August Committee Meeting

 

PLEASE ATTEND TUESDAY'S COMMITTEE MEETING TO HELP THE PACK MAKE PLANS AND DECISIONS ABOUT YOUR SCOUT'S ACTIVITIES.

The Pack Committee helps ensure that our Cub Scouts are offered fun-filled and meaningful events through the year.

ALL parents are encouraged to attend and help enrich and strengthen our Pack. Topics will include upcoming August events, recruitment, fundraising, our fall campout, as well as plans for our upcoming meetings.

RSVP on Scoutbook and then call in on your cell phone or log in on your computer. It will be a ZOOM meeting so you can join us from anywhere. The link to the meeting agenda will be posted in the Comments field below the event on the ScoutBook calendar. We ask that you please print your own (no wasted paper) and any attachments.

The meeting begins at 7pm in the convenience of your own home, TUESDAY, AUGUST 2. 

Scout Night at the Cleburne Railroaders

 

Membership has its privileges and one of those is to attend Scout Night at the Cleburne Railroaders!

Cost is $27 per person and includes: game admission, hot dog & soda, field access after the game for a SLEEP OUT ON THE FIELD, nighttime movie on the jumbo screen, Dutch oven cobbler cookoff and breakfast the following morning -- oh, and don't forget a pat

Call and book your seats today or visit:  https://ilovetexasbaseball.com to register for this event enjoying America's favorite pasttime.

Who:  Scouts, friends and family

What: a night of baseball, movie and camping on the field

Where: 1906 Brazzle Blvd., Cleburne 

When:  Saturday, August 13, 7:05 pm

Join scouts from all over Longhorn Council

Registration deadline is August 6, 2022!

Spot The Space Station Tonight!

Watch the International Space Station pass overhead from several thousand worldwide locations. It is the third brightest object in the sky and easy to spot if you know when to look up.

Visible to the naked eye, it looks like a fast-moving plane only much higher and traveling thousands of miles an hour faster!

Following THIS LINK you can sign up to receive texts to be notified when the ISS is viewable from your location (Fort Worth is the nearest checkpoint for us in Keller).

The Spot The Station link provides information to explain what all the data means for the notification viewing availability.  In short, it answers just how to spot the station.

For instance, it will give you a text or e-mail that reads 

SpotTheStation! Time: Mon Jul 11 10:26 PM, Visible: 7 min, Max Height: 74 degrees, Appears: SW, Disappears 10 degrees above NE.

But what does all this sighting information mean?

Time is when the sighting opportunity will begin in your local time zone. All sightings will occur within a few hours before or after sunrise or sunset. This is the optimum viewing period as the sun reflects off the space station and contrasts against the darker sky.

Visible is the maximum time period the space station is visible before crossing back below the horizon.

Max Height is measured in degrees (also known as elevation). It represents the height of the space station from the horizon in the night sky. The horizon is at zero degrees, and directly overhead is ninety degrees. If you hold your fist at arm’s length and place your fist resting on the horizon, the top will be about 10 degrees.

Appears is the location in the sky where the station will be visible first. This value, like maximum height, also is measured in degrees from the horizon. The letters represent compass directions -- N is north, WNW is west by northwest, and so on.

Disappears represents where in the night sky the International Space Station will leave your field of view.

Happy ISS chasing