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2012 HAL & Regional Star Parties Plus HAL Outreach Event Reports

Click link on bold, gold, underlined past dates for Star Party Reports and/or Photos)

Month	Date	Invitees	Host	Views/Events
March	3	Public	Ed Crawford	Special Event - Mars Opposition
March	17	Members Only	Ron Lee	Great turn-out but lots of light dome
March	31	Public	Ron Lee	Clouds and Comraderie
April	14	Members Only	Peter Friedman	Clouded Out
April	28	Public	David Stein	Clouded Out
May	12	Members Only	Philip Browne	No Report Provided
May	19	Public	David Stein	Galaxies (M51, M81+82,Virgo, NGC4565), Mars, Saturn
June	16	Members Only	Peter Friedman
June	30	Public	Ernie Mudd	Derecho Doomed, Only four attendees
July	14	Members Only	Chris Todd	Clouded Out
July	21	Public	Bob Prokop	Star-B-Q followed by Binocular Night: Clouded out.
August	11	Public	Chris Todd	Nothing but clouds except for a short window at 3AM
August	18	Members Only	Garry Ingle	Good observing, no clouds.
August	25	Public	Garry Ingle	Clouds
September	15	Members Only	Wayne Baggett	High clouds, sucker holes - a marginal observing evening
September	22	Public	Chris Todd	Moon, M57, M13, M15
October	13	Members Only	Philip Browne	Clouds early, cleared later
October	27	Public	Chris Todd	Cubs Scouts and clouds with full moon trying to poke through
November	10	Members Only	Dwane Miles	Clear Skies, Observed Jupiter, 14 scopes set up.
November	17	Public	Chris Todd	Jupiter

Click on bold, gold underlined events for full reports and photographs where available

Event	Co-Sponsor	Where	When	Host
Library Outreach	HoCo Library	Howard County Central Library 10375 Little Patuxent Pkwy Columbia, MD 21044	April 2, 2012, 7:30PM Rain Date: April 3rd	David Stein
Greenfest	HCC / HoCo	Howard Community College 10901 Little Patuxent Parkway Columbia, MD 21044-3197	April 14, 2012 10AM-4PM	Bob Prokop
Skywatch	HCC	Alpha Ridge Park in conjunction with normal HAL Pubic Star Party	April 28th
Venus Transit	Howard Conservancy	Alpha Ridge Park	June 5, 2012 5:30PM to sunset	HAL
Library Outreach Solar Viewing	HoCo Library	Howard County Central Library 10375 Little Patuxent Pkwy Columbia, MD 21044	June 16, 2012, 1-4PM No Rain Date	Joel Goodman
Solar Sunday	Robinson Nature Center	Robinson Nature Center 6692 Cedar Lane Columbia, MD 21044	July 8, 2012 Noon-4PM	Joel Goodman
Library Outreach Solar Viewing	HoCo Library	Howard County Central Library 10375 Little Patuxent Pkwy Columbia, MD 21044	July 14, 2012, 2:30-4PM No Rain Date	Joel Goodman
Perseid Meteors	NA	Alpha Ridge Park Marriottsville, MD	August 11 Dusk until way past midnight	Chris Todd
Library Outreach	HoCo Library	Howard County Central Library 10375 Little Patuxent Pkwy Columbia, MD 21044	Oct 22, 2012, 7-9PM Rain Date: Oct 23rd	David Stein

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