Youth Journalism Award Competition
It is time for young people to work on their submissions. Encourage someone you know to participate. For more information click o nthe fliers (click Read More to get the active links…
It is time for young people to work on their submissions. Encourage someone you know to participate. For more information click o nthe fliers (click Read More to get the active links…
The Observing Challenge is in full swing on January 1 through December 31, 2025. If you are doing outreach activities to spread the word about the Hubble Telescope, its fantastic ccomplishments or the Observing Challenge, and you would like to pass out Participation Certificates to your attendees, then we are please to announce that the participant certificate is now available. It may be downloaded from the Astronomical League’s Downloadable Certificates web page: https://www.astroleague.org/downloadable-certificates/. Remember to start your personal observing towards the challenge in January and do your observations each month to go for the gold…
Each January (usually) the League searches for people who are interested in helping out as Observing Program Coordinators. If you would like to apply, please send an email to Aaron Clevenson at aaron@clevenson.org. This list of openings may change, but as of now we know we need these positions filled: Space Weather Observing Program, Caldwell Observing Program, Flat Galaxies, and others. Please send me an email even if you have already done so, to ensure that we do not miss you. Thanks.
AL Live in December, featuring Scott Harrington entitled Observing it All with Binoculars. For more details – click on the link: https://www.astroleague.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/AL-LIVE-20241206-scaled.jpeg
Are you an officer in your local astronomical society? Especially the President or the ALCor? We have made great progress in getting the individual member societies on the AL web site. We are about half done, but we need information from the other societies. This is a great way for potential future members to find you. The more information you can provide the easier it is for them to reach you, and join!
To find out if we have you in the database:
If your society is NOT in the database, then:
Thanks for helping us help your society reach propective members.
If you are participating in this observing challenge, then you have your first observation already done. If not, you seem to have plenty of time to get one done. It has not happened, and the latest prediction I have seen suggests that is could be between March 27 or November 10, 2025 (or later). Keep your initial observation and watch for news about an eruption. The Special Observing Challenge is just waiting for it to occur.
For more information on this latest timing approximation, check out this website: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ad8bba.
2025 is the Hubble Telescope’s 35th Anniversary. To celebrate this awesome 35 years, NASA and the Astronomical League is bring you a year-long Special Observing Award. There are monthly silver level certificates, and there is a gold level certificate and pin at the end as well. Note: The gold level requires more monthly observations than the individual silver levels… For more information check out the NASA Observing Challenges web page: https://www.astroleague.org/nasa-observing-challenges-special-awards/
Did you know that the AL has a presence on ouTube and Facebook? Lots of good information. To see the poster click here: PDF Format, JPEG Format.
The Observing Program Division is pleased to announce the inclusion of a new Observing Program Relationship Graphic. It is a represetation of the Universe, the Milky Way, and the solar system with the Observing Programs grouped and superimposed to show how they relate to the cosmos. It is available through our menues by using Observe>Observing Program Division, and scrolling down to the bottom of the Observing Program Planning Tool section, by clicking on this link to go directly to that page, or by clicking here to see it directly. The explanation of the graphic is contained on the Observing Program Division web page. Enjoy.
The Astronomical League is pleased to announce its newest Observing Program: The Extragalactic Objects Observing Program. This is not a galaxy program, but an observing program featuring very Deep Space Objects (other than galaxies). These are the familiar objects from our own galaxy (Open Clusters, Globular Clusters, etc.) but they are part of other galaxies (such as Andromeda). Check out the new program, its requirements and its object list: https://www.astroleague.org/extragalactic-objects-observing-program/