Patrick Edward Murray:
That reminds me, I think we should invent a substance that can act as a
lady attractant and spray it Liberally on a telescope tube. Perhaps
then we can have more female observers in astronomy clubs?

RMOLLISE:
You don't? My local club and most of the clubs I visit these days have
a decent percentage of female observers. If you don't, maybe y'all need
to take a hard look at the way things are done. Beer shotgun contests
following the meetings are not generally a good way to attract (all)
women. ;-)

I'm not certain that Mr. Murray is interested in attracting females as
/observers/ ;--)

The Howard Astronomical League http://www.howardastro.org has a
number of skilled female astronomers, including one woman who is can
point her Dob to damned near any Messier, Herschel, or NGC object with
the same ease as you can point to your kitchen table. And then she'll
produce a beautiful drawing of the object and make you wonder why you
spent all that money on cameras...

But it would be good to have more female members. Females, after all,
possess /at/ /least/ half of the intelligence in the world.

Davoud

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