Member Observing Night
2025-08-23 19:30 - 23:30, 2025-09-20 19:30 - 23:30 (America/New_York) | Farash Center, 8355 County Road 14, Ionia, NY, 14475, United States
If clear skies, take advantage of New Moon weekend with member Observing Night at the Farash Center. Please use the LOWER parking area and use red flashlights.
(Mark Minarich will be unavailable for this one, so looking for others to take the lead.)

Member FC Equipment Instruction Night Backup date
2025-08-27 19:00 - 20:30 | Farash Center, 8355 County Road 14, Ionia, NY, 14475, United States
The ASRAS Forum (usually the 4th Wednesday) takes a break for July and August. Instead, members may attend Equipment Instruction evening(s) at the Farash Center.
We have enough interest for July 23 to be a go. (August 27 is a back-up date / if enough interest and available instructors.)

ASRAS Board of Directors Meeting
2025-09-03 19:00 - 21:00, 2025-10-01 19:00 - 21:00 | Zoom
Members welcome to attend. Contact Tony Golumbeck for details.

September Monthly Meeting
2025-09-05 19:30 - 21:30 | Farash Center, 8355 County Road 14, Ionia, NY, 14475, United States
In-person at the Marian and Max Farash Center for Observational Astronomy in Ionia, NY. Will also be simulcast on zoom. Come early to socialize and setup telescopes for observing, if weather is conducive.
Speaker: Matt East, L3Harris
Topic: “The Search for Earth-like Planets”

Open House Sep2025
2025-09-07 12:00 - 15:00 | Farash Center, 8355 County Road 14, Ionia, NY, 14475, United States
Come out and see our facility’s layout when it’s light, and see some of the equipment we have for member’s use.
(If you’d like to get practice opening up and operating a building/telescope, please let us know via the e-mail group so we can try to ensure there will be someone there at the Open House to accommodate you. )

Public Observing Night
2025-09-19 19:30 - 23:00 | Farash Center, 8355 County Road 14, Ionia, NY, 14475, United States
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!
(Mark Minarich will be unavailable for this one, so looking for others to take the lead.)

Ionia Fall Festival
2025-09-20 10:00 - 16:30 | Farash Center, 8355 County Road 14, Ionia, NY, 14475, United States
ASRAS will offer tours of our Observatory during the annual Ionia Fall Festival! Some ASRAS members will also staff a table at the event.
https://www.ioniaumc.org may have additional details about the event.

ASRAS Astronomy Forum (September 2025)
2025-09-24 19:30 - 21:00 | Zoom
Topic: Optics
Presenter:
As with most Forums, it will be geared towards a beginning or less experienced audience. All are welcome to attend. Contact Craig Kaplan (ckaplan0951@gmail.com) for zoom link.

Private Event
2025-09-26 - 2025-09-28 | Farash Center, 8355 County Road 14, Ionia, NY, 14475, United States

October Monthly Meeting
2025-10-03 19:30 - 21:30 | RIT Carlson 1125, RIT Carlson 1125, Rochester, NY, United States
In-person at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), Carlson Building Room 1125.
Will also be simulcast on zoom. Come as early as 7 pm to socialize.
Speaker: Sadie Coffin, RIT PhD Student in Astrophysics. Sadie also manages the citizen science project “Redshift Wrangler.” It is “hosted on the platform Zooniverse [and] invites and teaches participants to help our research team classify galaxy spectra and calculate redshifts for distant galaxies.”

Topic: “TBD”
Open and free for public to attend in-person.

Private Event
2025-10-04 - 2025-10-05, 2025-10-11, 2025-10-25 - 2025-10-26 | Farash Center, 8355 County Road 14, Ionia, NY, 14475, United States

Open House Oct2025
2025-10-05 12:00 - 15:00 | Farash Center, 8355 County Road 14, Ionia, NY, 14475, United States

Public Observing Night
2025-10-17 19:30 - 23:00 | Farash Center, 8355 County Road 14, Ionia, NY, 14475, United States
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!

Member Observing Night
2025-10-18 19:30 - 23:30 | Farash Center, 8355 County Road 14, Ionia, NY, 14475, United States
If clear skies, take advantage of New Moon weekend with member Observing Night at the Farash Center. Please use the LOWER parking area and use red flashlights.

Astronomy Monthly Forum (Astro 101)
2025-10-22 19:30 - 20:30 | Farash Center, 8355 County Road 14, Ionia, NY, 14475, United States
DIY Smartphone Astrophotography (Brian Oyer & Kevin Lyons)

Farash Center Open House
2025-11-02 12:00 - 15:00
Members and non-members alike are welcome to come to the Marian and Max Farash Center for Observational Astronomy, where you can meet some of our members and take a look at our educational and telescope facilities. During this time members will also be working on site maintenance and improvements.

ASRAS Board of Directors Meeting
2025-11-05 19:00 - 21:00

ASRAS Monthly Meeting
2025-11-07 19:30 - 21:30 | RIT Carlson 1125, RIT Carlson 1125, Rochester, NY, United States
Annual election of new officers and Board of Directors
Presentation: Crater Morphology on Mars (Nicholas Warner PhD, Geneseo State University)

ASRAS December Meeting and Holiday Party
2025-12-05 17:30 - 22:00 | RMSC Strasenburgh Planetarium, RMSC Strasenburgh Planetarium, Rochester, NY, United States
ASRAS Annual Holiday Party Extravaganza at RMSC Strasenburgh Planetarium! Please bring an Appetizer, Dessert or Beverage to pass! 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM set up

ASRAS Board of Directors meeting
2025-12-10 19:00 - 21:00
via Zoom (link distributed to Board prior to meeting)
NOTE: This is one week later than our usual monthly Board meetings.
