Observing Announcements

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Moon night is a “go”!

***SAS Members *** The weather looks good for our event “Moon, Mars & More” scheduled for 5/21! We’ll get started right at sunset. Masks are optional, but we will ask that you sign our contact tracing form when you arrive. Feel free to bring a pair of binoculars or your own telescope. A Lawn chair and perhaps some bug spray might be useful, too.   See you on the hill!    

Observing session cancelled for 5/7

***SAS Members ***   The weather isn’t going to cooperate with our plans at Darling Hill Observatory tonight, so we’re going to cancel our observing session scheduled for tonight, 5/7/21 and reschedule it for Saturday night, 5/8. The weather looks better then.     See you on the hill!

Viewing the annular eclipse from Central New York

If the sky is clear the morning of June 10th, 2021, we will be able to see a partial annular eclipse at sunrise. An annular eclipse occurs when the Moon is further from the Sun and instead of covering the Sun, it leaves a visible annular ring. In North America, we’d have to go to Canada to see the totality. Here in CNY, we can see a partial annular eclipse. Sunrise is 5:30 am and you will need a clear view of the horizon, which complicates  matters. DHO is out because we don’t have a clear line of sight. Oneida […]