Amateur Astronomy Club
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 …
Large Crowd attended Willard Clock Museum Lecture and Stargazing Event Read More »
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 …
Aldrich July Star Party finally happened this past Saturday Read More »
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 …
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 …
First visit to Aldrich Observatory by Treasure Valley Scouts Read More »
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 …
Lift-Off to Learning Program at Lunenburg Public Library Read More »
Club president Jim Zebrowski held a make a comet demonstration on Thursday June 22nd at the Lunenburg Public Library. Many families attended and their children took part in the interactive program. The kids were really engaged as they had many questions. See pictures below from the event.
Aldrich Astronomical Society members Jim Zebrowski, Bruce Card, and Kevin Boucher attend the Vendor portion of the Boy Scouts of America Heart of New England Council Roundtable Meeting. The meeting was meant to introduce scout leaders to vendors of interest to the scouts. Turnout was very good with over 100 scout leaders in attendance. The …
Aldrich attends BSA Heart of New England Council Roundtable Meeting Read More »
Well we missed our first scheduled Star Party of the year in April due to poor weather, and the first scheduled Star Party in May due to the same reason but last night the skies were clear. Even though the waxing moon was not perfect for deep sky stargazing, it was a good initial target …
There was a very nice Memorial Service held at Stellafane for former Aldrich member Jim Erickson who was also an active member at Stellafane for many years. The memorial event happened last Saturday May 20th at the Stellafane member meeting in Springfield Vermont. Aldrich President Jim Zebrowski attended the service along with Jim’s daughter and …
Memorial Service for Aldrich member Jim Erickson at Stellafane Read More »
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