The Huachuca Astronomy Club will hold their March meeting in the Community Room of the Student Union Building, Cochise College Sierra Vista campus on March 18, 2016 at 7 PM.
Our speaker will be Maxwell Moe. Max received his PhD from Harvard University in 2015 and is currently a Post Doctoral Fellow at the University of Arizona’s Department of Astronomy and Steward Observatory. His presentation is titled “The Cosmic Tango of Binary Stars”.
The 2016 Youth Engineering & Science (YES) Fair was held at the Windemere Hotel & Convention Center in Sierra Vista on February 23-26, 2016. Students in grades 5 through 12 in Sulphur Springs Valley Electric Cooperative’s service area and schools in Bisbee, Douglas, Nogales, and Tombstone are elegible to enter. HAC member Bob Gent volunteered to help judge the event and was especially interested in projects that involved Space Science. This year there were 2 projects that qualified in that area.
Congratulations to Dennis Yusufoff and Camden Miller for their outstanding project on Mars botany (photo below). Among other awards, they each won a $50 check from the Huachuca Astronomy Club and certificates of achievement. They also won one-year family memberships in the Huachuca Astronomy Club.
Congratulations, also, to Miriam Allen of Joyce Clark Middle School (photos of project and award below). Among other awards, she won the 2016 awards from the Huachuca Astronomy Club and the Planetary Science Institute. She completed an excellent project on star brightness vs distance (see photos below). She won a $50 check from HAC, certificates of achievement from HAC and PSI, a PSI backpack, a signed book about Mars, a PSI hat, and a PSI 32GB flash drive. She also won a one-year family membership in the Huachuca Astronomy Club.
The February 2016 edition of the Huachuca Astronomy Club newsletter, Nightfall, is now available for download. Submissions for next month’s issue can be sent to , our Nightfall editor.
The Huachuca Astronomy Club will hold their February meeting in the Community Room of the Student Union Building, Cochise College Sierra Vista campus on February 19, 2016 at 7 PM.
Our speaker will be HAC member Tom Kaye.
Tom is an advanced amateur astronomer that moved from Chicago to Sierra Vista to take advantage of the clear skies. He runs a wide field telescope nightly in search of exoplanets and records data on other unusual stellar targets. He is also the caretaker of the famous Junk Bond Observatory 32” telescope one of the largest in southern Arizona. His projects can be seen at www.spectrashift.com
His talk is titled: White Dwarf Eats Asteroids for LunchContinue reading
The HAC website now has a new area under ‘Resources‘ where we will be adding content regarding all manner of light pollution issues. Bob Gent has already penned a great article drawing on his prior experience as a past president of the International Dark-Sky Association. Please give it a read and pass the link along to your friends and neighbors. We welcome all contributions to our Resources page, no matter which astronomy topic you wish to address.
The January 2016 edition of the Huachuca Astronomy Club newsletter, Nightfall, is now available for download. Submissions for next month’s issue can be sent to , our Nightfall editor.
The Huachuca Astronomy Club will hold their January meeting in the Community Room of the Student Union Building, Cochise College Sierra Vista campus on January 15, 2016 at 7 PM. Our speaker will be Danielle Adams, a PhD student at the University of Arizona. The meeting is FREE and open to the public.
Danielle is a PhD student and 2015-2016 NASA Space Grant fellow at the University of Arizona’s School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies and the School of Anthropology. Fluent in Arabic, she is translating 1200-year-old Arabic astronomical texts that have never before been accessible to English-speaking scholars. She lived in the Middle East for 3 years and has been an amateur astronomer and astrophotographer for more than 30 years. She has spoken on related topics at international conferences around the world.Continue reading
The December 2015 edition of the Huachuca Astronomy Club newsletter, Nightfall, is now available for download. Submissions for next month’s issue can be sent to , our Nightfall editor.
The November 2015 edition of the Huachuca Astronomy Club newsletter, Nightfall, is now available for download. Submissions for next month’s issue can be sent to , our Nightfall editor.
The October edition of the Huachuca Astronomy Club newsletter, Nightfall, is now available for download. Submissions for next months issue can be sent to , our Nightfall editor.