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0:00Starts with a Earth Sky plant nitrogen bit and pre 9am talk waiting for TomW to show.
8:28 TomW gets to describe his Westmont Adjunct Instructor job and Baron asks about metals and electrons.  ChuckM points out that anything above Helium in Astronomy is considered a metal.
18:36 in we mention the upcoming meeting on Friday, April 1 with Sarah Greenstreet talking about Plutoids.  Baron asks about binary stars and TomW does a review of his Lab on Inductors. 
30:35 Chuck talks about the need to write the County Supervisors on revising the lighting standards, Richard Dupre asks what the international organization on dark skies is (IDA?).  TW says Tucson, AZ had restrictions on lights to protect the observatories there.  B asks if Pluto can be observed in small telescopes, yes, but just a dot.  CM says lights just help out the taggers at night!
40:22 CM mentions WE Watch, Women's Environmental Watch trying to reduce bad lighting.  JerryW says foxtails are coming out at Ellwood and $800 to take dog to vet, so he is going to walk on the beach during dry weather.  B asks about dimensions in space and Jerry, Chuck, and TomW give examples of 3D moving thru time.  JW says maybe temperature gets hotter below absolute zero! 
48:58 Baron sees the newsletter outreach list, TW talks about folks taking photos at Westmont.  End at 54:23.
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