June Meeting with Gerry Dyck

The first of three presenters was Nicholas Rodrigues of Printmakers Inc. Nicholas’s company is starting a new type of photo printing on metallic paper. He had several astronomical pictures provided by Bob Horton to display. One a 24” x 32” shot of the Milky Way and Bob’s famous Eclipse composite. Needless to say both were stunning, perhaps the best astro photo that I have ever seen. We look forward to Nicholas attending AstroAssembly with more details and more astro photography. • The second presenter was Gerry Dyck who presented “Cosmological Motifs in Southeast Asian Bronze Drums” Gerry described the various styles of drum and the many symbols on each drum. The theme of the drums was that the center of the drums represented a rain drop, followed by fish and ducks, ending with frogs at the rim. Frogs equal rain and rain equals frogs. Gerry also had several different drum rubbings on display. • The third presenter was Nathan Pelletier, a student from Tiverton High School whom Gerry Dyck mentored for his senior project. His project was the Sun which he presented in a power point presentation. Also on display was a solar spectrograph which he constructed. Congratulations on a project well done.
  • Gerry Dyck's rubbings of some of the Southeast Asian drums
  • Nathan's solar spectrograph
  • Nathan Pelletier
  • Nicholas Rodrigues of Printmakers demonstrates a new printing service using Bob Horton's Milky Way p
  • Gerry Dyck
  • Gerry's drum
  • Nathan demonstrates his solar spectrograph
  • Gerry Dyck's Southeast Asian drum
  • Gerry Dyck at June 2008 Meeting
  • Nicholas Rodrigues of Printmakers demonstrates a new printing service using Bob Horton's lunar eclip