The Central Arkansas Astronomical Society met Saturday afternoon for our yearly grounds maintenance party. We beat back the wilderness, piling up a good bonfire’s worth of brush and also assorted salvage materials from the corner of the West Observatory area. That salvage included some steel fencing and studs and other items. We […]

First, we have a work party scheduled for the afternoon to do maintenance on the property.  This time of year we always beat back the encroaching woods several feet back beyond the perimeter.  We also take stock of the state of the property to see what else might need to be done soon.  The property […]

CAAS members Sandy Morris, Pat Morris, Bill Sanders, Carl Freyaldenhoven, and Jim Dixon were at the CAAS site tonight (12/17/2007) to greet an enthusiastic group of students from Carver Magnet School.  The temperature was crisp and, as we watched, clouds rolled in from the Southwest making for diminishing returns as the evening worn on.  However, […]

The election was held in the 2007 Annual Meeting on 12/8/2007.
The results were:
Officers

President - John Reed
Vice-President - Don Ferren
Treasurer - Pat Morris
Secretary - Jim Dixon

Board Members

Allen Lee
Carl Freyaldenhoven
James Fisher
Don Lewis

Immediate Past President - Rocky Togni

The Annual Meeting, and more importantly food fest, will be held at the home of Jaclyn Roberts and Jason Elmore this year on December 8.
But eating is not all that we will be doing. There is the socializing too.  And, if we find the time we will elect officers and board members for next year.

The skies were clear for our regular monthly meeting on October 13 and as many set up scopes, they were greeted to a very thin new crescent moon to the southwest in the evening twilight. We adjourned to the meeting room at 7:00 pm where Thomas Baskins presented a program on Meteorite collecting. Thomas has […]

Bill Sanders, Donald Ferren, Danny Flippo, and Jim & Jack Dixon were at the site Thursday night ready to share our passion.  However, Carver never came.  Thanks to Bill’s forethought and Jim’s wristwatch we did see an awesome -8 magnitude Iridium flare the likes of which Jack had never seen.  I’m sure there was a […]

Please note the first event is just days away and before the next CAAS meeting.

    Oct. 11 Carver Magnet Star Party at CAAS.

    Nov. 8   Robinson Elementary. Chili supper/Star party. There.

    Nov. 12 Carver Magnet Star Party at CAAS.

    Dec. 10 rain date for Carver Magnet at CAAS.

We may have another […]

The latest edition of the CAAS newsletter is now available for download. Click here to get it. In this issue we have a new column, articles from the Astronomical League and the NASA Space Place, and much more.

CAAS joined the nice people at the AEC tonight (9/19/2007) for a special viewing of the new PBS special “Seeing in the Dark” by Timothy Ferris.  It appeared that about 40 members of the public joined us. Kind of disappointing turn out but these people did seem to be more interested than average.  The show […]