University of Miami Astronomy Club



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About Us...

The University of Miami Astronomy Club is an organization based out of the University of Miami which hosts meetings once a week, Tuesday from 8:00pm - 10:00pm, during the Fall and Spring semesters to the public for observatory use and enlightening young minds on current astronomical news and research.

The astronomy club uses the facilities of the Nicholas Copernicus Observatory which is located on the roof of the Ungar Computer Center. The Copernicus Observatory was built in 1984 with funds donated by the Polish-American Club of Miami.

The Nicholas Copernicus Observatory is open to the public and is a non-profit student organization, donations are always welcome and can be left at the Observatory in our donation box.

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The Great Orion Nebula (M42)

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Dark Sky Trip

Our next Dark Sky Trip will be on November 20th, 2009. To signup for the trip click HERE.

Astronomy Club News

November 3, 2009 - The Astronomy Club now has a working CCD Imaging Camera to take pictures of those deep space objects with clarity and detail. We will be using this camera with our new computer on our new 8" Meade telescope with the club at our meetings. Members will be able to take their own pictures of their favorite object in the sky and edit the image all on their own and/or with the help of club officers!

The Dark Sky Trip on Friday October 23, 2009 turned out to be a huge success! We were able to see deep space objects with ease and clarity and over 40 members who showed up which was our largest group we have ever taken to the Everglades. - Read More

Top Astronomy News

Shedding light on the cosmic skeleton Astronomers were able to make a real demographic study of a massive filamentary structure, and they have identified several groups of galaxies surrounding the main galaxy cluster. - Read More

VERITAS telescope array helps solve the origin of cosmic rays Observations of M82 show that exploding stars and stellar "winds" power cosmic rays. - Read More

Opening up a colorful cosmic jewel box One of the most spectacular star clusters nestles deep in the southern skies near the Southern Cross in the constellation Crux. - Read More

Fermi telescope caps its first year with a glimpse of space-time Scanning the entire sky every 3 hours, the Large Area Telescope is giving Fermi scientists an increasingly detailed look at the extreme universe. - Read More

Approach of the robot armada! Wolfgang Fink has a dream straight out of science fiction: Instead of sending a paltry robot or two to distant planets, scientists should send multiple expendable robots. Robots that can talk to one another and adapt to unexpected events. Robots that can think. - Read More

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