SpaceX (Space Exploration Technologies, Inc.) had a spectacular launch and landing of it’s next generation rocket called Starship last evening around 6:47 PM CST at their Boca Chica Texas manufacturing and test facility. The rocket launched to an altitude of approximately 500 feet before landing again on a different landing pad nearby. The rocket was […]
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Comet Neowise captured by many club members
Below are a bunch of amazing shots captured in various central Massachusetts locations of Comet Neowise (C/2020 F3). Comet Neowise became a naked eye comet within last few weeks and now is starting to fade even though it was closest to us on July 23rd. It is still a beautiful site to see through binoculars […]
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Club President Jim Zebrowski “Leadership and work skills” video selected for MWCC TRiO Program
Aldrich Club President Jim Zebrowski created a video on Leadership and Work skills that was selected by students at Mount Wachusett Community College for their remote summer camp which is part of the TRiO program MWCC provides. The TRIO Student Support Services is a federally funded program, one of roughly 1,900 TRIO programs throughout the […]
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Bob Peloquin a long time Aldrich Member has recently passed away
It’s with great sadness we announce the passing of our friend and longtime Aldrich member Bob Peloquin, Jr.. Bob has been instrumental in maintaining our Oakham Observatory site and helping with plans for the new Aldrich Community Outreach Center. Bob was also responsible for maintaining all of our equipment and for all of the structures […]
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Aldrich Member Melanie Meadors awarded NASA Space Grant
Aldrich member Melanie Meadors was recently awarded a grant from the Massachusetts Space Grant Consortium,which was established by NASA under the National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program created by Congress in 1987. The purpose of these grants is to further education in space science and space engineering opportunities. Melanie is currently a geography/GIS major […]
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Aldrich selected to promote Hubble 30th Anniversary Photo
In January Aldrich Astronomical Society, Inc. filed an application with the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) to win one of the limited number of 30th anniversary Hubble Space Telescope banners with a special image taken by Hubble that had never been seen in public. On February 5, 2020, Aldrich Astronomical Society, Inc. received an e-mail […]
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Aldrich member Kevin Boucher is accepted into NASA TESS TFOP program
Well let’s first explain what all these NASA acronyms mean. TESS means Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite. TESS will survey 200,000 of the brightest stars near the sun to search for transiting exoplanets. TESS launched on April 18, 2018, aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. TFOP means TESS Follow-up Observing Program. Specifically Kevin was accepted into […]
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Observing Tips
- This Week's Sky at a Glance, September 18 – 26 September 18, 2020Jupiter and Saturn continue shining nearly level in the south at dusk. Meanwhile, the stars show the changing of the seasons: Just after nightfall, Cassiopeia has climbed higher in the northeast than the Big Dipper has sunk in the northwest. The post This Week's Sky at a Glance, September 18 – 26 appeared first on […]Alan MacRobert
- This Week's Sky at a Glance, September 11 – 19 September 11, 2020Vega passes the zenith in late twilight. Vega is bigger, hotter, and 50 times brighter than our Sun. But at a distance of 25 light-years, it's 1.6 million times farther away. Jupiter and Saturn still dominate the south at dusk. And fiery Mars, close and almost Jupiter-bright, rises in the east around the end of […]Alan MacRobert