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President: Vice President: Secretary: Treasurer: |
Roger Cowley Bernie Kosher Dave Neunheuser 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 (formerly known as the Willingboro Astronomical Society). Our club is in its 49th 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 (dues can now be paid through PayPal).
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President: Vice President: Secretary: Treasurer: |
Roger Cowley Bernie Kosher Dave Neunheuser Wade Evans |
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Announcements Last Update: Sunday, September 11, 2016
| Sept 16 | Full Moon at 3:05 pm EDT, in eastern Capricornus. |
| Sept 16 | Formal Meeting, 7:30 pm at the Virtua Health and Wellness Center in Moorestown, NJ. As always, guests are welcome and no astronomical experience is necessary. Use the Main Entrance and check with the security guard who will direct you to the conference room. Click here for the minutes of the September 2 meeting. |
| Sept 22 | Equinox, 10:21 am EDT; the southbound sun crosses the celestial equator marking the start of Autumn for the Northern Hemisphere. At that moment, the sun's geocentric right ascension and declination will be 12 hr & 0°, the ecliptic longitude and latitude will be 180° & 0° (where the celestial equator and the ecliptic intersect). |
| Sept 30 | New Moon at 8:11 pm EDT, in Virgo. |
| Oct 1 | Public Star Watch at Atsion Field (not Batsto!). Check back on Saturday, October 1st, for the go/no-go weather call. The full schedule of Public Star Watches for 2016 is available here. |
| Oct 7 | Informal Meeting, 7:30 pm at the Virtua Health and Wellness Center in Moorestown, NJ. |
Photo Spotlight Image posted 09.03.2016
Club member Dan McCauley captured this fine image of the Cocoon Nebula, IC 5146, a reddish emission nebula in Cygnus. To it's left, stretches the dark nebula complex including the binocular-accessible Barnard 168. Dan captured this image around 11 pm EDT on August 4, 2016, from Atsion Field in Wharton State Forest, NJ. He used a Canon EOS 6D digital SLR camera (full-spectrum modified by Gary Honis, plus an Astronomic IR/UV clip-in filter) at the prime focus of a Takahashi TOA-130 f/7.7 triplet apochromatic refractor tracking on an Astro-Physics Mach1GTO German equatorial mount. It was exposed 20 minutes (5 x 4 minute subs) at ISO 1600. Processing performed with PixInsight.
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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.