Traditional visual astronomy is an undoubtedly joyous thing. It’s those first looks at the cloud belts of Jupiter, the rings of Saturn and the stunning cores of globular clusters that hooked us on this hobby to begin with. If you have enough aperture (your telescope is big enough), you can even catch some “faint fuzzies” … galaxies. Unfortunately for us (and the interested public), those “fuzzies” are exactly that… featureless grey smudges that don’t resemble anything let alone galaxies. But alas, aperture is expensive, time consuming, difficult to set up and difficult to maintain and, before you realize it, your […]
Anthony Krishock
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*** SAS Members *** Our moon & planets event scheduled for tonight (Friday, 9/10) is on! Come and join us at Darling Hill Observatory off of Route 81 south (Exit 14). All are welcome! It will get into the mid 50’s tonight, so please dress appropriately. Masks will be required.
*** SAS Members *** Our observing session scheduled for tonight (Friday, 9/3) is on! Come and join us at Darling Hill Observatory off of Route 81 south (Exit 14). All are welcome! It will get into the mid 50’s tonight, so please dress appropriately. Masks will be required.
*** SAS Members *** Our observing session scheduled for tonight (Friday, 8/27) is on! Come and join us at Darling Hill Observatory off of Route 81 south (Exit 14). All are welcome!Please dress warmly. Long pants, a long sleeve T-shirt and a jacket or sweater is recommended. Bug spray and a bag chair are also helpful. Oh.. and please don’t forget a mask!