We had great success at our first Annual Telescope Tune-Up Day yesterday! We had about 18 people bring in telescopes for cleaning, alignment, and instruction! Thanks to our hardworking volunteers! Ken Kressler Don Chamberlin Dave Thompson Tom Yale Thanks to Steve Fentress and Strasenburgh for allowing us to set up
The goal of this project is to study the RF signature of Sunspots, as part of the e-Callisto global network. We’re going to be filling a big gap in their coverage map as there are no receivers on the east coast. If you’ve been following our activities you already know
Original posting: 14 September 2016 by Joel SchmidOriginal location: rochesterastronomy.org/ionia-fall-festival-sat-sep-17/
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.