Topic: Making Your Own Solar Funnel Presenter: Mark Minarich Contact Craig Kaplan for zoom link. The third ASRAS Forum of 2024. NOTE THIS WILL BE BOTH IN PERSON at FC and on Zoom. In-person attendees will be able to gets hands-on if they bring materials. Solar funnel materials and tools
Members welcome to attend. Contact Tony Golumbeck for details.
Eclipse glasses will be available. Totality Shirts to be available. Check out the four designs here In-person at the Farash Center. We'll talk weather forecasts, backup plans, and distribute glasses, solar filter material, and shirts. Observing to follow, if clear.
Join ASRAS VP David Bishop and other volunteers at the ASRAS Table at the RMSC ROC-the-eclipse festival on April 6th and April 7th.
Public Observing at the RMSC Strasenburgh Planetarium slated to resume with Jim Seidewand and Don Chamberlain. Contact Jim if you want to help / learn the Stras' scopes.
Join ASRAS VP David Bishop and other volunteers at the ASRAS Table at the RMSC ROC-the-eclipse festival on April 6th and April 7th.
Observatory closed to public for private event.
We'll hope to observe on April 13th from 8pm to 10:30pm this night with clearing skies expected about observing time. A thin crescent Moon and Jupiter in the West will be the early targets, and a few dim objects like the Orion Nebula after 9pm as it gets darker. Watch
We'll hope to observe on April 20th from 8pm to 10:30pm this night with clearing skies expected about observing time. A 90% gibbous Moon and a shaky, low Jupiter in the West will be the early targets, and a few dim objects like the Orion Nebula after 9pm as it
Come out and learn to use some of the equipment available at the Farash Center! (in the daylight)
Mark your calendars: On Thursday April 25 the RAS will host their annual meeting and election in our normal meeting spot at RIT, Carlson 1125. The speaker, Professor Adam Frank of the University of Rochester, will discuss the search for alien life. The meeting will start at 7 pm and