We had a fantastic talk for our main speaker last night from the RIT Space Exploration Group! They showed us the cool cube satellite projects they are working on. You can see more on their website and facebook page here: facebook.com/ritspex And twitter here: twitter@ritspex Original posting: 11 September 2016
Please consider volunteering for future ASRAS events. We are badly in need of some help for the following activities: Strasenburgh scope on Sat nights! Star parties! (contact Jim Seidewand) Outreach events! (contact Joe Alteri) Mowing at Ionia! (contact Bob McGovern) Thanks! Joel Original posting: 10 September 2016 by Joel SchmidOriginal
ASRAS Membership meeting – Friday Sep 9 at RIT! RIT: Gosnell Science Bldg; 1st floor room A-300 lecture hall Jefferson Road Rochester, NY14623 Please note the location change! Dave Bishop has some RIT students lined up to give a special talk and we need to move to RIT for this meeting.
Welcome to the new site everybody! Original posting: 09 July 2016 by Joel SchmidOriginal location: rochesterastronomy.org/welcome-new-asras-website/
We are in our third year of active development projects to look at the night sky in the Radio Spectrum and have been able to complete some major accomplishments. This past school year has seen both the University of Rochester (U of R), and Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) deliver
Most people think they have to have a 50 foot dish in the backyard to do any Radio Astronomy. It just ain’t so!! Besides getting on your wife’s short list for casting a large dark shadow over her petunias, with the way things are these days, you might even get