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Upcoming Meeting: May 15th, 2025 – Science on Mount Wilson’s 100″ Hooker telescope – Restarting research on a historic instrument

Presenter: Dale Ghent, Member of STELAR, NINA contributor and plugin author The meeting will take place on May 15, 2025 at 7 PM on Zoom and at the Robinson Nature

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June 14 SkyWatching
Public Star Watch at Howard County Conservancy 6/14/2025
Public Star Watch at Howard County Conservancy
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Public Star Party (Alpha Ridge) 5/03/2025
Second Public Star Party of 2025. Enthusiastic group gathered in spite of the clouds!
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Impromptu Star Party (Alpha Ridge) 4/27/2025

The weather was very nice for last night’s impromptu star party at Alpha Ridge Park. The wind was calm and temperatures were cool, welcome additions to the clear skies. The

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Impromptu Star Party (Alpha Ridge) 4/23/2025

Good evening HAL, I hosted an impromptu Star party on Wednesday since the weather report showed we would have clear skies. I arrived at Alpha Ridge Park at 7:30 pm

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April 2025 Image of The Month, “Our Sun, March 25th, 2025”
From Phil: I was able to capture this picture through a thin cloud layer. They just did not want to entirely clear for me. Very nice prominence off the right
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Mike Taylor
Past Meeting: April 17th, 2025 – STELLA (Science and Technology Education for Land / Life Assessment):  A low-cost open-source remote sensing instruments for education and research

Presenter: Mike Taylor, Outreach Scientist, SSAI, NASA Goddard on the Landsat Communications and Public Engagement team Artifacts: Meeting PDF YouTube Video of Meeting Chat Log The meeting took place on

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Earth Day 2025
Earth Day 2025 Steve Pribut
Earth Day 2025 Activities
Celebrate Earth Day 2025. Events begin on Saturday April 19, 2025
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07jun6:00 pm11:00 pmPublic Star PartyAlpha Ridge Park

14jun8:00 pm11:00 pmSkywatch At HC Conservancy June 14

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21jun6:00 pm11:00 pmMembers-Only Star PartyAlpha Ridge Park

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05jul6:00 pm11:00 pmPublic Star PartyAlpha Ridge Park

17jul7:00 pm9:00 pmHAL General Meeting, July 2025Topic: TBD

26jul6:00 pm11:00 pmMembers-Only Star PartyAlpha Ridge Park

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Howard Astronomical League is a 501(c)(3) non profit institution located in Central Maryland