Litchfield Hills Amateur Astronomy Club

Talk topic:  "Saturn - the real Lord of the Rings" The Cassini spacecraft, which has been orbiting Saturn since 2004, has made many amazing discoveries about the planet and its rings.  To prevent accidental contamination of one of the moons or another object by Earth microorganisms the spacecraft will be destroyed by burning up in Read More...

The “Great American Eclipse”, as the press has labeled it, will be on Monday, August 21st.  Although Connecticut is well out of the path where the Sun will be totally eclipsed by the Moon, the Litchfield Hills Amateur Astronomy Club and White Memorial Conservation Center are hosting a special daytime program to observe the eclipse.  Read More...

Talk topic:  Eclipse wrap-up.  There won't be a talk - more of a discussion about the eclipse.  Bring photos if you have any and share your experience of the eclipse.  Talk starts in the AB Ceder room. After the talk there will be stargazing if the weather permits.  Free; open to the public.  Children under Read More...

Talk topic: No talk this month, stargazing only, weather permitting.  (If the weather does not permit, the event is cancelled.)  Free; open to the public. Children under 16 must be accompanied by an adult. Dress warmly, as even in the summer it may be chilly.

In a talk at the Oliver Wolcott Library in Litchfield, Joe will discuss the nature of Light.  When you hear or read about astronomy, descriptions of stars or galaxies, or the discovery of planets in a distant solar system, do you ever wonder how scientists discovered all that information? It is amazing that no human Read More...