Public Star Party (Alpha Ridge) 5/03/2025
Second Public Star Party of 2025. Enthusiastic group gathered in spite of the clouds!
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 transparency was about average — mySky Quality meter reported sky brightness as low as 19.8 mag/square arcsec — and the seeing was about average at […]
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 and 12 other members showed up. Unfortunately the skies were a little cloudy during the first few hours but the weather was nice and most […]
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 edge of the solar disk. Thanks to my friend Steve J. for making me aware of it.
This was captured as a monochrome (B&W) image and for artistic impact, artificially colored using Adobe Lightroom Classic; viewers love the yellow Sun. 🙂 This picture was capture using a 60mm Lunt Hα telescope in the double stack configuration.
Camera: ZWO ASI294MC Pro
Capture software: SharpCap
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 April 17, 2025 at 7 PM on Zoom and at the Robinson Nature Center STELLA combines inexpensive sensors with […]
Earth Day 2025 Activities
Celebrate Earth Day 2025. Events begin on Saturday April 19, 2025
Public Star Party (Alpha Ridge) 4/05/2025
First Public Star Party of 2025. Over 200 attended on this fine night!
Past Meeting: March 20th, 2025 – Shedding Light on the Dark Side of the Universe
Presenter: Dr. Rutuparna Das, Astrophysicist with the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian Artifacts: Meeting PDF YouTube Video of Meeting Chat Log The meeting took place at 7 PM at the Robinson Nature Center and on Zoom. Topic: Shedding Light on the Dark Side of the Universe Brief description of […]
The Sky At Night – May 2025
Upcoming Night Sky Maps & Events