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Your AL Web Team Needs You! (2025)

June 17, 20250 commentsstory

Are you interested in getting more involved with the Astronomical League? Do you have experience and knowledge related to websites and their maintenance? Would you like to be part of the Astronomical League’s web team? If so, the League needs you. We are looking for members who can help as part of our web team. The roles include web page support and database administration. We will be interviewing volunteers in June and July.  If this sounds like something you would like to be a part of, or you would like additional information, contact Aaron Clevenson by the end of June 2025 at aaron@clevenson.org.  We are extending the deadline to July 15, 2025 with interviews to follow in July and August.

June 2025 Reflector Magazine

June 16, 20250 commentsstory

 

The June 2025 Reflector Magazine is available for DOWNLOAD

In this issue:

  • SOLAR TOOLKITS
  • SLIM PICKINGS IN THE CONSTELLATION DRACO
  • THE ARCHDUKE AND THE TELESCOPES
  • ASTRONOMY OUTREACH FOR SICK AND INJURED KIDS
  • OBSERVING OB ASSOCIATIONS
  • THE NOVA OF 1885 AND THE MYSTERY OF THE ANDROMEDA NEBULA
    …AND MORE

Observing Program Division – A Note to Master Observers (2025)

May 14, 20250 commentsstory
  1. Have you earned your Master Observer Award?  Congratulations and well done!
  2. Are you going to the AL-Con this year in Bryce Canyon?  Awesome.  I hope to see you there.
  3. 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 answer were:  Yes, Yes, and No, then please send the email IMMEDIATELY.

If you said No to question #2, then you still have time to register on-line (until 5/31/2025).  I hope you will join us.  It will be a great convention and incredible skies!

 

Observing Program Division Announcement – 3-D Printer Tools (2025)

May 14, 20250 commentsstory

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 page:  https://www.astroleague.org/navigating-the-night-sky-guides/

If you have printed additional tools on your 3-D printer, please send them to Aaron Clevenson at aaron@clevenson.org for inclusion.  Criteria are simple:

  1. You have to have printed the for your use.
  2. They have to be useful to other observers (not “one-ofs”).
  3. Ideally, they should not require supports to print.  A brim is not an issue.

Thanks.  We look forward to seeing your tools.

 

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