Randy Tatum receiving the Walter H. Haas Award for Excellence in Solar System Observing at ALCON 2016. Image courtesy of Ken Wilson.

Steve Conard presenting at the December 2016 RAS meeting.  Steve was the Lead Engineer on development of the LORRI Imager for the New Horizons Pluto Mission.

Ted Bethune presenting at a monthly RAS meeting on fallen astronauts.

Tyler Hutchison with a customer at the Science Museum skywatch on February 17, 2017.

Dwight Talley at the debut exhibition of his astrophotography and other photography at the Albuquerque Photographer’s gallery in Albuquerque, New Mexico in February 2017.  More of his work is at https://www.dwight-talley.com/.

Tyler Hutchison at his presentation on the “Effect of Altitude on Quantity of Muon Particles Detected in Cloud Chamber” at the Junior Science and Humanities Symposia at James Madison University in March 2017.

Setting up for a skywatch at James River State Park in April 2017 (image courtesy of John Raymond).

John Raymond sporting his Oxygen III jersey with his Herschel-wedge-equipped solar viewing scope deployed for a visitor at the Northeast Astronomy Forum (NEAF) at Suffern, NY in April 2017.

Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe dedicating the Dark Sky Observation Area at Staunton River State Park on April 16, 2017 with members of the Chapel Hill Observational and Astronomical Society and Raleigh Astronomical Society.  RAS members were there to help with a special skywatch for the Governor, his family and staff.  Video of the event here.

RAS astronomers at the dedication ceremony for the Dark Sky Observation Area at Staunton River State Park in April of 2017 – (left to right) Jim Langley, Pernel Johnson, John Raymond, Jim Browder and Ray Moody (not pictured). Video of the event here.