The members of the Champaign–Urbana Astronomical Society mourn the pass-ing of Doug Rokke. In the last few years, Doug has been a very active member of our club, providing significant material assistance for our award-winning floats at the Inde-pendence Day parades, giving talks at club meetings, and as-sisting with public outreach events. He clearly loved …
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The Great Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn apparently caught the attention of a lot of people! Many were drawn to it as another cool astronomical event, since it was the closest we’ve been able to see the two largest planets in almost 800 years. (The 1623 conjunction was even closer to the setting Sun than …
December 2020 I hope the club’s election process went well for you. Please provide feedback to us about your experience so can improve the setup for future elections. Thank you all for supporting me to be president for the next year. I hope we will have enough vaccinations available to hold in-person meetings and public …
Our club has received the donation of a new Solar telescope by Daystar . There are two narrow Band Filters. One for prominence and one for the Cromosphere . Both filters are electrically temperature regulated using a rechargeable battery pack. In addition there is a Orion solar starseeker tracking altitude azimuth mount. It is so …