SAS Members, Our scheduled observing session for tonight, 10/1 is on! Join us at Darling Hill Observatory in Tully (Exit 14 off Route 81). We should be on the field around 7:00 tonight. It will likely get down to the low 50’s or lower, and there’s likely to be some humidity adding to the chill in the air, so please dress appropriately. See you there!
Anthony Krishock
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All, I will be hosting a “Telescope clinic” this coming Tuesday, 9/28, from 7-8:30PM at Onondaga Free Library. I’ll be giving a short talk on the various kinds of telescopes available to the amateur astronomer along with providing some training on how best to use any telescopes that you bring in. I’ll have tools and cleaning equipment on hand so we’ll hopefully be able to tune up your telescope so you can get the most out of it! Registration is required. Please visit the link below for more information and to register for the event: https://onlibonondagafree.evanced.info/signup/EventDetails?EventId=10136&backTo=Calendar&startDate=2021/09/26
*** SAS Members*** Our observing session scheduled for Friday, 9/24 is on! Join us at Darling Hill Observatory in Tully (Exit 14 off of I-81 South). We should have about an hour and a half of dark skies after sunset before the waning gibbous moon rises. It will be chilly tonight, so please dress accordingly. Masks are required.
Traditional visual astronomy is an undoubtedly joyous thing. It’s those first looks at the cloud belts of Jupiter, the rings of Saturn and the stunning cores of globular clusters that hooked us on this hobby to begin with. If you have enough aperture (your telescope is big enough), you can even catch some “faint fuzzies” … galaxies. Unfortunately for us (and the interested public), those “fuzzies” are exactly that… featureless grey smudges that don’t resemble anything let alone galaxies. But alas, aperture is expensive, time consuming, difficult to set up and difficult to maintain and, before you realize it, your […]