Monthly meetings are held on the second Tuesday of each month at 7:30 PM online at this link

jbrowder

Michael Holland

by

Michael Holland, longtime associate of the Richmond Astronomical Society, passed away on February 27, 2025 at the age of 76. He was a US Navy veteran and served in the first gulf War. He was an artist, singer, musician, actor, teacher, world traveler, and astronomy enthusiast. He sang in several church choirs and played church … Read more

Observing Charts by Steve Bellavia

by

RAS member Steve Bellavia has created a set of excellent observing charts focusing on the Messier objects and the more popular NGC objects.  Each chart is printable and shows the more prominent objects with Telrad circles to help you find them in the sky with your finder scope. He has kindly made them available for … Read more

The Library Telescope Project

by

An Update from John Sokol (Editor’s note: The Library Telescope Program is a project that a number of astronomy clubs support. Participating clubs purchase and maintain simple telescopes that are donated to libraries. The scopes can be checked out as any other materials from the library. Our compliments to John on this very worthwhile endeavor! … Read more

A Venus Nighthawk

by

She’s Got It – an update from Josh Urban’s adventures on the farm and in the city. #212 By Josh Urban – Nov 18 Appearing in the Altavista Journal, etc: The Evening Star Howdy, folks, and welcome back to the show! Don’t you think the evening star has a nice ring to it? It used … Read more

A System of Binoviewing

by

by John C Raymond I’d like to share some of my ideas and opinions on binoviewing. What is a System of Binoviewing? An assembly of common observing equipment that’s powerful, portable, easy to use, effective, and fun to use. In my experience Binoviewers enhance the observation of  Targets of Excess Light (moon, safe solar,  and … Read more

Peter Tlusty’s Students to Compete in International NASA Challenge!

by

NASA recently selected 75 student teams to begin an engineering design challenge to build rovers that will compete next spring at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center near the agency’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Participating teams represent 35 colleges and universities, 38 high schools, and two middle schools from 20 states, Puerto … Read more

Pass Me a Wrench…

by

Letters from Josh (A weekly update from Josh Urban’s adventures on the farm and in the city. #204) Excerpted from a Letter from Josh as it appeared in the Altavista Journal. Howdy, folks, and welcome back to the show! The mountain is ripping pieces of clouds. Mom’s chickens do this with a kale leaf, which … Read more

Mysteries of Lyra

by

By John Raymond Lyra is a prominent and fascinating constellation that passes overhead for us in the mid-northern latitudes. Its visible most of the year. It has one of the brightest stars, Vega. The other bright stars are famous multiples: Epsilon, Zeta, Delta, Beta, Theta, and Eta. It has two bright Messier objects, planetary M57 … Read more