Northern California Historical Astronomy Luncheon and Discussion Association

NCHALADA meets several times a year at the Chabot Space and Science Center in the hills of Oakland, California. We spend a Saturday morning and afternoon discussing two topics related to (did you guess this) the history of astronomy. Between the two sessions, we justify the rest of the title by having lunch at a local restaurant. After lunch and before the afternoon session, we have a short business meeting to select the topics and date for the following meeting. No proxy votes are allowed, the people actually present are considered to be the whole nchalada.

Free Parking: There is no longer a fee for the parking structure at Chabot.

The Next meeting

The next meeting, NCHALADA LXXXVII, will be held on Saturday, May 17, 2009. Refreshments and chat at 9:30

The morning session (10:00 AM - 12:30 PM) will be Constellations of Middle and South America,
chaired by John Westfall, Association of Lunar and Planetary Observers.

Lunch probably at Harry's Hofbrau or Home Town Buffet, then a brief business meeting.

The afteroon discussion (2:00 PM - 5:00 PM) will be The Other Moons of the Solar System,
chaired by Nancy K. Cox, San Francisco Amateur Astronomers.

Archives

Here is a link to a partial (and growing) index of sessions.

Contacts

To receive email announcements of NCHALADA meetings or to make comments or suggestions about these pages (news about dead links is especially welcome), please send email to:

For more information about the group, contact Norm Sperling by email at

Norm is now the editor and publisher (not necessarily in that order) of the Journal of Irreproducible Results.
And his upcoming book is coming up on the web. Read his experience and good advice about Little League coaching and parenting.

Links

Tradition and the spirit of the web require a list of links to related pages. For the history of astronomy, almost anything you might need or want will be found at http://www.astro.uni-bonn.de/~pbrosche/astoria.html or at http://dmoz.org/Science/Astronomy/History/.

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