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President: Vice President: Secretary: Treasurer: |
Jim Fusco Bob Lill Suzanne Leap Wade Evans |
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West Jersey Astronomical Society www.wasociety.us
Welcome to the Official Home Page of the West Jersey Astronomical Society (additionally known as the Willingboro Astronomical Society). Our club is in its 57th year of serving both the public and the amateur astronomers of the Delaware Valley. We have a long history of public education, star parties, interesting meetings, in-depth training and experienced leadership. We are a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization. Click here for membership information. Members in good standing have access to the gated Barnegat Road Observing Site in the dark New Jersey Pines.
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President: Vice President: Secretary: Treasurer: |
Jim Fusco Bob Lill Suzanne Leap Wade Evans |
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Announcements Last Update: Thursday, April 25, 2024
| May 2 | Star Watch at the Rancocas Nature Center in Westhampton, NJ, 8:00 to 11:00 pm EDT. Registration and a fee are required, details and directions on their linked home page. Member scope support will be needed! |
| May 3 | Formal Meeting at the Virtua Health and Wellness Center, Conference Ctr, Room 155A, Moorestown, NJ, 7:30 pm. Guests are welcome. |
| May 8 | Public Star Watch at Historic Smithville Park in Easthampton, NJ, just outside of Mt Holly. It begins at 8:00 pm EDT. Note that this Burlington County event requires a no-fee registration. Check back here on the day of the event for the go/no-go weather call. There's a weather backup date of May 9. |
| May 11 | Public Star Watch at Atsion, beginning at 8:00 pm EDT. No registration required. Check back here on the day of the event for the go/no-go weather call. |
| May 17 | Informal Meeting at the Virtua Health and Wellness Center, Conference Ctr, Room 155A, Moorestown, NJ, 7:30 pm. Guests are welcome. |
| May 23 | Full Moon at 9:53 am EDT in Scorpius. |
Photo Spotlight Image posted 4.19.2024
Club member Howard Schneck used Photoshop to create this montage of images he captured during the total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024. Howard reports his location was Pittsburg, New Hampshire, where there was about a foot of snow and the temperature warmed up to 58°F, but dropped to 51°F during totality, which lasted 3 minutes and 28 seconds. They had clear and very transparent skies throughout the entire eclipse as a result of moving eastward from the previous day's starting point on the east coast of Lake Ontario in New York.
Equipment used was a Canon 80D DSLR camera and a Redcat71, a 71 mm, f/4.9 apo refractor (FL = 350 mm) riding a Sky-Watcher NEQ6 German equatorial mount. Eclipse Orchestrator was used to automatically collect the images. Click here, or on the picture, for a larger version (about 7 MB).
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Sky & Telescope's
This Week's Sky at a Glance, April 19 to 28, 2024.
The USNO's
The Sky This Week,
April 23, 2024,
Looking Deep and Deeper.
Get the monthly
Evening Sky Map.
Note: For April 2024, the first page of the PDF presented by
clicking "Download"
shows the chart for May 2024, although the text is appropriate for April. The
chart on the third page is indeed correct for April.
Click to contact the
. Members are encouraged to submit their astronomical images to the
webmaster for inclusion on the WAS Home Page. Be sure to include a description,
date and time, as well as equipment and photo data.
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