Amateur Astro Announcements

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Darling Hill Will OPEN Tonight For A Group/Public Viewing Session – Saturday, June 23 – 9:00 p.m.

Greetings fellow astrophiles, The SAS is hosting a group at Darling Hill tonight and are opening the grounds to a general Public Viewing Session. The skies look far more promising tonight than last night and several board and scope-owning members have already planned on attending. The grounds should be open by 8:00 p.m. for those interested in setting up early and exploring the Observatory Grounds. We hope you can join us!

Darling Hill Will OPEN Tonight For Member Project Sessions – Friday, June 22 – 9:00 p.m.

Greetings fellow astrophiles, The Night Sky predictions for tonight look promising and some members have already decided to get some deep space observing in, so Darling Hill will open tonight near sunset. As mentioned previously, the public is invited to Member Project Sessions. That said, these are not typical Public Viewing sessions where tours and pick-hits of the evening are had, but instead are for dedicated observing.

Darling Hill Will OPEN Tonight For Public Viewing – Friday, June 15 – 8:30 p.m.

Greetings fellow astrophiles! The clear skies predicted for tonight allow for an atypically early posting about our opening for Public Viewing. The southern skies belong to Saturn and Mars tonight, with the great band of the Milky Way rising from the East before midnight. And, for those attending the Cherry Springs Star Party this weekend in PA, Ryan Goodson and I (Damian) will be there with scopes at the ready. For those interested in coordinating with the rest of the Syracuse contingent, drop an email to [email protected] or call 559-4737 (with the Syracuse Area code). We hope you can join […]

The MOST And SAS Host A Transit Of Venus Observing Session (And More!) 5 June 2012, 6:00 p.m.

Greetings fellow asrtrophiles, UPDATES WILL FOLLOW. STAY TUNED! I am pleased to announce that the SAS is collaborating with the MOST (Museum of Science and Technology, www.most.org) and is hosting the outside observing session for the Transit of Venus/SUN-EARTH DAY: SHADOWS OF THE SUN Session this June 5th! The indoor MOST session is scheduled for 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. and includes a live NASA Feed of the transit from Hawaii (which will be our fall-back location if the Syracuse skies do not permit observing). The SAS scopes will be set up until sunset (or until buildings obscure our view […]