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March AL Live

AL LIVE! March 1, 2024, 7 p.m. EST     Click here for the announcement. (https://www.astroleague.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/AL-LIVE-20240301.pdf)

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Chuck Allen: 

“Seeing Faster-Than-Light Objects

and Other Perspectives on Distance”

Props are used to initiate discussion of the distances covered, or likely to be covered, by space exploration. We’ll explore the limits of naked eye vision and of amateur and professional telescopes. We’ll then examine the four horizons of our observable universe, looking at the causes and effects of horizons and the ability of photons to reach us from regions receding from us faster than light. And if you feel small at the end, I have a cure for that too.

Chuck Allen is vice-president and past-president of the Astronomical League. He founded the National Young Astronomer Award in 1991, received the 1998 G. R. Wright Award for service, holds the League’s Master Outreach Award with nearly 600 public programs logged, and is a gold level Master-Observer with 43 programs completed. Chuck coordinates three League Observing Programs and co-chaired ALCon ’21 Virtual during COVID. He is past president of the Louisville Astronomical Society and current Program Director for the Evansville Astronomical Society.

The Great 2024 Eclipse – Your Complete Guide

 

 

 

In celebration of the 2024 eclipse, Sky & Telescope just released a 64-page special edition of our magazine titled The Great 2024 Eclipse – Your Complete Guide to the April 8th Solar Eclipse, (https://shopatsky.com/products/2024-eclipse-guide) plus it includes 2 free pair of eclipse glasses.

Many of us are familiar with Sky and Telescope and the American Astronomical Society.  They have published this guide to the upcoming Solar Eclipse (in April).  We are bringing this to you because the Astronomical League is an official Sky and Telescope Great 2024 Eclipse Partner.

Observing Program Division Announcement – Bambury 600 Certificate

Do you observe south of the Equator?  Are you looking for a significant observing challenge?  Then the Bambury 600 Southern Skies Observing Certification is for you.  The Astronomical League and OZSKY are offering a joint certificate to those who complete the entire list of 600 observations.  You do NOT need to be an AL member to participate.  This Observing Certificate allows for Imaging and Remote Telescopes.  Information and rules can be found on the Southern Sky Telescope Observing Program web page:

https://www.astroleague.org/southern-sky-telescopic-observing-program/

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