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YCAS February 5th Meeting rescheduled
for the 19th.
Planetarium Shows February 12th starting at 7:00 PM.
See: Planetarium
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FREE TELESCOPE CLINIC & PUBLIC OBSERVING
Need help with your telescope? Bring your
telescope to John Rudy Park YCAS observatory February 20th and
YCAS astronomers will be on hand to help you. Public observing
is free and open to the all. See details at: New
Telescope Clinic. See: Public
Observing |
Imaging
The Moon
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Above is a Lunar
Sunrise photographed by YCAS member Michelle Wenz. You can see
the change in the shadows as the Sun rises on the lunar surface
as the mountain peaks shadows move across the crater Ptolemaeus
in this two hour and eleven minute time lapse animation taken
from Michelle's larger images. See larger images at: Lunar
imaging
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YCAS Member
Discovers Two New Asteroids

YCAS member John Sachs has discovered two
new unknown asteroids. For more information of discovery and
animations see: Discovery |
Above is an image of the lunar
crater Schiller taken by YCAS member Mike Wenz. It was taken at the YCAS
observatory at John Rudy Park in York, PA using the York County's LX-200
telescope and his DMK21AF04 CCD camera. The images were stacked
using around 1000 exposures out of 1500 exposures and processed using
Registax. See: Lunar
images
York
County, Adams County, Pennsylvania Astronomy The Scout Merit Badge
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I stood
and stared; the sky was lit,
The sky was stars all over it,
I stood, I knew not why,
Without a wish, without a will,
I stood upon that silent hill
And stared into the sky until
My eyes were blind with stars and still
I stared into the sky. --Ralph Hodgson (1913)
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York County Astronomical Society, Located in York, Pennsylvania
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