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Click on the following link to open the Oct 4 virtual star party. Click on the ‘Play’ arrow at the lower left corner to start playback.

https://lb-sl-v1.meetingspace.cloud/playback/presentation/2.0/playback.html?meetingId=3bcc64efbf4d748bd83ed2e2bbbb63f639d33f67-1601852420775

Associated You Tube recording:

Click Here to view the July Meeting Video. Turn on your computer speaker.

Click on the ‘Play’ arrow at the bottom left hand corner to start playback. Note: this recording is mostly audio.

Click here to view the July 24 Star Party Video recording.

Turn on your audio, and click the arrow at the lower left hand corner to start the presentation.

Click Here to view the May Meeting Video. Turn on your computer speaker.

Click on the ‘Play’ arrow at the bottom left hand corner to start playback.

Click here to view video: Don’t forget to turn on your speaker.

Connie Jones from the U of R Physics and Astronomy office would like to announce the Elliott Montroll lectures with Prof David Stevenson from Cal Tech.
Lecture dates will be :
Feb 20: Planetary Diversity, 4:00 pm, Bausch and Lomb Hall 109
Feb 21: Origin of the Moon, 4:00 pm, Lander Auditorium, Hutchison Hall
Feb 22: Jupiter, 7:00 pm, Memorial Art Gallery Auditorium
Click links below to see more details for each lecture
Elliott Montroll Poster (all 3 lectures)
2018 PAS poster
2018 MAG poster
2018 ESS poster

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 in the lobby.

All of our customers were very happy and excited we were able to help them.

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

ASRAS NEEDS YOU !

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