Amateur Astronomy Club
Aldrich members Jim Zebrowski, Bruce Card, Dino Tata, Michael Mackiewicz, and Kevin Boucher manned a table at the annual WPI event about science and technology called TouchTomorrow which was held on Saturday April 2nd. The event is usually held at WPI but this year because of COVID concerns with students on campus they decided to …
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Following the completion of critical mirror alignment steps, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope team expects that Webb’s optical performance will be able to meet or exceed the science goals the observatory was built to achieve. On March 11, the Webb team completed the stage of alignment known as “fine phasing.” At this key stage in …
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On the evening of Saturday February 27th Aldrich club president Jim Zebrowski provided a talk on the James Webb Space Telescope at West Lodge in Paxton. The program started outdoors with the club 6″ Dobsonian showing off various targets in the night sky including the Orion Nebula. Approximately 20-25 parents and scouts attended the event …
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Below is the link to the NASA James Webb Space Telescope status page that will provide the current location of the Telescope in relation to both Earth and the final destination at the Lagrange 2 site. In addition, this link will provide the current status of the various important deployment steps that the telescope needs …
Aldrich members Jim Zebrowski and Dino Tata manned a table at the Leominster/Fitchburg Boy and Girls Club James Webb event this past weekend. Around 35 kids joined us at our table to engage in the hands on experiments and look at handouts available for them to take home. James Webb subject matter expert Rodolfo Montez …
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Club president and NASA Solar System Ambassador Jim Zebrowski gave a well received presentation on the James Webb Space Telescope on Thursday Nov 5th at the Lunenburg Public Library. The 12 library patrons that attended were very captured by the information presented. The lecture was presented in the same room that the Aldrich Astrophotography exhibit …
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Club president Jim Zebrowski presented a talk on the James Webb Space Telescope Wednesday night (11/3) at the Lucius Beebe Memorial Library in front of 13 enthusiastic patrons. There were many questions asked both during the talk and afterwards. A number of patrons and library staff joined Jim in the staff parking area after the …
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Aldrich President Jim Zebrowski traveled to three Concord schools last week to teach some basic astronomy concepts to the kids using various outreach tools including telescopes. The three schools include Willard Elementary, Thoreau Elementary, and Alcott Elementary. The kids were very enthusiastic at all the schools we had programs at. They all especially loved looking …
Aldrich brings Astronomy to three Concord Elementary Schools Read More »
Aldrich members Len DiPinto, Bruce Card, Thomas Lucia, Marsha Wilcox, and Kevin Boucher setup the Astrophotography exhibit this Saturday (10/9) at the Lunenburg Public Library before the opening date of October 12th. The exhibit will be open to the public from October 12th until November 18th. Aldrich member Jim Zebrowski will be giving a lecture …
Pictures for Worcester Public Library Hubble presentation on Saturday October 02, 2021 – good turnout with a family taking out the library telescope right after the talk! Success with 20 patrons attending!
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