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Welcome and thank you for coming out again.

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Ahh, tonight we have a guest speaker from

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the Lethbridge Astronomy Society.

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He's gonna do about a 15 minute presentation.

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My name's Tom Anderson.

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and uh

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if you can't see where you are

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or if you can't hear me or if I mummble

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ok, I don't wanna hear [unintelligible]

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ok deal ok

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Anybody hear about the Lethbridge Astronomy 
Society?

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Have you ever heard of us?

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No

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Do you know where we are located?

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Ya, out that door!

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Pretty good eh.

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Umm, I'll tell you a little more about how 
to find us later.

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That uhh, I'm in our group of The Lethbridge 
Astronomy Society

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and uhh,

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The society started back in the mid 1980's.

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Yo, I just started come on in and sit down!

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Umm, ya so

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30 or so years ago

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is when we started the society.

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umm,

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Ya, so we started back in the mid 1980's,

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and then in the 90's uhh

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back when we first started it was basically 
a small club

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half a dozen people in all kinda like you. 
Right.

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and, uhh we just sorta went for

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borrow, hold bakeries, bottle drives, all 
kinds of stuff

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[unintelligible] and get a little bit of 
beer together

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a lot of people who get together have their 
own beer of course.

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uhh, it kinda blew from there uhh, in about 
1992, 93

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when we got incorperated as a body [unintelligible]

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I'll tell you a little more about that later, 
and why thats important.

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So, basically

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The short story is that there is not a lot 
of that with which you can can aply to.

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[unintelligible]

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So, anyways thats our logo umm,

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this is where we are located (the picture)

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So if you drive down Univeristy Drive

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on you way out of town [unintelligible]

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go straight on past that and you're gonna 
take your first right.

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and at the gravel road it takes you down 
into the coulees.

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Umm, after you follow that road

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then you just take the dirt left. That takes 
you down into the coulee.

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Uhh, there's a dogwalking park an off leash 
dog park down here, we also have

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[unintelligible] Center, so that's kind of 
neat to see ahh, the ecology that goes on 
there.

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[unintelligible] down there

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Umm, there's an old farm house Umm.

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If you park in the [unintelligible] the [unintelligible] 
goes up. Umm.

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So Um

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This is the [unintelligible]. This here is 
the farm house.

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And that's the main observatory.

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[unintelligible] that um, ya! and

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Uhh, we're basically open all the time.

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Sometimes we keep the hours not open to the 
public. Though you can still get to it.

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Umm,

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Ok, there was the sign on the way in, and 
you can just see

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the corner of the building down here. Umm,

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So this is the obseving deck, so if you have 
portable telescopes you can bring them and 
put them on the deck. Umm,

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It's concrete which is nice cause that means 
movement won't woggle around the scope.

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Umm, and then there's a

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I'm getting my, I'm getting my Uhh,

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OK, Umm,

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There's the main ahh, viewing telescope down 
here.

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So, inside the main classroom, holds about 
30, 40 people. Uhh,

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We have a, uhh, member, a call member meeting 
every month.

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Although we have, we hold that over the summer 
because it's so [unintelligible] by the time 
you start [unintelligible].

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[unintelligible] Uhh,

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That started in September about when we had 
our first meeting.

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Ahh, right now our membership's about 45 
people.

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Umm, so then we deal with new registration 
when we have a meeting. Umm,

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September 9 [unintelligible] membership [unintelligible]. 
Umm,

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We also public observing, and that is the 
last Saturday of every month.

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and it's free to get in, you're welcome to 
come. :) Ahh,

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7:30 is when it starts, and it will go till 
around 9, 9:30,

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and at the end [unintelligible] September 
[unintelligible].

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Umm.

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We do a lot of other education outreach, 
umm, often though we [unintelligible] unless 
it's a topic of interest.

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We don't actually offer you education by 
presenting anything outside the club so,

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you are the first. And me made an excepting 
just for you.

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Uhh, we do the labs for the U of L, we have 
been 30 years. Umm,

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students in Astrophysics they come down to 
the observatory there. Even in Astrophysics 
you never know, you never actually look through 
the telescope.

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Till you come down to our place.

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Ahh,

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we've got a few of these programs going although

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[unintelligible] other people. We've got 
a project that we're doing at the college. 
Umm,

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We've got a magnatometer down at out site 
that they can use. Umm Ahh,

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Then there's Bonny and Delora. Umm,

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We don't often do funraising or [unintelligible] 
that much anymore,

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because we got a better source of funding 
then we had in the past.

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and then there's [unintelligible] which shows 
how larger [unintelligible]

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Sometimes at at the club although we're [unintelligible] 
more remote locations, we can get better 
funding. K.

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Ahhh,

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Ohh,

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So this is what it looks like in the summer 
time, uhh when we've had some rain

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[unintelligible] this is down on the ground, 
right about the observing deck.

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You can just see, this has nothing to do 
with astronomy but, you can just see the 
fain lines of an old railway that went through 
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Way, way, back like a million years ago.

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and that railway was a bad idea, because 
[unintelligible]

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Umm, here's a sample of some of the equiptment 
we have. This is a very old slide

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so we have, we will actually have [unintelligible]

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Umm, again another old photo

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[unintelligible]. Uhh,

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We've got a program, or had a program which 
not what we currently do

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[unintelligible]

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and we've got a [unintelligible]

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[unintelligible]

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Uhh, you have the aurora

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[unintelligible] Earth

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[unintelligible] 3 or 4 times a year they 
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