The monthly sky tools are available for February: https://www.astroleague.org/navigating-the-night-sky-guides/
We also want to announce the addition of a What’s Up Doc? Newsletter for the Mountain Time Zone (Boise Idaho).
To automatically receive these newsletters in your email inbox each month, send a request to aaron@clevenson.org
Watch the next AL LIVE! Friday January 25, 7 pm EST
Laurie Ansorge discusses amateur astronomy in the computer age. The times they are a changin’!
Also Chuck Allen gives updates on the Astronomical League Awards Programs and Don Knabb shares what is coming up in the night sky. Finally, John Goss talks more about volunteerism and the AL’s need for volunteers.
Hosted by Terry Mann.
Watch the Live Stream or Recorded: Explorescientific.com/live or www.facebook.com/Astronomical.League
To see the brochure: https://www.astroleague.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/AL-LIVE-20240125-Ansorge.pdf
• Call for Volunteer Advertising Coordinator for Reflector Magazine
• AL Live January 24
• Youth Award Programs
• Williamina Fleming Imaging Award Program
• Sketching Award Competition
• Digital only Reflector for March 2025
Download the newsletter Whats Up with Astro League January 11 2025
The Astronomical League is excited to announce that we have four new Coordinators that have been appointed by Chuck Allen, the AL President.
Reminder – do your January obserations ASAP… 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/
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
The November edition of What’s Up with the Astronomical League is available for download here – Whats Up with Astro League November 2024
