Calendar for The Villages Astronomy Club

November

• 3rd: Executive Directors' Meeting 11am.
  Fishhawk Recreation Center, 2318 Buttonwood Run.

  All members welcome! Join us as we plan future events for the club, work out logistics and technical details of our events. Help us improve what we do, and have a hand in guiding the club!

• 4th: Starry Starry Night 6-9pm
  Truman Recreation Center, 2705 Canal Street.

  Join us for this special public event! We will be set up outside the Truman Rec Center near the Picnic Pavilion, showing the sights of the evening sky through our telescopes. See Jupiter, Saturn, star clusters, binary stars, nebulas, and galaxies. Invite your friends and neighbors, from both inside and outside The Villages.

• 7th: Telescope Workshop 5pm.
  Truman Recreation Center Picnic Pavilion, 2705 Canal Street.

  Learn how to choose and use a telescope or binoculars. Our astronomers answer your questions and provide tips and tricks on telescope use. We provide views of the sky to interested onlookers as well. Bring your telescope or binoculars and join us!

• 7th: Space Academy6:30pm.
  Truman Recreation Center Studebaker Room, 2705 Canal Street.

  Space Academy is an interactive session where we learn basic astronomy and discuss current research in astronomy and space exploration.

• 17th: Embry Riddle Astronomy Open House 7pm.
  Embry Riddle Aeronatical University, Daytona Beach.

  Hear a lecture and observe the sky at Embry Riddle Aeronautical University's astronomy open house. Rideshares will be arranged at meetings this month, or contact our Vice President, Ken Katta, at 917-620-1081. For additional details, please visit Embry Riddle Astronomy.

• 18th: Fruitland Park Astronomy 5pm.
  Cales Memorial Soccer Field, 300 Shiloh Street.

  See the sky with the Fruitland Park Astronomy Group. Gates open 5pm, observing begins at dusk. Bring your telescope or come to look through others' scopes. Easy setup off your tailgate for telescopes, or take your scope deeper into the park for darker conditions. Bortle 5 skies. Power available.

• 21st: General Meeting: High Energy Astronomy by Toni Graybill 6:30pm.
  Laurel Manor Recreation Center, 1985 Laurel Manor Drive.

  Join us for our club officer elections this month, club news, and a presentation by member Toni Graybill on what X-Ray astronomy teaches us about the universe, and how we conduct x-ray astronomy with space telescopes.

December

• 5th: Telescope Workshop 5:30pm.
  Truman Recreation Center Picnic Pavilion, 2705 Canal Street.

  Learn how to choose and use a telescope or binoculars. Our astronomers answer your questions and provide tips and tricks on telescope use. We provide views of the sky to interested onlookers as well. Bring your telescope or binoculars and join us!

• ---- Space Academy none
  There will be no Space Academy this month

  Join us on Feb 5th, 2024 as Space Academy returns with Ken Katta's Astronomy 101 class as Space Academy moves to the first Monday of each month.

• 16th: Fruitland Park Astronomy 5pm.
  Cales Memorial Soccer Field, 300 Shiloh Street.

  See the sky with the Fruitland Park Astronomy Group. Gates open 5pm for solar observers, astro observing begins at dusk. Bring your telescope or come to look through others' scopes. Easy setup off your tailgate for telescopes, or take your scope deeper into the park for darker conditions. Bortle 5 skies. Power available.

• 19th: General Meeting: Exoplanets Crash Course 6:30pm.
  Laurel Manor Recreation Center, 1985 Laurel Manor Drive.

  Join us as NASA Ambassador Anne Holland gives us a crash course in the many exoplanets, planets outside our own solar system, that have been discovered and what they tell us about our own solar system and its place in the galaxy. The presentation will be followed by Ritter's Frozen Custard as we celebrate the holidays!

January 2024

• Telescope Workshop (TBA, see below) 6pm.
  Truman Recreation Center Picnic Pavilion, 2705 Canal Street.

  January's telescope workshop date is yet to be determined. The club may hold an astronomers' star party at Homestead Astronomy Park instead. Learn how to choose and use a telescope or binoculars. Our astronomers answer your questions and provide tips and tricks on telescope use. We provide views of the sky to interested onlookers as well. Bring your telescope or binoculars and join us!

• 3rd: NO Space Academy this month!

  Join us on February 5th as Space Academy resumes with Ken Katta's Astronomy 101 class!

• 5th: Executive Directors' Meeting 11am.
  Fishhawk Recreation Center, 2318 Buttonwood Run.

  All members welcome! Join us as we plan future events for the club, work out logistics and technical details of our events. Help us improve what we do, and have a hand in guiding the club!

• 16th: General Meeting: Pauline Schwartz 6:30pm.
  Laurel Manor Recreation Center, 1985 Laurel Manor Drive.

  Join us for a presentation by member Pauline Schwartz. Her prior presentation to our club, The Chemical Basis of Life in the Universe, was very well received and we look forward to this presentation. Subject TBA.

• 20th: Fruitland Park Astronomy 5pm.
  Cales Memorial Soccer Field, 300 Shiloh Street.

  See the sky with the Fruitland Park Astronomy Group. Gates open 5pm for solar observers, astro observing begins at dusk. Bring your telescope or come to look through others' scopes. Easy setup off your tailgate for telescopes, or take your scope deeper into the park for darker conditions. Bortle 5 skies. Power available.

• 26th: Embry Riddle Astronomy Open House 7pm.
  Embry Riddle Aeronatical University, Daytona Beach.

  Hear a lecture and observe the sky at Embry Riddle Aeronautical University's astronomy open house. Rideshares will be arranged at meetings this month, or contact our Vice President, Ken Katta, at 917-620-1081. For additional details, please visit Embry Riddle Astronomy.