Starlight Astronomy Club Web Site

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Next Meeting:  Thursday, May 15, 7:00 PM,  Penn-Mont Academy, Hollidaysburg

This page is always under construction!

Welcome to the Starlight Astronomy Club web site, hosted by the Web Space Outlet in State College, Pa.

 

NOTICE: Due to numerous abuses, online applications are no longer being accepted!
To join, you may submit an application in person at the next meeting.
(If you insist, you may join online by paying the $100 Online Application Fee
per application submitted within the past year!)

Since Comet Holmes has now become a visual challenge, the old photos and finder charts have been moved to an archive page.

 

Public Sky Watch

  Friday, June 6, 2008 

8:30-11:00 pm
Canoe Creek State Park
(Rain Date: Saturday).

 

Plan your observing schedule around New and Full Moons

NEW: Download a monthly sky tour Podcast for your MP3 player

The address for the club's e-mail list-server is astroclub@alt3.com.

The club runs a Yahoo! chat group at http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/starlightastronomy/

Bill, one of out more active members, maintains a help page for the club.  It's address is
http://webpages.charter.net/paastroman/grouphelp.html

The Starlight Astronomy Club at their January 18, 2007 meeting.

Welcome to the Starlight Astronomy Club, central Pennsylvania's newest organization for amateur astronomers.  We are based in Altoona, Pennsylvania, but our members come from all of the surrounding counties.  You're welcome to join us, make suggestions and comments, and get involved as we continue to build the organization.  It's an exciting project, and there's nothing like getting involved while the club is still young.

Meetings are held monthly on the third Thursday of the month at Penn-Mont Academy in Hollidaysburg.  (See the schedule.)  Public sky watches are conducted on the Friday after the club meeting from April through November at Canoe Creek State Park.  (See the schedule.)

Anyone with an  interest in astronomy is invited to become active in the Starlight Astronomy Club.  Even if your interest is only casual, you'll find that we're a group which is open to beginners (since the majority of us are beginners).

One of the primary benefits of membership in the Starlight Astronomy Club is automatic membership in the Astronomical League.  The League is designed to be an association of affiliated clubs.  Individual members enjoy the benefits of a quarterly newsletter, excellent instructional programs, and opportunities to participate in conferences, symposiums, and expeditions.

Below, you will find a schedule of upcoming events, and on the following pages you'll find our current bylaws, brief instructions for subscribing to our list server, and information on getting  started in amateur astronomy.  You can also submit an application to join the club.  Many of the documents are works in progress.  Your contribution to the dialog is greatly desired.  We want you to be involved in an organization that you can be proud of.

Key Personnel:

Upcoming Events:

Subscribe to and monitor the e-mail list server for any announcements of observing plans

External Links:

SKY Online
Astronomical League
Heavens Above
Intellicast National Radar Map
Orion Telescope & Binocular Center

 

Discover the cosmos!
Visit the Astronomy Picture of the Day web site.

Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.

 

Visit the Altoona Clear Sky Chart web site
configured for Altoona, PA

Visitors:

Last Modified: Thursday, May 08, 2008 11:53 PM