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Note the new starting time: 7:00pm
The Warren Astronomical Society meets monthly on the third Thursday in Room 205 in the "E" building at Macomb Community College, 14500 E 12 Mile Road, Warren, MI, 48088.
We do a bit of club business early on, then have a major presentation usually put together by one of our members.

Feature Presentation
Solar Cycle 25
By Rik Hill
Solar Cycle 25 - Where we've been, where we are, and where we hope to go.
About the Speaker
Rik was born on June 10, 1949, shortly after Antares was obscured by a nearly full moon. His first astronomical observation took place on May 6, 1957, during a Mercury transit. He continued observing through the 1960s, first with a 2.4" refractor and later with a Criterion RV-6, which he bought with money earned from mowing lawns and washing cars. In the Navy as a radar technician, he helped navigators identify stars and participated in the Atlantic backup recovery for Apollo 8. After his discharge, he sold his RV-6 to a local high school girl, who later invited him to help establish an astronomy club. They married in June 1974 and have been together for over 50 years. Rik got involved with ALPO (founded the Solar Section) and AAVSO, co-founded The Sunset Astronomical Society in Midland with his wife, Delores. He worked at Kitt Peak for 12 years. He worked at the Lunar & Planetary Lab at the University of Arizona and on the Catalina Sky Survey, discovering thousands of asteroids and 27 comets before retiring in October 2015. Now, he focuses on astronomy from his home observatory while caring for bonsai trees and fostering rescue cats.

If you would like to present a short talk (5-15 minutes) or a long talk (40-60 minutes) at a future meeting, please email Dale Partin at firstvp@warrenastro.org.

The views expressed in presentations are those of the speakers and do not necessarily represent, and should not be attributed to, the Warren Astronomical Society.

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