The Richmond Astronomical Society will meet on February 14, 7:30 PM at the Science Museum of Virginia.  Please join us for the meeting and for dinner before the meeting at Arby’s across the street from the Museum. Be sure to read John Goss’ article on some great observing opportunities for amateur astronomers in 2012 in [...]

Masayuki Tachikawa was observing Jupiter early on the morning of August 21st (18:22 Universal Time on the 20th), when his video camera captured a 2-second-long flash on the planet’s disk.  Check out this article in Sky and Telescope. The video of the flash is at this link and below along with an image captured by [...]

Richmond Astronomical Society 729th Consecutive Meeting June  8, 2010 —– Jim Browder called our meeting to order in the Eureka room.  This meeting was going to have a different format – business first, the main presentation, and then after the break, the short talk. Greeting & Announcements – approximately 43 in attendance at the meeting. [...]