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 […]