Members welcome to attend. Contact Tony Golumbeck for details.

Strasenburgh Saturday night free telescope observing for 7/13/24: The night looks to be clear, with pleasant temps in the 70's. This week is the first quarter Moon when the terminator, the day/night line, is right in the center of the Moon and the long shadows give us great views of

Strasenburgh free telescope observing update for tonight, 7/20/24: It's going to be mostly clear to partly cloudy tonight with pleasant temps in the low 70's, but with limited objects available. The Moon is full, not the time to see much detail, and by the time it rises above the trees

The forecast is clear for tonight. But we have no planets or Moon, so we are limited to dim deep sky objects after 9:30 pm. Our main concern for tonight is that we may have hazy skies again, we've been struggling with that for 3 weeks, and even some Canadian

Alanna Dolen of the Cumming Nature Center (part of RMSC) has invited ASRAS members to attend a Perseid Meteor Shower viewing event, and bring expertise and/or portable telescopes if possible. "8 pm - 11 pm so that people can hike out in daylight, but we'll have a lantern lit trail