
Clubs near me?
#1
Posted 04 February 2019 - 11:17 PM
#3
Posted 04 February 2019 - 11:44 PM
Type in your zip code and this site will tell you local clubs and a calendar of their events.
https://nightsky.jpl...-and-events.cfm
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#4
Posted 21 January 2020 - 12:50 PM
Hi! I'm in Greenville (Piedmont area), and am a member of the Roper Mountain Astronomers. If you haven't discovered us yet, you can find more information at https://rmastro.com
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#5
Posted 21 January 2020 - 07:55 PM
There's another list of clubs in South Carolina at https://www.skyandte...title&order=asc
#6
Posted 21 January 2020 - 08:45 PM
If you don't mind driving up here, we have an excellent club in Asheville. https://www.astroasheville.org/ It has about 150-160 members, tho' only a small percentage are active observers. We normally get 60-75 folks at monthly indoor meetings at UNC-A; I think our record is 106.
We've got two observatories, one on a fairly dark mountaintop @ 4100' in the next county north, the other on campus in town, built & operated in partnership with the university. We normally schedule two stargazes a month, skies permitting.
Come on up!
Jim H.
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#7
Posted 01 February 2020 - 11:40 PM
Another club happy to have you, as visitor or member, is Catawba Valley Astronomy Club in Maiden, NC. We have public nights on 1st and 3rd Friday every month and have a great observatory, the only freestanding high school observatory in NC, with a 10" f/9.2 Newtonian. Lots of club-owned telescopes, up to a 25" f/4.5 Dobsonian. We do a lot of off-site viewing nights , mostly at Paddy's Creek Access of Lake James State Park west of Morganton, and go several times a year to mount Mitchell Overlook on the BRP, which is at 4000 feet.
Check out our website :
Edited by Luna-tic, 01 February 2020 - 11:42 PM.
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#8
Posted 18 October 2022 - 03:20 PM
I'm in the Spartanburg/Greenville SC area, I wouldn't mind starting a club or finding someone to share the hobby with..
#9
Posted 04 February 2025 - 01:06 PM
Also in Greer SC. I know this is an old likely dead thread but Im interested in talking shop. Currently working on a 18" f/4.
#10
Posted 04 February 2025 - 09:36 PM
Sorry, I’m in Charleston. We have the Lowcountry Stargazers Club here as well as The Charleston Planetary Society.