John Martin

Hello all! Just seeing if there is any interest in collaborating with the 2025 Astronomical League observing challenge?

From the Astronomical League:

The Observing Program Division of the Astronomical League is excited to offer a slightly different Special Observing Challenge for 2025.  Details are contained on the attached flyer and all the…[Read more]

I’ve been working on a personal project that some of you might be interested in. And I am very interested in feedback from you about improvements or issues that you might encounter.

Background – Before doing an outreach event, I like to create an agenda or itinerary of objects to look for with the group. I used to do this “manually”, but thought…[Read more]

I attended an exoplanet lecture yesterday put on for the Solar System Ambassadors about the latest exoplanet findings and part of this lecture touched on a topic that might be of interest to some of you. I mention this because the presenter (Rob Zellem) is doing a deep dive into this topic at an upcoming Night Sky Network on Feb 23rd that we are…[Read more]

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Hello all! I’m not sure why I didn’t think to post this as a discussion on the forum before (Thanks, John A!)

We are planning for the Spring Astronomy Day on May 15, 2021 @ 9:00 pm – 11:00 pm  at Root River Park.

Public Sky Observing 2021-05/15 – Astronomy Day

Mike and I met at Root River today and looked at th…[Read more]

Any suggestions for some camping locations within a few hours of here that are good for observing?  Maybe some of you know of some spots that you have tried and liked or tried and disliked? thanks!