Greetings to all of our club members, visitors, and guests!
We welcome you to the regular meetings of the North Houston Astronomy Club on the 4th Friday of every month.
The Kingwood campus is located on the west side of I 69 (US Highway 59), north side of Kingwood Drive, and NW of the Kingwood Medical Center.
Click below here to see the Map and Driving Directions!
(Parking permits are not required after 6 PM!)
Lone Star-Kingwood Campus
See the following Campus Map
All Members, Guests, and Visitors park at the Parking Lot C across the Sortes-McClellan Road. The CLA building we both the novice and general meetings gather is building 4 as shown on this map. Click on the image above to get a pdf file with more information about the campus layout.
Physical Address
20000 Kingwood Dr.
Kingwood, TX 77339
22 March 2019
Our gathering begins with the Novice Meeting:
Place: Lone Star College-Kingwood Campus
Location: Classroom Building A (CLA) – (2nd Floor – Room CLA221)
The Astronomy Classroom
Time: (6:30 – 7:15) PM
Speaker: Dr. Bruce Pollard, Ph. D.
(NHAC Vice President)
Presentation
Let’s Look Around Leo!
Dr. Bruce Pollard will be doing another one of his fabulous novice presentations and this one focuses on the objects that can be observed in the constellation of Leo. There are mostly galaxies and famous bright stars. Come to the meeting and go a journey through this wonderful and very pronounced constellation in our Spring skies.
Learn more from the following Reference:
The Deep Photographic Guide to Leo
The gathering concludes with the General Meeting:
Place: Lone Star College-Kingwood Campus
Location: Classroom Building A (CLA) – (1st Floor – Room CLA112)
The Teaching Teacher Auditorium
Time: (7:30 – 10:00) PM
Speaker: Jesse Roberts
(NHAC Newsletter Editor)
Presentation
The Life and Times of Charles Messier
Jesse Robers is our official NHAC Newsletter Editor for 2019. Earned a BS in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Texas, Jesse enjoyed a career in engineering, operations and environmental management in the oil and gas industry. As a teenager, he became interested in astronomy and it has been a lifelong desire to spend as much time as possible under the night sky. Now retired, he can do so… when the weather cooperates! He is also a history buff and delves into the lives and challenges of the people who were involved in astronomical discoveries throughout the centuries. He has been a member of NHAC for three years.
Jesse will talk about the life of Charles Messier. His accomplishments, achievements, collaborations, and other such events in his life as one of the most famous 18th Century French Astronomers. Famous for his world renounced catalog of DSOs (Deep Sky Objects) for which he collaborated with a few other Astronomers in Europe in the search for Comets. Comets were the most important cutting edge area of research in Astronomy prior to the days of William Herschel. 110 of these so-called cometary bodies discovered by roaming across the sky in small telescopes looking for true comets appear to not move at all with respect to their positions in the stars and constellations. Come to the general meeting and enjoy this biographical presentation of one of Astronomy’s famous people!
Learn more from the following References
The Biography of Charles Messier
The Bulletin layout of Messier’s Life
Charles Messier’s Life in Detail
Messier Catalog of Deep Sky Objects