Hello Everyone, Our next meeting is fast approaching us again, and it will be Friday May 4th at the UNO science building for 7:30p.m. This month's speaker is our own Jason Talley, and his presentation is titled, "Citizen Science: How you can Help".

Speaking of presentations, I would like to thank Barry Simon for his talk on the selecting eyepieces and Blue Comet last month, it was very interesting!

As for Outreach Events, we have one that will be at Christ Episcopal Church which had a date change from April 4th to April 26th because of weather problems. This is a fun event so if anyone has never been to this one, I think you should consider going to it. We will hear more on this event at the meeting.

The Spring Scrimmage has come and gone now and Barry Simon reported on the PAS Forum the following,

"The DSRSG Spring Scrimmage, 2012 version, is now over and it was a great success. 17 people were in attendance including 11 from the PAS, 4 from the Baton Rouge Astronomical Society and 2 non-affiliated amateur astronomers. The weather was great on Thursday, good for daytime solar viewing on Friday, and clear again on Saturday evening just in time for evening observing. On both Thursday and Saturday we got readings indicating a magnitude 6.4 visual limit. Seeing itself was good on Thursday and poor for planets on Saturday. Solar viewing on Friday yielded some very nice views including some great sunspot groups. As always, the Feliciana Retreat Center was a great place to stay and about as perfect as it can get for a star party!"

The PAS will have our annual raffle with tickets which will be 6 for $5.00 or $1.00 each. We will be selling tickets for the big raffle which is the 10 inch Dobsonian scope at 6 for 25.00 or 1 for $5.00.

Hope to see all at the meeting!

President, Brian LeCompte