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.
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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.
Club Meeting Announcement for March 2017
The next meeting of the Huachuca Astronomy Club will be held on Friday, March 10th at 7 pm in the Community Room of the Student Union Building at Cochise College, 901 North Colombo Avenue, Sierra Vista, AZ 85635. The speaker will be Dr. Tim Hunter.
Dr. Hunter has been an amateur astronomer since 1950. He built and operates the Grasslands Observatory near Sonoita, Arizona. In 1987, Dr. Tim Hunter and Dr. David Crawford founded the International Dark-Sky Association, Inc., to promote quality outdoor lighting and combat the effects of light pollution. He is the chair of the board of trustees for the Planetary Science Institute and past president of the board of directors of the International Dark-Sky Association. In addition, he is a retired professor and former chief of the Department of Radiology in the College of Medicine at the University of Arizona. He earned an M.D. degree from Northwestern University in 1968. He also received a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics from the University of Arizona, and he recently completed a Masters degree in Astronomy from Swinburne University. Dr Hunter holds a number of prestigious awards including to 2003 Astronomical League Award.
Dr. Hunter will discuss Barnard objects. The astronomer Edward Emerson Barnard compiled a list of dark nebulae known as the Barnard Catalogue of Dark Markings in the Sky. The 1919 version of the catalogue was published in the Astronomical Journal, and it listed 182 nebulae, and by the 1927 version, it listed 369 dark objects. One of the more well known dark objects is Barnard 33, also known as the Horsehead Nebula.
February 2017 Nightfall Newsletter is now available
The February 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 February 2017
The next meeting of the Huachuca Astronomy Club will be held on Friday, February 10th 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 former HAC member Glenn Minuth.
Glenn’s talk is entitled “An Update on SOFIA: NASA’s Airborne Telescope”.
January 2017 Nightfall Newsletter is now available
The January 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.