This month’s star party will be at Brower Observatory on Saturday, July 26, 2014, the night of the new moon. Anticipating the perfect Saturday evening, Colin has the newly-refigured, freshly-coated mirror installed in the 16″ in the dome, so stunning views await us. Tests have shown faint structures to be more clearly visible than before….
A reminder about tonight’s cloud party at the science camp at Camp Mechuwana in Winthrop: So far, two of us have arranged to teach astronomy to school children. Conditions are expected to be impossible for a star party, at least cloudy and maybe rainy, so we’ll be teaching inside instead. This is a sharp group…
Sorry for the surprise, but it is necessary to change the star party originally planned for this weekend (Saturday, July 19, 2014) to next weekend (Saturday, July 26). The party was originally planned to be one week before the new moon, to avoid conflict with next week’s Stellafane convention in Vermont. With none of us…
