February Meeting Date Change
Our February meeting date has been changed from Feb 6 to Feb 13 to accommodate our speaker’s schedule. The meeting will be held in room A102, Cochise College downtown campus on Friday February 13 at 7 p.m. The speaker is HAC member Michael Borland. Dr. Borland will discuss narrow-band solar imaging.
Why Do Astronomy Outreach?
Zane Landers presented a talk at the January 2023 HAC meeting about why we should endeavor to support and participate in astronomy outreach events. The talk has been recorded and is available on YouTube.
Evening Stargazing: Tonight’s Sky and What’s Up?
The NASA Museum Alliance has provided some star gazing videos that may be of interest to our members. These are short videos that cover what is in the night sky for the current month.
S&T Astronomy News
- This Week's Sky at a Glance, March 13 – 22
- Super-Bright Supernovae Are Magnetar Birth Cries
- The Solar Cycle Leaves Its Fingerprint on the Sun’s Interior
- Asteroid Didymos's Heliocentric Orbit Altered by Impact on its Moon
- Dwarf Galaxy Has "Too Many" Satellites
- Lunar Impact from Asteroid 2024 YR4 Ruled Out
- This Week's Sky at a Glance, March 6 – 15
S&T Night Sky News
- This Week's Sky at a Glance, March 13 – 22
- This Week's Sky at a Glance, March 6 – 15
- Dawn Delight: Total Lunar Eclipse on March 3rd
- This Week's Sky at a Glance, February 27 – March 8
- This Week's Sky at a Glance, February 20 – March 1
- Watch the Young Moon Greet Mercury at Sunset
- Comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann Bursts as "Ice Volcano" Erupts
Universe Today
- A Glorious Spiral of Star Formation
- Why Are Interstellar Comets So Weird? Part 4: We Finally Turned On the Porch Lights
- ESA's Mars orbiters watch solar superstorm hit the Red Planet
- This Isn't Just Another Rocky World Orbiting a Red Dwarf. This One's Special
- Only A Supercomputer Can Understand the Extremely Energetic Chaos of a Neutron Star Merger
NASA Breaking News
- Volunteers Find Oddly High Solar Flare Rates
- Extra Extra! Extra Data Stream Added to the Daily Minor Planet!
- NASA Selects Finalists in Student Aircraft Maintenance Competition
- NASA Armstrong to Host Partnership Days April 15-16
- USBR Crack the Case Challenge
- NASA Volunteers Study Biofilm Adaptability in Space
- USBR Halt the Hitchhiker: Invasive Species Challenge
Science Daily
- Our Sun may have escaped the Milky Way’s center with thousands of twin stars
- A black hole and neutron star just collided in a strange oval orbit
- Chickpeas could become the first food grown on the Moon
- Astronomers think they just witnessed two planets colliding
- Strange chirping supernova confirms long-debated magnetar theory
- Scientists may have discovered a brand-new mineral on Mars
- Cosmic voids look empty but they may be tearing the universe apart








