Monthly meetings are held on the second Tuesday of each month at 7:30 PM online at this link
I sure wish Richmond had seen this kind of creativity when they used a similar contest to name the local baseball team The Flying Squirrels. Capt. Kirks Vulcan entry wins Pluto moons contest – WTOP.com.
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SKIMMING BY EARTH AT ONLY 17,000 MILES (27,330 KM) AWAY
Great representations of the size of the solar system, from Earth to the location of Voyager. Solar System Explained From the Inside Out Infographic | Solar System, Planets & Moons | Solar System Explained | Space.com.
. The Richmond Astronomical Society was asked to pass along this survey request to astronomy hobbyists. Please consider helping the researchers by completing the online survey as described below. The link to the survey is here. . Web Announcement Science Hobbyists Needed for a National Study . Are you a science hobbyist? . We need … Read more
If you’re an early riser, you can see 3 planets in the morning sky-look east, Venus is the brightest, Saturn above right and Mercury below left This Weeks Sky at a Glance – SkyandTelescope.com.
Jason Roop’s (Editor of Style Magazine) newsletter highlighted us this week. It included this verbiage, which contains a link to the Style Magazine page describing our sky watch. [embedit snippet=”quote”] WEEKEND ASSIGNMENTS: 1. Gaze at the stars through these powerful lenses with the Richmond Astronomical Society. Thanks, Jason. And here’s a clip of the page. [embedit snippet=”clear”]
The peak of this show is either tonight (Saturday, Aug. 11), or tomorrow night, depending on which web site you look at. But I’d go with Sunday, because we’re going to be clouded out tonight in Richmond. This is one of the best meteor showers of the year, and I was planning on trying tonight too, because even though the peak will last only a few hours, there will be a heavier frequency of meteors for a week on either side of the peak. The closer to the peak, the better, of course.
Curiosity is scheduled to land in the Red Planet’s Gale Crater late Sunday or very, very early Monday, depending on your Earthbound time zone. Confirmation of the landing should come at about 10:31 p.m. PT Sunday for folks on the U.S. West Coast, or 1:31 a.m. ET Monday for those on the East Coast. The … Read more
No spacecraft has ever landed like this before and NASA admits it’ll be a wild ride. NASA’s Mars Curiosity Rover, a 2,000 pound (900 kilogram) SUV-sized robotic science laboratory, is scheduled to touch down on August 6 at 1:31 a.m. EDT. Mission managers say Curiosity’s trip to Mars has been “outstanding,” but the landing will be the hardest ever attempted. … Read more
Skywatch at Belmead on the James / Thomas Berry Educational Center. RAS will deploy astronomers and telescopes for the event and there will be an indoor introductory session prior to the observing session. This is an easily accessible dark sky location with plenty of parking adjacent to the observing site. Please contact Jim Browder at … Read more