Nice May night
RAC outreach program continues already the third year. Public observing is about once a month after dusk, when Moon is in about the first quarter. It’s mostly conducted from the…
Total Lunar Eclipse on Sunday January 20
Rochester Astronomy Club is planing public observing event from 9 PM at History Center of Olmstead County, see http://rochesterskies.org/event/total-lunar-eclipse-observing-2019-01-20/ The first full moon of 2019 will be a great opportunity for…
Earthrise from Apollo 8
In December of 1968, the crew of Apollo 8 became the first people to leave our planet and travel to another body in space, to the Moon. Crew members Frank…
Cometary indulgement by end of 2018
Updated 12/10,11/17. About four years ago we could observe by naked eye comet C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy). This year in December, we expect to see periodic comet 46P/Wirtanen. Now, we have…
Galileoscopes in Rochester
Night Sky Network invited member clubs with courtesy of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific to online workshop From Pinholes to Space Telescopes: How Telescopes Work from from September 24 to November 9…
NASA iTech in Rochester
Post updated, see below. — On Friday November 9 at 6 PM will speak in Rochester Kira Blackwell from NASA. The program “NASA iTech: An innovative way to work with…
Comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner
Would you like to see a comet? Now, in September 2018 is pretty good chance to see comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner by small telescope or even by binocular. Periodic comet 21P can be…
Smoky Mars
On Friday August 17th I was driving to the Watson Soccer fields, listening to the weather forecast on radio. They said “patchy smoke”, and I could not understand, what it…
Monthly Outreach
In Summer 2016 Mike Carlin and myself, we decided to organize public observing on monthly basis. The first event took place at Peace Plaza, whre joined us as well Jack….
Mercury in front of Planetarium
On Thursday March 22nd, 2018 there was a class at Mayo High School Planetarium ending at 8 PM. Three members of the Rochester Astronomy Club – Jeff, John & Josef…