HI everyone, We've updated the Old Town Astronomers website to include all the summer National Park astronomy events we'll be attending. During the summer months "Have Telescope, Will Travel" becomes our motto. We'll be hauling 4 Dobsonian telescopes and John Dobson and Barry Peckham from Hawaii to the Grand Canyon and Bryce Canyon in June. In July and August we'll join our fellow members of the the San Jose and San Francisco astronomy clubs at the Glacier Point Star Parties in Yosemite.These free public astronomy events are held every year for guests at the national parks. Read all about it here: http://www.otastro.org/ And on Saturday night May 19, we'll be showing a slender crescent moon near Venus, and Saturn from 7:30 to 9:30 at Myrtle and Lime Streets in Monrovia, CA. We'll hit the Pasadena sidewalk Friday May 25, when there is more moon to show. Saturday the 19th is also the first International sidewalk Astronomy Day. Even if you don't join us in Monrovia, why not look up at moon, Venus and Saturn. Or show these solar system wonders to your neighbors . No telescope is needed, but if you have one, why not place it out on your own sidewalk and share the views? Here's where all the international sidewalk astronomy night events are being held. http://www.sidewalkastronomynight.com/ Finally, last month a reporter from American Public Radio's "Weekend America" interviewed sidewalk astronomers in both northern and southern California for this week's 2-hour show. It airs locally on Saturday, May 19 on KPCC 89.3 FM from 1-3 p.m. If local for you is someplace other than KPCC, you can look at the station list here: http://weekendamerica.publicradio.org/about/list.php (it's on Sirius and XM satellite too) ! Listen live on Saturday http://www.scpr.org/, or you can subscribe to the podcast for convenient listening later. We don't know how long the segment is, what or who is included, or during which hour of the show the Sidewalk Astronomer segment will air. http://weekendamerica.publicradio.org/collections/podcast/ See some of you at JPL Open House this weekend? 9-5 Saturday and Sunday. Look for me in the big Cassini Mission tent, right next to the full size Voyager model. :-) http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/pso/oh.cfm -- Jane Houston Jones Senior Outreach Specialist, Cassini Program JPL - 4800 Oak Grove Drive, MS 230-205 Pasadena, CA 91109 818-393-6435 jane.h.jones(a)jpl.nasa.gov Cassini Saturn Observation Campaign http://soc.jpl.nasa.gov/index.cfm