Leonids Meteor Shower Reminder!
Don’t forget about the upcoming meteor shower! The moon’s minimal (yay!) and you don’t even need a telescope – just go outside and look up! Try to find a space away from city lights, and enjoy it with a friend.
Blue Moon on Halloweeeeeen!
A lunar month takes 29.53 days. This is the amount of time it takes for the Moon to complete a cycle through all the phases, from new moon to full moon and then back to new moon again. This is very close to the length of a month in the [Read More…]
Special Halloween Astronomy Broadcast
Let’s go star gazing for Halloween! Premieres Saturday, October 10th at 7PM (PDT). Halloween needs more Galileos, Keplers and Sir Isaac Newtons knocking on doors and asking for sweets to remind us of the scientific discoveries that made our current understanding of the universe possible. Without scientific breakthroughs, we would [Read More…]
Free Online Tour of the Moon
Join CCAS Officer, Lee Coombs as he presents a tour of the Moon. He will discuss its formation and terrain while diving deep into the features that one can observe starting with the 5 day Moon, and ending with the 11 day Moon. This will include features that one can [Read More…]
Guest Speaker Russ Glenn – July 23rd
Our speaker for July is Russ Glenn, the Director of Education for Slooh. Designed to inspire, Slooh’s education curriculum is the fruition of Slooh’s National Science Foundation grant, ‘Curriculum Driven Gamification of Space Exploration’. Slooh offers: Robotic Telescopes: Slooh provides real-time viewing and control of robotic telescopes, including seven telescopes [Read More…]
Comet Neowise!
A comet visiting from the most distant parts of our solar system is putting on a spectacular nighttime display. Named Comet C/2020 F3 NEOWISE, the comet made its once-in-our-lifetimes close approach to the Sun on July 3, 2020, and will cross outside Earth’s orbit on its way back to the [Read More…]
Virtual Member Hangout – Online Meeting – July 25th at 8PM
We’ve been having so much fun with our members-only monthly, so we are planning to continue these throughout the summer. This is a fun opportunity for CCAS members to connect and discuss all things astronomy during these stay-at-home times. We’re going to start just after sunset at 8 PM and [Read More…]