Game Commission are listed on the Calendar Page.  Telescope setup is at the rear of the visitor’s center adjacent to the parking lot.  Directions to Middle Creek are listed below. For these dates, the visitor center parking lot lights will be turned off.

3. Club organized observing for interested members at four local star parties.  These star parties include two Mason Dixon Star Parties, York County, in July and September and two at Cherry Springs State Park in Potter County (Cherry Springs Star Party in June and the Black Forest Star Party in August).  The plan would be to have club members camp close together.  The star parties (with the exception of the no-frills Mason Dixon Party in September) will have astronomy equipment vendors, speakers, door prizes, organized kids activities and the opportunity to observe through a variety of different types and sizes of telescopes.  Links to these star parties are on the Calendar Page.  Announcements on organizing intersted members attendance will be made at the club meetings.

  

Directions to Middle Creek:

Route 501 North through Lititz to Brickerville.  At the light at Brickerville, turn right onto Rt. 322 East and turn left less than a half a mile onto Hopeland Road. Travel through the village of Hopeland and turn left onto Kleinfeltersville Road. After 2 miles, go past the lake dam on the right and past Laurel Drive on the left.  Turn left at the next road to the Visitor’s Center. Parking and telescope setup will be at the rear of the Visitor’s Center.

Click Here For a Mapquest Map!

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Club Meeting Minutes:  Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Attendees: 21.

The February observing highlights for binocular and telescope observing were presented  followed by a presentation, ‘Eyepieces and Filter”.

Prior Meeting Presentations:

DSLR Astrophotography by Rob Webb – click ‘here’

Meteorites by Tom Lugar – click ‘here’

 

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Astronomy Technology Today Magazine Subscription Discount

A benefit of AELC membership is that you can subscribe to Astronomy Technology Today Magazine at a club discount rate.  To subscribe go to their website: www.AstronomyTechnologyToday.com. The club discount code is AELC.

Highpoint Scientific Club Discount

Highpoint Scientific, www.highpointscientific.com, offers a 3% discount for club members on the purchase of telescopes and accessories.  This New Jersey store offers free shipping on many items and you will not pay the 6% PA state tax.  The Advantage Club Member Number for the AELC discount is 10119.

Sky & Telescope Magazine Subscription Discount

A benefit of AELC membership is that you can subscribe to Sky & Telescope at a club rate of $32.95 per year.  This is a $10 discount from the regular $42.95 rate, a recovery of half of your AELC annual dues!

If you do not have a subscription, send a check made out to “Sky & Telescope” for $32.95 to Tom Sprecher, Club Treasurer.  Tom will put your name on a Club Member Registration Form and send it along with your check to S&T to start your subscription.

Send to:   Astronomy Enthusiasts of Lancaster County

Attn:  Treasurer, Tom Sprecher

116 Timber Cove, Lebanon, PA 17042

If you already subscribe to S&T at the regular rate of $42.95/year, when it is time for you to renew, send Tom your renewal form along with a check for $32.95 made out to “Sky & Telescope”.  He will get you registered and renewed at the discount rate.

Once you are registered as a club subscriber, you should get a renewal notice each year for $32.95 as long as you are club member.  Should the renewal rate on your notice be higher than the $32.95 rate and S&T has not officially increased the subscription and discount rates, send your renewal notice and a check for $32.95 to the following address.  Include a note that states that you are a member of the Astronomy Enthusiasts of Lancaster County Club, Club #338.  This should solve the problem.

Sky & Telescope

54 Court

P.O. Box 171

Winterset, IA 50273

If you are already receiving S&T at a discounted rate through the club, you can also renew online at www.skyandtelescope.com.  At the main page under Community, click on Clubs & Organizations and you will see the link for renewal or, you can call at 1-800-253-0245 and renew over the phone at $32.95/year.  No multiyear discouts over the $32.95 price.