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August 3 Meeting: Home observatories.
Are you thinking about building your own observatory. Our featured presentation will address cost effective and affordable ways of building a personal observatory as well as various designs as well as steps involved with actual building an observatory. The public is welcome to this and all monthly BMAA meetings; you don’t
July 6th 2016 BMAA Monthly Meeting – Getting the most out of your telescope!
Join us for a meeting to help you understand your telescope and how to get the best use of it. We’ll review types of telescope and mount designs and will have stations set up to review the use of GoTo and
StarWatch at Northampton Park Review
After a 1 day postponement due to weather, we had a very nice gathering of starwatchers and astronomers on Friday June 17th 2016 at Northampton Park in Richboro, PA. Our main targets for the night were also the first to pop out
June 1: Deep sky visual observing
Would you like to improve and challenge your visual observing skills? Our June 1 meeting will focus on techniques and practical aspects of deep sky observing; locating celestial showcase objects and so forth. The public is welcome to this and all monthly BMAA meetings; you don’t need to be a
Saturn will be as big as the Moon on June 1st 2016. . . . . . . . . . . . Don’t miss it!
Image by Lee Zager
This headline has crossed my inbox a few times in recent weeks from folks excited to see Saturn suddenly fill up our nighttime sky. People wonder why we’re not planning major observing events