ASRAS Events

Speaker: Jennifer Indovina, RIT Visiting Lecturer and RIT Engineering Alumna, Topic: Astronaut Transitions back to Earth Note this meeting will occur on September 8 to avoid Labor Day weekend. https://www.rochesterfirst.com/space/rit-students-work-with-nasa-to-help-astronauts-transition-back-to-earth/amp/ https://www.rit.edu/news/engineering-alumna-wins-new-york-emmy-as-host-youth-program-i-can-be-what

Come out and learn to use some of the equipment available at the Farash Center!

Join us for Public Observing at the Marian and Max Farash Center for Observational Astronomy. All welcome. Members come help visitors look at deep sky objects through our telescopes!

Open to public.  25th Anniversary Ionia Fall Festival (Annual event).  More details at https://www.ioniaumc.org/pdffiles/2023fallfestival.pdf   ASRAS participates by giving tours of the Farash Center and Observatories during this event, guests transported via hayride.

This is a free RMSC event that ASRAS will be helping at, described at https://rochesterfringe.com/tickets-and-shows/astrofringe as "A Celestial Stargazing Experience brings the Rochester Museum and Science Center, RMSC Community Eclipse Ambassadors and the Astronomy Section of the Rochester Academy of Science together to introduce you to close-up looks at stars

This is a free RMSC event that ASRAS will be helping at, described at https://rochesterfringe.com/tickets-and-shows/astrofringe as "A Celestial Stargazing Experience brings the Rochester Museum and Science Center, RMSC Community Eclipse Ambassadors and the Astronomy Section of the Rochester Academy of Science together to introduce you to close-up looks at stars

The ASRAS Astronomy Forum returns after a summer break.  First session will be led by our friend Dr. Kelly Douglass, C.E.K. Mees Observatory Director and University of Rochester Faculty, with the topic: Cosmic Distance Scale. https://www.pas.rochester.edu/~kdouglass/ Contact Carol Latta for zoom link.

Come out and learn to use some of the equipment available at the Farash Center!

Speaker:  Dr. Tony Whitman, L3Harris.  Dr. Whitman was in charge of testing the mirror on the JWST here in Rochester.  We will meet at the Farash Center, weather-permitting.