John Reed called the meeting to order at 7:20, the nice weather and good food enticed us to run late.  There were 25 members and visitors in attendance.
John told us about several upcoming start parties:

The Nebraska Star Party on July 25th (http://www.nebraskastarparty.org/)
The Texas Star Party on June 1 (http://www.texasstarparty.org/index1.html)
The All-America Star Party (date unknown).

Closer to […]

It was a cold and clear evening after a news making snowfall in March (yes, March) in Arkansas (yes, Arkansas).
President John Reed called the meeting to order at 7:10
17 members and guests were in attendance.
We welcomed new members John and Carolyn Pittman to their first meeting.  Welcome, John and Carolyn!
Two weeks ago, CAAS hosted a […]

CAAS was gifted with a mild clear evening Saturday night. John Reed called the meeting to order at 7 PM with the intention of keeping it short so we could get back out and play. There were 24 members and visitors in attendance by my count.
John brought the Pinnacle Mountain Master Naturalist series […]

After a delicious potluck meal, John Reed called the meeting to order at 7 PM.  There were 12 regular members and 3 visitors in attendance.

Welcome Jason, Samantha, and Dan.  We hope you enjoyed your visit and hope you will make CAAS a habit.

Earlier today we had a work party and board meeting, which was detailed […]

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 […]

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 […]

CAAS met Saturday evening September 8 with much clouds and threatening weather. This was appropriate to the topic though which was a presentation on Meteorology by Allen Lee. We had a delicious covered dish dinner with the highlight being a homemade squash casserole by Linda Sorrows. Thanks […]

President Rocky Togni called the meeting to order at approximately 7:10 p.m. About 16 members and guests were in attendance. We were so pleased to have Jim and Kathy Fisher with us, and hope they will return again soon!

The floor was then turned over to Kyle for his presentation entitled: “Using […]

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 […]