2020 Calendar

Join us at the Crow’s Nest Preserve for our monthly club meeting. For this round-table discussion of DSOs for the upcoming season we suggest bringing your charts, books on observing, iPad or alike, notebook.

Join us at the Crow’s Nest Preserve for our monthly club meeting.

Guest Speaker via Skype: Dave Tosteson of the Minnesota Astronomical Society (and a family physician), who proudly pushes the limits of what is visible. Recipient of the Lone Stargazer award at the Texas Star Party, author of approximately one hundred fifty articles in publications such as Sky & Telescope, The Reflector, Amateur Astronomy and Britain’s Webb Society Journal.

Topic:  How to Choose, Research and Prepare to Observe a Challenging and Rewarding Target

Specific objects that will be discussed:

-Edwin Hubble’s M31 V1, variable star

-Ultra Diffuse Galaxies (UDGs)

-The most massive and brightest Milky Way star cluster

-A very high redshift quasar

-Brown dwarfs

-Gravitationally lensed arcs

CANCELED

ZOOM invitation will be sent to all CAS members with a valid email address. For this round-table discussion of DSOs for the upcoming season we suggest you have ready your charts, books on observing, iPad or alike, notebook. Meeting is virtual via ZOOM and will not be at the Crows Nest.

Live music, wine and beer, marshmallow toasting, star gazing with CAS and other astronomy clubs, and sunset socializing at one of the most beautiful settings in all of Chester County. More information and registration link to follow in the Spring.

CAS members can join our monthly meeting via Zoom. Watch your email inbox for a Zoom Invitation. Rob C. will address our upcoming StarFest and how members can participate. Also,  Josh W. moderates discussion on finding new local dark sites and pros/cons of current dark sites.

This meeting will be via ZOOM and only be about 15-20 mins. It will provide everyone with important information about StarFest. We will not have our normal full length meeting this month as we prepare to fine tune the details for the event.

STARFEST 2020 WILL BE VIRTUAL and presented by the ChesMont Astronomical Society on You Tube. Rain or Shine.  Click on this link to the event on August 15 for full access.       Guest Speaker: Phil Harrington, author of “Touring the Universe Through Binoculars.” Plus,  ChesMont members will discuss what they are observing through their telescopes, highlighted by live images of the objects!!

For this round-table discussion of DSOs for the upcoming season we suggest bringing your charts, books on observing, iPad or alike, notebook.