ASRAS Events

Music Trivia Astro Jeopardy Evening Observing (weather permitting)

"Dollar Dogs" for lunch Afternoon talks Silent Auction Door Prizes BBQ Dinner and Feature Presentation (Peter Miller on the Nancy  Roman Space Telescope) Peter Miller graduated from the University of Rochester with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and began his career at Xinetics (now part of Northrop Grumman). He then

On August 7 we will be holding a telescope training event. Attendees can get trained to use the 20" Dob telescope (Wolk Building), Cave telescope, or Big Dome telescope. Preregistration is strongly encouraged (contact Craig Kaplan - president@ASRAS.org - to register. This event is open to ASRAS members only.

Cancelled. On August 7, we will be holding a telescope training event for ASRAS members.

This work party will be to prepare the Farash Center for Bob McGovern's Celebration of Life event on August 15. Activities will include classroom building and observatory clean-up and setup, and brush clearing along the driveway for parking. Let's make Farash shine to honor Bob!

Please add this to your calendars – all are welcome! If you plan to attend, please contact Ann and Cindy McGovern at ann_mcgovern@hotmail.com and Cindymcgovern@comcast.net so they can plan for food. They'd also love to receive any photos of Bob you'd like to share at those same addresses.

Speaker: Sean Linden (RIT) Topic: Galactic Mergers

Speaker: Adrian Boyer Topic: Introduction to Quantum Mechanics, Part 2. Adrian will continue his discussion of Quantum Mechanics (Part 1 was delivered on April 22. Recording is available.)