Amateur Astronomy Club

Updates

Sholan Farms Star Gazing and Rocket launch event well attended

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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Feedback from our members who attended Stellafane Convention

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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Large Crowd attended Willard Clock Museum Lecture and Stargazing Event

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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Rocket Day at Ecotarium

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.

Lift-Off to Learning Program at Lunenburg Public Library

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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