Javascript Disabled Detected

You currently have javascript disabled. Several functions may not work. Please re-enable javascript to access full functionality.

CNers have asked about a donation box for Cloudy Nights over the years, so here you go. Donation is not required by any means, so please enjoy your stay.

Share Your Astronomy Club's Newsletter and Website

Started by Spacefreak1974 , Sep 30 2019 07:06 AM

beginner clubs observing outreach

This topic has been archived. This means that you cannot reply to this topic.

16 replies to this topic

#1 Spacefreak1974

Skylab

topic starter

Posts: 4,495
Joined: 09 Aug 2015

Posted 30 September 2019 - 07:06 AM

Lately i've been thinking a lot about my journey into telescope observing and where i'd be if I had not found my area astronomy club. I'd likely be still fiddling with a scope in the yard trying to find the Ring Nebula after. So may folks go about this hobby without the support of an area club and that is ok and its probably not for everyone, but i'd think most of us would get something out of it. When ever I receive the club's monthly newsletter I see how active the club is. Some folks email their outreach and observing reports to the club, but others send them just to the newsletter creator/editor, so i'm always excited to see what happened during the month. Even though I am in Central Indiana where the skies are never that great and when they are they aren't anything like in the West we have a very active club with great speakers and members passionate about outreach.

I hope that this thread is an encouragement to all! Share your club's recent newsletter and website!

Jon Thomas

Back to top

#2 Spacefreak1974

Skylab

topic starter

Posts: 4,495
Joined: 09 Aug 2015

Posted 30 September 2019 - 07:07 AM

Newsletter

https://iasindy.org/newsletter.php

Website

https://iasindy.org/

Back to top

#3 Garyth64

Cosmos

Posts: 8,680
Joined: 07 May 2015

Posted 30 September 2019 - 07:56 AM

Ford Amateur Astronomy Club (FAAC)

http://fordastronomyclub.com/

"Starstuff", our monthly newsletters:

http://fordastronomy....com/starstuff/

"Astronomy for Everyone", our monthly videos on Youtube:

http://fordastronomy...y-for-everyone/

Edited by Garyth64, 30 September 2019 - 07:57 AM.

Back to top

#4 petert913

Fly Me to the Moon

Posts: 5,755
Joined: 27 May 2013

Posted 30 September 2019 - 09:00 AM

Portland, OR as the "Rose City Astronomers" club. Despite our less than great weather, we are one of the largest

clubs in the country with over 800 members. Very active, lots of dark-site campouts across the NW. It's a really

fun and talented club with a dark site (Bortle 4) just 30 mins out of town.. Heavily populated with engineers from Intel

and the like. So there is a lot of serious AP and astronomical discussion.

https://www.rosecityastronomers.net/

Back to top

#5 Sean Wood

Viking 1

Posts: 528
Joined: 19 Apr 2011

Posted 30 September 2019 - 04:22 PM

Forsyth Astronomical Society. Serving Forsyth, Stokes and Surry counties in North Carolina. I believe we are the oldest continuously meeting astronomy club in NC. We have held regular monthly meetings since our founding in 1939.

Website:

https://www.fas37.org

Our only monthly youth outreach newsletter: The Young Astronomers Newsletter. This year marks 27th year in monthly publication. It started as a printed publication but now is a downloadable PDF.

https://www.fas37.or...youngastronews/