Events
The 10 International Festival of Astronomy of Marrakesh
of 24 in 30 october 2009
exposures
shows
festival child
stars party
practical workshops
FREE Star Party at the Antietam National Battlefield, Sharpsburg, MD.
When: The evenings of October 16 and 17, 2009
Time: From 6pm until 11pm
Bring the whole family anytime throughout the evening and look through our telescopes at the wonders of the Fall night sky!
Telescopes will be set up near the parking lot of the Battlefield Visitor Center. The Star Party will be cancelled if the sky is cloudy
Visit www.TriStateAstronomers.org
FREE Star Party at the Antietam National Battlefield, Sharpsburg, MD.
When: The evenings of October 16 and 17
Time: From 6pm until 11pm
Bring the whole family anytime throughout the evening and look through our telescopes at the wonders of the Fall night sky!
Telescopes will be set up near the parking lot of the Battlefield Visitor Center. The Star Party will be cancelled if the sky is cloudy
Visit www.TriStateAstronomers.org
Join the Bucks-Mont Astronomical Association for its 23rd annual Stella Della Valley Star Party to be held October 16-18th 2009. The event will be at Camp Onas in beautiful Bucks County in southeastern Pennsylvania. For complete information and registration materials visit our website: http://www.bma2.org/sdv.html
You asked for it? You got it. The Hidden Hollow weekend Star Party at Warren Rupp Observatory will be back again this year the weekend of September 18-20!
For long time star party fans, you know the legend of Hidden Hollow as one of the friendliest and most comfortable star parties around. We're nestled deep in the woods of Hidden Hollow resident camp in northeast Ohio near the town of Mansfield. Each year we provide some of the finest guest speakers available and they join in the fun! You'll see our speakers and all of our great and unusual activities. Tired of the same old type of Star Party? You won't be bored this year, I promise. You're going to really enjoy the things we have to offer!
Unlike other star parties, we provide cabins and bunkhouses for your comfort, as well as primative camping, hot showers, modern restrooms and a food service vendor. If it rains? It's no problem. We have indoor facilities and all activities go on. There's warm areas where you can gather around a fire and converse, places to watch movies, play cards or just hang out. The observing field is well-drained and groomed with plenty of "space" to go around and, of course, you won't want to miss the views through the Obsevatory's incredible 31" Big Blue Beast!
One of the most appealing parts about Hidden Hollow is the location itself. Even if you aren't interested in staying up all night observing, you'll fully appreciate the fine scenery of the camp itself. During the Fall season, Ohio offers some of the most spectacular foilage in the United States and the pristine, quiet and peaceful surroundings of Hidden Hollow are an ideal place to relax and have an enjoyable weekend. There's plenty of trails to walk in the woods and nearby attractions, restaurants and shopping. Children and families are always welcome here!
Thanks to wide open spaces and peaceful seclusion you'll have a wonderful time at the Hidden Hollow Star Party. Our guests have voted us #1 as one of the most beautiful astronomical retreats in the country. During your weekend stay you'll be treated like family as you enjoy our many workshops, contests, vendors, programs, fantastic prizes and observing. We welcome visitors of all ages and you'll find that no matter where you roam... There's no place like our home!
Come on in. Explore our guest speakers such as Brent Archinal from the Lunar Orbiter Program, Warren Keller, Al Loew from NASA/Glenn, Dave Holden, Ed Jones and more! Our activities and the things you'll have to do and see while you're here are listed on our Hidden Hollow Website and we know you'll enjoy yourself. Join us here for Hidden Hollow '09 and you see why our friends return year after year!
| In August 2009, come to the Cypress Hills Dark Sky Preserve and do something never done before at an RASC General Assembly: be armchair astronomers during the day and real astronomers at night! We are delighted that the 2009 RASC General Assembly has been awarded to the Saskatoon Centre of the RASC. The 2009 GA will be held in conjunction with the Saskatchewan Summer Star Party. 2009 is also the International Year of Astronomy and the 2009 GA will be held, for the first time, at a dark sky site. It is our goal to provide an affordable, memorable GA where participants can observe under some of the darkest skies in Canada, and still enjoy the traditional social & business activities of a GA.
What better place to hold the GA than at the Cypress Hills Dark-Sky Preserve, with light pollution abatement featured as one of IYA's themes? The GA will include all the activities of past GAs but will also include observing and clinics under magnitude 7+ skies! Cabin, condo and hotel rooms are available. There is also ample room for tents and powered RV sites. Planned day-time events include a BBQ, the Ruth Northcott Lecture, solar observing, an IYA "Galileo Moment", scientific presentations and poster sessions, a Wine and Cheese reception, the Fr. Lucien Kemble Lecture, Banquet, tours of the Maple Creek Winery and Fort Walsh, National Council meetings and Annual Meeting. CHIPP and the Cypress Hills DSP are located in southwestern corner of Saskatchewan 30km south of Maple Creek on Hwy 21. Nearest fly-in centres are Saskatoon, Regina, Calgary (and possibly Medicine Hat, AB). Centre Representatives who are planning to fly in for the weekend should book into Saskatoon (YXE) where they will be met, housed, fed and transported to and from the SSSP/GA'09 by kind, friendly Saskatoon Centre chaperones. We will have some loaner telescopes and camping equipment available for reps that cannot bring their own. For those who can fly into Saskatoon on Tuesday August 11, we have arranged a tour of the Canadian Light Source (the "synchrotron") at the University of Saskatchewan campus on Tuesday evening. For more information, contact the SSSP/GA organizing committee at:sssp.sk@sasktel.net. http://homepage.usask.ca/~ges125/rasc/sssp2009.html
Latitude: 49.652 deg. N; Longitude: 109.521 deg. W |
The yearly Astronomical League Convention is hosted this year by the Amateur Observers' Society of NY at Hofstra University in Long Island, NY. While the talks take place on Fri and Sat, we want you to enjoy a fun filled astronomy week starting on Sunday, Aug 2. See our web site www.alcon2009.org and come join us for a great time.
We are joined by ALPO, AAVSO, Custer Institute, NYSkies and AAA.
The Fri night StarBQue will be held at our observatory housing a C-14.
2009 Mulberry Mountain / AOAS Regional Star Party
The Arkansas/Oklahoma Astronomy Society is proud to announce their second annual 2009 Mulberry Mountain / AOAS Star Regional Party, to be held on June 19th & 20th, 2009.
Once again, this year's event will take place at Mulberry Mountain Lodging & Events, which is a 650-acre facility located 16 miles north of Interstate 40, on Arkansas Hwy 23, near the city of Ozark, Arkansas. Highway 23 is otherwise known as the Pig Trail Scenic Byway. The facility boasts some of "The Darkest Skies in Arkansas," at GPS coordinates 35°42'41.70"N 093°47'49.84"W.
http://mulberrymountainlodge.com/index.htm
Mulberry Mountain offers cabins, pull-through RV sites and improved tent campsites with water, electricity & showers. Virtually unlimited primitive campsites are also available. Contact Mulberry Mountain Lodging & Events by phone at (866) 667-1919 or by e-mail at mulberrymountain@aol.com for lodging information and reservations.
AOAS plans to set up a Public Observation Area on the south side of the resort on Friday and Saturday evenings. Several of our members' telescopes will be available. Non-members may set up their equipment in the Public Observation Area if they wish. All scopes are welcome.
Vendors are being invited, and a "Swap Meet" will take place Saturday afternoon where anyone will be able to buy, sell, or trade any astronomical items.
The newly formed Arkansas Section of the International Dark Sky Association will have a presentation and conduct a short business meeting in the Conference Center, just before the Speaker Events on Saturday the 20th.
We are having several Guest Speakers that are some of the best Arkansas has to offer and are all University of Arkansas Professors and Astronomy/Physics Researchers..............
Here are some of the Guest Speaker details:
Dr. Marc Seigar, professor of Astronomy at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, and his co-researchers Professors Daniel Kennefick, Julia Kennefick, Professors at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville: Dr. Seigar led recent research and published results in various periodicals concerning "Massive Black Holes and the Structure of Spiral Galaxies".
Topic - "Black Hole and Dark Matter Research"
http://arkansasmatters.com/content/fulltext/news/?cid=103681
http://ualr.edu/mxseigar/
http://www.24-7pressrelease.com/press-release/marc-seigar-phd-honored-by-cambridge-whos-who-for-excellence-in-astronomy-and-cosmology-research-and-education-80799.php
Professor Daniel Kennefick: Topic - "Not Only Because of Theory": Eddington, Dyson and the 1919 Solar Eclipse Expedition Which Tested General Relativity.
http://ptonline.aip.org/getabs/servlet/GetabsServlet?prog=normal&id=PHTOAD000062000003000037000001&idtype=cvips&gifs=Yes
Dr. Derek Sears: W.M. Keck Professor of Space and Planetary Sciences, University of Arkansas at Fayetteville; Director of the Arkansas Center for Space and Planetary Sciences. Dr. Sears focuses his research on meteorites, the origins of other extraterrestrial materials and on near surface processes on Mars.
Topic - "Ménage à Trois: Earth, Meteorites, and the Asteroids"
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/2005M&PS...40..655S
http://dailyheadlines.uark.edu/3447.htm
Wade Van Arsdale, member of the Central Arkansas Astronomical Society (CAAS) and co-founder and Vice President, Arkansas Section of the International Dark Sky Association.
Mr. Van Arsdale hails from Little Rock and is a well-known in the amateur astronomy community and is an accomplished astro-imager. Wade will be presenting an excellent introduction to astro-imaging for the beginning and intermediate amateur astronomer.
Topic - Getting Started In Astro-Imaging
For more information:
http://www.compubuild.com/astro/
A $5.00 donation will be requested for Guest Speaker events and tickets will be used in drawings for donated door prizes.
For more information, contact Leonard Lynch at:
Phone: 479-782-1131
email: nspace01@swbell.net
The Huachuca Astronomy Club,
in cooperation with Celestron and Starizona present:
C-Row Star-B-Q
at the RepoGazer Observatory (RGO), an All-Celestron Two-Day Star Party and BBQ in the High Southeastern Arizona Desert - June 19th and 20th
On Site Support from Celestron Technicians and a special speech by Celestron CEO, Joe Lupica!
DOOR PRIZES! Celestron CPC 800 Telescope Raffle!
Featuring World Renowned Speakers:
- Bob Gent
- Steve Coe
- Kim Rogalski
- Special Guest: David Levy
RV's, Camping and Lodging Available
http://www.hacastronomy.com/starbq/index.htm
Children's Librarian
The Joy of Space Exploration
May 30t
Paul A. Biane Library at Victoria Gardens
Rancho Cucamonga Library Services
(909)477-2720 ext. 5073
Family Saturdays are offered at 2 and 3 pm,