Richmond Astronomical Society

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Moon and Mars converge

Jun 17th, 2010 | By | Category: Events

If you go outside tonight (June 17), or the next few nights, you’ll see the Moon very close to Mars, and moving toward Saturn. Here’ the view on June 16. As the nights go by, the Moon will move to the left.



Shore Leave 32

May 26th, 2010 | By | Category: Events

This is a science fiction convention that I’ve been trying to get to for about three years. I think this is the year I’m actually going to make it. If you’re a Battlestar Galactica fan, the guests this year are going to make you delirious. We’re less than two months away from Shore Leave 32, so [...]



Yuri’s night at the Westover Hills Library

Apr 11th, 2010 | By | Category: Blog, Events

RAS had three telescopes at the Westover Hills Library last night, to help them celebrate Yuri’s Night-an annual worldwide party to celebrate Yuri Gagarin’s first flight into space–as well as to promote space exploration. The library highlighted many books on astronomy and space celebration, and held events for the younger kids to celebrate the night. [...]



RAS and the 2010 Metro Richmond Science Fair

Apr 11th, 2010 | By | Category: Blog, Events

RAS tries to motivate students to learn about astronomy in several different ways. In addition to holding many skywatches with schools and scouting groups, we also hand out money at one of the bigger science fairs: The Metro Richmond Science Fair. This fair draws students from the greater Richmond area, and usually ends up with [...]



Robot kids invade

Mar 20th, 2010 | By | Category: Blog, Events

Wow, we got quite a bonus at the Science Museum last night. At the beginning of our monthly skywatch, we might see a crowd of 30 or 40 people gathered around the Kugel, waiting for us to set up our telescopes. But, as I pulled up to the entrance last night, I saw a group [...]



A deal on the Ottewell Calendar?

Dec 22nd, 2009 | By | Category: Blog, Events

If you ‘re not familiar with the Ottewell Calendar, this may be a good way to get introduced to it. For those who are not faimiliar with this treasure, it’s a large (11 x 15 inches) paperbook compilation of information about sky events for the coming year.



Leonid Meteor Shower 2009

Nov 15th, 2009 | By | Category: Events

The year’s show should be exceptional, at 30 to 300 per hour. Look between 2 and 4 am (Tues. morning).



Road trip–Hands On Optics

Nov 1st, 2009 | By | Category: Events

The store Every year, Hands On Optics, hosts The Eastern Astronomy Show. Several RAS members, like myself, John Raymond, and Bill Jeffries, have gone in the past and liked it, so John organized a road trip for the 2009 event (Saturday, Oct. 31). Joining John and me, were Bill Jeffries, Dave Walton, Tim Streagle, and [...]



Email list

Oct 24th, 2009 | By | Category: EmailList


Twitter feed

Oct 20th, 2009 | By | Category: Blog, Events

I post stuff periodically on the club’s Twitter site, richastrova. Up to this point, you had to have a Twitter account to see those postings, but now we’ve made those “tweets” available from the club’s web page. If you go to the web site, and page down, looking in the right hand column, you’ll see [...]