2009 HAL Star Parties and Outreach

(Click link on past dates for Star Party Reports and Photos)

Month	Date	Invitees	Host	Views/Events
March	21	Members Only	Eddie Crawford	Clear & Cold
March	28	Public Welcome	Dwane Miles	Clouded Out
April	18	Members Only	David Stein	Mercury Elongation
April	25	Public Welcome	Chas Rimpo	Mercury Elongation
May	16	Members Only	Ed Sabala	Clouded Out
May	30	Public Welcome	Ed Sabala	Moon & Saturn
June	20	Members Only	David Stein
June	27	Public Welcome	Aaron Darby
July	18	Members Only	Bill Lawrence
July	25	Public Welcome	Aaron Darby	Star-B-Que followed by Thunderstorms
August	15	Members Only	Wayne Baggett	Damp but Milk Way Visible.
August	22	Public Welcome	Dwane Miles	Dwane rhymes with rain!
September	12	Members Only	David Stein	Another wash out
September	19	Public Welcome	Chas Rimpo	Jupiter Transit, NoctiLucent Cloud, Iridium Flare
October	10	Members Only	Bennie Palmer	Partial Clouds, small turnout, Balt Sun covered event
October	24	Public Welcome	Wayne Baggett	Yet another weather wash out
November	14	Members Only	Bennie Palmer	Clouded out again
November	21	Public Welcome	Eddie Crawford	Observatory Annoucement

2009 Outreach Star Party Events

As a part of our mission to encourage public interest in astronomy and the space sciences, HAL is sponsoring or co-sponsoring the following events. If there is a separate webpage with more information there will be an active link in the Event column, below.

Event	Co-Sponsor	Where	When	Host
Greenfest	Howard County	Howard Community College Galleria	April 4th 10:00am - 4:00pm	Joel Goodman
Saturn, Lord of the Rings	HoCo Recs & Parks	Alpha Ridge Park	May 2, 8:00PM	David Stein
Moonstruck	HoCo Recs & Parks	Alpha Ridge Park	Cancelled	David Stein