Club Meeting Announcement for July 2017

The next meeting of the Huachuca Astronomy Club will be held on Friday, July 14th at 7 pm in the Community Room of the Student Union Building at Cochise College, 901 North Colombo Avenue, Sierra Vista, AZ 85635. Our speakers will be Dr. Emilio Falco and Alexandra Terry of the Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory (FLWO) on Mt. Hopkins. They will discuss the history of the FLWO and current research projects being performed at the observatory.

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June 2017 Nightfall Newsletter is now available

The June 2017 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

Club Meeting Announcement for June 2017

The next meeting of the Huachuca Astronomy Club will be held on Friday, June 9th at 7 pm in the Community Room of the Student Union Building at Cochise College, 901 North Colombo Avenue, Sierra Vista, AZ 85635. There will not be an outside speaker for this event. Instead, HAC member and NASA Solar System Ambassador, Ted Forte will provide background and updates on the long-running Cassini mission to Saturn.

May 2017 Nightfall Newsletter is now available

The May 2017 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.

Club Meeting Announcement for May 2017

The next meeting of the Huachuca Astronomy Club will be held on Friday, May 12th at 7 pm in the Community Room of the Student Union Building at Cochise College, 901 North Colombo Avenue, Sierra Vista, AZ 85635. There will not be an outside speaker for this event. Instead, the topic of discussion will be the upcoming solar eclipse.

On August 21, 2017 a solar eclipse, with the path of totality stretching across across the continental U.S., will occur. The presentation will discuss what causes an eclipse and how to safely view and photograph the event.

April 2017 Nightfall Newsletter is now available

The April 2017 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.

Club Meeting Announcement for April 2017

The next meeting of the Huachuca Astronomy Club will be held on Friday, April 14th at 7 pm in the Commons Area of the Library Building at Cochise College, 901 North Colombo Avenue, Sierra Vista, AZ 85635. The speaker will be Margaret Landis.

Margaret is a PhD candidate and National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow at the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory at the University of Arizona. She has a B.S. in Astronomy and Physics from Northern Arizona University. She works with planetary image data to characterize the surface age of the polar ice deposits on Mars and numerical models to describe ice stability on Ceres, and is a member of the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera and Dawn at Ceres science teams.

Abstract: The Dawn spacecraft has been in orbit around Ceres since March 2015, revolutionizing our understanding of the only dwarf planet in the inner solar system. This talk will focus on new discoveries and new mysteries from Dawn’s exploration of Ceres, including the anomalously bright areas on the surface.

March 2017 Nightfall Newsletter is now available

The March 2017 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.