Aldrich member Bella Boyle was the winning bidder of the Celestron SE 8 and the eyepiece kit on the recent Aldrich auction. Here is a picture taken by Facilities Manager Kim Lemerise at the Observatory when Bella picked up her winnings.

Aldrich members Jim Zebrowski and Matt O’Malley attended the Leominster Library Program at Sholan Farms on Sept 6th. This event was sponsored by the Leominster Cultural Council. Everyone seems like they were having a good time.  A lot of kids had fun with launching rockets before it got dark enough to view Saturn, M13, M51 …

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We had a good number of Aldrich Members attend this past weekends Stellafane Convention. Based on feedback received we believe 5 – 6 Aldrich members made it to the convention this year. The convention happens every year around late July/early August when there is a new Moon. This year Stellafane was celebrating its 100th year …

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Aldrich opened a month long exhibit for the Astrophotography group on Tuesday August 1st with a lecture by Kevin Boucher on the challenges of the hobby and how far we have come. There were a good number of questions asked after the lecture was done. We had a good number of Aldrich members that showed …

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A large crowd registered and attended the James Webb Space Telescope lecture and Stargazing event last night at the Willard Clock Museum. A big thank you to both the Willard Clock Museum staff and the keynote speaker M.J. Johnson for the invite to Aldrich to help with this event. To all indications after talking to …

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Well we had a number of rainy days lately including the original scheduled date this month for our monthly Star Party. We had a lot of NEW members join us this past Saturday and were enthusiastic to look through the many Aldrich and member owned telescopes. You will notice some of the pictures looked smokey …

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Aldrich Astronomical Society was invited to the Worcester Ecotarium’s Rocket Day this past Saturday. Aldrich Members Jim Zebrowski and Bruce Card manned a busy display table showing all kinds of interesting hands on stuff including meteorites, STEM related displays, and rocket displays.  Below are a few pictures from the event.

As part of Aldrich’s on-going engagement with Treasure Valley there is a scheduled Tuesday night Star Party with Aldrich volunteers to train the scouts about the constellations, and show them deep sky objects such as Nebula, Globular clusters, binary stars, etc. This past Tuesday was postponed to Wednesday night this week due to weather. Fortunately …

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On the evening of Wednesday 7/5 the scouts and their scout leaders had their first road trip to the Aldrich Observatory. Aldrich members Jim Zebrowski, Kim Lemerise, Bruce Card, and Kevin Boucher gave the approximately 35 scouts and their leaders a tour of the facilities along with a short interactive STEM presentation. Below are a …

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Aldrich President Jim Zebrowski presented the Lift-off to Learning program at the field behind the Lunenburg Library on Thursday June 29th. He used a combination of stomp rockets, air burst rockets and screaming rocket balloons to talk about Newton’s Laws of Motion especially the Action-reaction principle of the third law of motion. He introduced everyone to our local …

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