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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 Program
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)
The York County Astronomical Society, Located in York, Pennsylvania
The Astronomical League
The American Meteor Society
International Dark Sky Association
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