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ASTROCON 2025 (5/14/2025) - Not to be missed. Bryce Canyon National Park - June 25-28, 2025. Registration until 5/31/2025. Check out the Notice... Read More...

Observing Program Division – A Note to Master Observers (5/14/2025) - Have you earned your Master Observer Award? Congratulations and well done! Are you going to the AL-Con this year in Bryce Canyon? Awesome. I hope to see you there. Have you received your Master Observer Plaque? Congratulations again. If you are a Master Observer, please send an email to aaron@clevenson.org with your answers. If your… Read More...

Observing Program Division Announcement – 3-D Printer Tools (5/14/2025) - The Oberving Program Division is pleased to announce a new feature on the Astronomical League website: A repository of helpful 3-D Printer Files (STL Files). If you have a 3-D printer available some of these aids might be hepful to you in your observations as well as soutreach activities. They are located on this web… Read More...

AL Live – 5/9/2025: Kevin Schindler (5/9/2025) - Join us tonight for the latest AL Live. Kevin Schindler of the Lowell Observatory - "(Mother" Road to the Stars: The Space Heritage of Route 66" on May 29, 2025 at 7 PM EDT. Watch Live Stream or Recorded: Explorescientific.com/live, or www.facebook.com/Astronomical.League To see the flyer: https://www.astroleague.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/AL-LIVE-5-09-25-Schindler.pdf Read More...

*** The Sun – An Observing Manual (5/8/2025) - This new manual is now available in the AL Store: (https://store.astroleague.org/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1&products_id=206). It was developed by two of the Observing Program Directors and replaces the prior, and out of print, AL Solar Manual. This completely revised and updated manual is a collection of information about the Sun. Everything you want to know about our nearest star… Read More...

Observing Program Division – Notice to Award Submitters (5/2/2025) - We have noticed that some award submissions are being placed in the Junk Mail Folder of some of our Coordinators. We want to make sure that we are not losing any of these submissions. We are taking steps to minimize this issue, but we need your help too. Please put the words "Award Submission" in… Read More...