The Annual Meeting, where we elect the next year’s officers, share a potluck meal, and enjoy seasonal revelry will be held at the Thompson Library this year on Monday December 14th.  Please note that this is two days later than usual and in a...

President Don Ferren called the meeting to order  at 7 PM, there were 17 members and visitors in attendance. Old Business: We discussed placing the 8″ SCT in the dome observatory.  The general consensus was that it was a good idea but we were...

Two small planets hurtle toward each other at 22,000 miles per hour. They’re on a collision course. With unimaginable force, they smash into each other in a flash of light, blasting streams of molten rock far out into space. This cataclysmic scene...

This Saturday night, CAAS will have its regular monthly meeting at 7 PM at River Ridge Observatory.  John Reed will do a presentation involving the planetarium program Celestia.  At this writing, the weather forecast looks good and the Moon will be...

by Bill Engberg Woolly Hollow State Park was a huge hit Saturday night: 100-150 people Ink Black skies Milky Way was so bright a college student took a picture of it tonight…and his image looked like a NASA post card. Hubble visible...