2020 Calendar
This page shows all events for the 2020 year. Click on any event for more information.
january 2020
12jan7:00 pm- 9:00 pmCAS Meeting - Equipment Show and Tell.
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(Sunday) 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
february 2020
9feb7:00 pm- 9:00 amCAS Meeting - DSO Roundtable - Dedicated Serious Observers discussion
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Join us at the Crow's
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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.
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(Sunday) 7:00 pm - 9:00 am
march 2020
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Join us at the Crow's
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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
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(Sunday) 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
april 2020
may 2020
10may7:00 pm- 9:00 pmCAS Meeting via ZOOM - DSO Roundtable - Dedicated Serious Observers discussion
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ZOOM invitation will be sent
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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.
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(Sunday) 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
june 2020
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(Sunday) 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
july 2020
10jul7:00 pm- 10:00 pmEvent CancelledFriday Night Lights at the ChesLen Preserve
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Live music, wine and beer,
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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.
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(Friday) 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm DST
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ChesLen Preserve
1199 Cannery Road Coatesville, PA
august 2020
2aug7:00 pm- 9:00 pmCAS Meeting - DSO Roundtable - Dedicated Serious Observers discussion
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For this round-table discussion of DSOs for the upcoming season we suggest bringing your charts, books on observing, iPad or alike, notebook.
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For this round-table discussion of DSOs for the upcoming season we suggest bringing your charts, books on observing, iPad or alike, notebook.
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(Sunday) 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
15aug5:30 pm- 11:00 pmStarFest 2020
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Our largest star party of
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Our largest star party of the year, and still FREE, held in the Hopewell Big Woods, the last large, unbroken forest left in southeastern Pennsylvania. Food vendor will be on site but feel free to bring a picnic setting, lawn chairs and a blanket, listen to talks about astronomy at this kid friendly event and then look through many different telescopes. Rain/Cloud date 8/16; Back-up weekend 8/22-23.
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(Saturday) 5:30 pm - 11:00 pm
october 2020
november 2020
1nov7:00 pm- 9:00 pmCAS Meeting - DSO Roundtable - Dedicated Serious Observers discussion
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For this round-table discussion of DSOs for the upcoming season we suggest bringing your charts, books on observing, iPad or alike, notebook.
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For this round-table discussion of DSOs for the upcoming season we suggest bringing your charts, books on observing, iPad or alike, notebook.
Time
(Sunday) 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
december 2020