Ventura County Astronomical Society

The Ventura County Astronomical Society (VCAS) will hold it’s monthly membership meeting on Friday, January 20th, 2006 at 7:30 PM in the Multipurpose Room at Rancho Santa Susana Community Park, 5005 E. Los Angeles Avenue, Simi Valley, CA 93063.

The Ventura County Astronomical Society (VCAS) will hold it’s monthly membership meeting on Friday, January 20th, 2006 at 7:30 PM in the Multipurpose Room at Rancho Santa Susana Community Park, 5005 E. Los Angeles Avenue, Simi Valley, CA 93063. The speaker for that evening will be John Dobson, a living legend in Amateur Astronomy. To amateur astronomers John Dobson is a living legend, the man who out of necessity invented the type of telescope that today dominates visual astronomy. Mr. Dobson will most likely field questions and wax philosophical on optics, cosmology, the Big Bang theory (he thinks it is wrong) and the foibles of modern astronomy. John Dobson will be bringing a lesson to us that for decades he has been preaching “the riches of the heavens are there for the taking by anyone with a few simple materials”. The public is invited to share in this educational and enjoyable evening.