Click May 2007 Observer to download the May issue of The Observer (.pdf format). This month’s issue features a recap of Astronomy Day, observatory development, club news and information, as well as upcoming events. Approximately 2 MB download.

Crystal clear skies greeted 175+ visitors who came out for this year’s Astronomy Day event at Pinnacle Mountain State Park — the only clouds present were inside the Wilson cloud chamber, which Carl Freyaldenhoven set up to demonstrate cosmic rays!
Park staff and CAAS members welcomed a steady stream of […]

by Patrick L. Barry
During the summer and fall of 2006, U.S. Coast Guard planes flew over the North Pacific in search of illegal, unlicensed, and unregulated fishing boats. It was a tricky operation—in part because low clouds often block the pilots’ view of anything floating on the ocean surface below.
To assist in these efforts, they […]

On April 16, we met the school group at CAAS at 7:30.  Sandy and Pat Morris, Don Ferren, Bill Sanders, Carl Freyaldenhoven, and Jim Dixon were there. The school group consisted of one teacher and 6 to 8 students. It was still daylight so we had a chance to show them how telescopes work while […]

Rocky Togni called the meeting to order at 7 PM.  Due to the dreary weather there were only 9 members in attendance.

To warm up the audience, John gave a demo of Stellarium (www.stellarium.org), a freeware planetarium program.  We’re not sure how many objects are in its database but it appeared to make a first rate […]

Rocky Togni called the meeting to order at 5 PM.  Rocky, Don Ferren, Pat Morris, Sandy Morris, John Reed, Carl Freyaldenhoven, and Jim Dixon were in attendance.

The major topic of discussion was a proposed storage building for tools so that those tools could be moved out of the East Observatory.  John brought a list of […]

CAAS and Pinnacle Mountain State Park join hands to bring you an introduction to the wonderful world of astronomy! CAAS will be at the Pinnacle Mountain Visitor Center from 2-10 p.m. this Saturday, April 21. Come on out and meet the club, check out different types of telescopes and equipment, and learn more about this […]

[ April 16, 2007; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] The Episcopal Collegiate School will visit CAAS April 16 starting at about 7:30 PM.  If you can attend, please do. 

Hello, Friends!You are invited to click HERE to download the April issue of The Observer. This month’s issue features the Lunar Eclipse of March 3, the upcoming Lyrid meteor shower, personal stories of observing and enjoying astronomy, and notes about the upcoming Astronomy Day activity. This issue has a lot of […]

The International Occultation Timing Association (IOTA) has just released a new book on Occultations: ”Chasing the Shadow:The IOTA Occultation Observer’s Manual“.   Its free, online and ready for downloading.

Written by IOTA’s most experienced astronomers, this is the only book you’ll need for occultation observations by the Moon, by asteroids and other solar system […]