The weekend of August 10-12, 2012 could work, as it is close to the New moon (august 17), but it all depends on the club's schedule, which no doubt, has not been worked out that far in advance, but a group can always be worked in. Do you have an issue with doing it sooner? Say next Month, or in October? September 2 is before the first quarter (and will be cooler than an August observation, but warmer than in the Winter), so the moon will be out early and set by at least 11:30. That would give us the best of both worlds, because we can view the moon, Jupiter and Saturn early, and then settle in for some deep sky observation later (along with Mars, Neptune and Uranus, and maybe even Pluto, which will be up but very hard to see visually). Anyway, just some thoughts. It could be done next August, if that is what everyone wants to do.
'The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and seal. It could not be expressed better.'
-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
- Dr. Donald Prothero
-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
- Dr. Donald Prothero
