Club Meetings
The Club meets in the Pewaukee Library conference room on the second Wednesday of every month at 7 pm.
Next Meeting: Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Public Events
The Second Saturday of every month the Club has a "Rain or Shine" presentation on an astronomy topic. The presentations are given in the Community Room at the Library unless otherwise noted.
Next Event: Scott Berg will give a presentation entitled “How Far to That Star?” on Saturday, February 11 at 7:00 pm, at the Pewaukee Public Library, 210 Main Street, Pewaukee. Included will be explanations of astronomical terms like ‘light year’ and ‘astronomical unit’, and how astronomers determine the distance from the Earth to the planets and stars. The event is free and intended for a general audience.
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Jupiter Picture from a Web Cam
Some of the best pictures of solar system objects are made by stacking frames from a web cam video. The picture of Jupiter below was made by stacking over 1,800 frames of video taken by a Stella Vue web cam at … Continue reading
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What a lunar eclipse! (too bad it was cloudy)
As you might know, the weather did not cooperate for our planned observing session of the total lunar eclipse. What was also unusual was that this eclipse occurred on the night of the winter solstice (the longest night of the … Continue reading
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Geminid Meteor Shower – a warmer method to observe!
The Geminid meteor shower is about as good of a meteor show as the Perseids are but happens in the cold of winter. It peaked this year at about 2 AM on December 14th while the temperature was sub-zero. Being … Continue reading
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Say Goodbye to Comet Hartley
As some of you may know, there has been another comet passing near the Earth on its periodic orbital path. It is known as a “short period” comet because it completes one orbit around the sun about every 6 years. … Continue reading
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Observations of an Exoplanet!
Last Wednesday night we lucked out with clear sky conditions and relatively good seeing to observe something amazing: the transit of an exoplanet! HD80606b is a planet that is four times larger than Jupiter, orbiting one star of a binary … Continue reading
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January’s Public Program
Please join us on Saturday, January 9th at 7pm at the Pewaukee Library. Club member Scott Berg will give a talk entitled “The Life and Times of a Star” – A short discussion of the very long life of a … Continue reading
Children’s Program Saturday, Dec 12
This Saturday from 11 to noon at the Pewaukee Library, Mike Paquette will give a talk called “Seasons and Constellations” Geared for ages 7 to 12, kids can come and see what causes our seasons, why the stars move like they do, and … Continue reading
An Unusual Variable Star in Auriga
Auriga is the “Charioteer” in the sky, and is quite prominent in the sky now. Its brightest star is Capella. A fairly bright star (3rd magnitude) not far away from Capella called epsilon Aurigae is undergoing one of its unusual … Continue reading
Public Viewing Tonight (Sat 11/7)
The observatory will be open tonight from 6:30 to 9:00 for public viewing in the large onference room. Club members will project live images from the telescope onto the view screen. See you there!
Hubble telescope is back in business!
Check out the following link for the post-servicing mission pictures taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. These pictures showcase some of the new capabilities installed during the last servicing mission in May. I think they are amazing and speak for … Continue reading
