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The Dark Sky Trip on Friday November 20, 2009 exceeded our expectations. The weather was wonderful and the number of people who showed up and drove was excellent!. - Read More

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

LCROSS Impact Meeting - NASA Mission was a success on October 9th. Our Astronomy Club was able to watch the impacts as they happened. Check out our pictures! - Read More

Astronomy World News

Here comes the 2009 Leonid meteor shower
This year's viewing conditions are close to ideal, allowing the luckiest observers to see hundreds of meteors November 16/17. - Read More

Swift, XMM-Newton satellites tune in to a middleweight black hole
Astronomers find that an X-ray source in galaxy NGC 5408 represents one of the best cases for a middleweight black hole to date. - Read More

NASA's great observatories celebrate International Year of Astronomy
NASA released images of the galactic center region to more than 150 planetariums, museums, nature centers, libraries, and schools across the country. - Read More

NASA gives "go" for space shuttle Atlantis launch November 16
Senior NASA and contractor managers assessed the risks associated with the mission and determined the shuttle's equipment, support systems, and procedures are ready. - Read More

Frost-covered Phoenix Lander seen in winter images
The HiRISE team targeted its camera at the known location of the lander to get the new images and compared them to a HiRISE image of the frost-free lander taken June 2008. - Read More

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

How the Moon produces its own water Electrically charged particles interact with the oxygen present in some dust grains on the lunar surface and produce water. - Read More

The Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) captures all phases of Centaur impactInstruments successfully captured each phase of the impact sequence -- the impact flash, the ejecta plume, and the creation of the Centaur crater. - Read More

Spacecraft provides first view of our place in the galaxy
Scientists compiled data from 6 months of observations with the Interstellar Boundary Explorer to produce the first comprehensive sky map of our solar system. - Read More

Scientists use supercomputers to 'see' black holes
Awards and more time on a top supercomputer will dramatically enhance team's access to the most sophisticated computer power in the world. - Read More

32 new exoplanets found The High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher is the world's foremost exoplanet hunter. - Read More