Monthly Meeting: September 10, 2026 – Europa Clipper & the Search for Life on Ocean Worlds
September 10, 2026 Public Monthly Meeting
Public Star Party (Alpha Ridge) 8/22/2026
Clear Skies!
Past Monthly Meeting: August 13, 2026 – Working the Mission: An Inside Look at NASA’s Artemis Science Team
Travels to Dark Skies. Tales and images.
Public Sun Party (Alpha Ridge) 8/12/2026
Clear Skies!
The Sky At Night – September 2026
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Public Star Party (Alpha Ridge) 7/25/2026
Clear Skies!
Impromptu Star Party (Alpha Ridge) 7/23/2026
There was a great turnout of HAL members for last night’s impromptu star party. Thirteen of us gathered to enjoy the pleasant weather and above-average sky conditions. A diverse collection of telescopes with apertures ranging from 24mm to 350mm were deployed for both imaging and visual observing. Bianca imaged the Eagle Nebula (M16) with the […]
Impromptu Star Party (Alpha Ridge) 7/13/2026
It was another nearly-perfect night of observing at Alpha Ridge Park Monday night. There were no clouds visible at sunset, although there was some high-altitude wildfire smoke that put some structure into the sky. The temperature was actually a little cool, dipping into the low 60s by 2:30am, with no dew and calm winds. Transparency […]
Monthly Meeting: July 9, 2026 – Astronomy made simple
Travels to Dark Skies. Tales and images.
Impromptu Star Party (Alpha Ridge) 6/24/2026
Six HAL members attended last night’s moonlight impromptu star party at Alpha Ridge Park. The weather was fine, seeing and transparency were about average and the skies were clear except for a thin haze of high clouds. Federico and a companion were imaging with an equatorially-mounted Seestar S30, but they left before I made my […]