Because of the upcoming holiday weekend, our first meeting of the 2016/2017 season will be on the third Saturday.
Time: Saturday, October 15, 7 p.m.
Place: Avonport, 475 Bluff Road
Speaker: Melody Hamilton
Topic: Searching the Deep Sky Gems and Challenges
Summary:
When one gazes up into a dark, moonless sky with unaided eyes, we see what ancient astronomers were familiar with….the Milky Way, fainter stars and a few “fuzzy” objects. With the use of our modern telescopes, amateur astronomers are able to distinguish one type of faint fuzzy from another. This is the challenge in the Deep Sky programs: finding, identifying, observing and recording these faint fuzzies.