Steve Conard Willow Oak Observatory, Gamber, MD International Occultation Timing Association (IOTA) Oct 19, 2012

I proposed this idea to IOTA at the 2010 meeting, and received approval to go forward with it Developed the requirements for this program (notethese use to be called clubs by AL, but this has recently changed) Had input from a fair number of IOTA members Plan was to present this at the summer 2012 AL meeting in Chicago

Contacted Aaron Clevenson (one of AL program coordinators) He encouraged us to go forward with it Sent Aaron our proposed requirements, and made some changes based on his feedback Completed most of the requirements for submission Main form completed Missing website design and pin design

7 successful observations of asteroid events, with one being a positive 3 must have the asteroid visible and be recorded or sketched as it approaches the star 15 total lunar occultations 1 must be a double star 3 must be reappearances 3 lunar grazes successfully observed 1 must have had multiple events

Contacted AL President Carroll Iorg to get on the agenda By the time I found out what day I would need to be there, it was too late to obtain the free airline tickets that I had hoped to use--due to being week of July 4th Carroll had also warned us that we were unlikely to be approved this year because of the number of other submissions AL is limited by budget, and this limits the number of new clubs per year These two issues caused me to cancel going to Chicago The AL considered our proposal anyway in my absence

We were not approved for this year We were encouraged to apply again next year Next years AL meeting is in the Atlanta area

Do we want to continue to pursue this?