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MAS Happenings – January 13 2026
Happenings this Week Lo, as I chart my observing season for the year of our Sun 2026, the cosmos doth reveal its cruel jest: thirteen full moons, with the month of May so greedy as to claim two. Behold, their lamentable roll call below – named not by poets or ancient farmers, but by the emotions they stir within the long-suffering keepers of glass and...
MAS Happenings – January 6 2025
Happenings this Week Welcome to 2026! I’m donning my prognostication hat to bring you my Top 10 Astronomy Predictions for the New Year (move over Nostradamus): Around February 28, non-astronomers in your social circles will ask you about a significant planetary alignment involving Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune (but alas, not Mars)....
MAS Happenings – December 10 2025
Happenings this Week My current project is to work on the Astruhnomical Leegue’s Astro Baking Award. And thanks to all of you who showed up on Election Night to vote and eat cake, I was able to log my first object: Interesting to note that the “AL” doesn’t count the Astro Bake unless it gets fully eaten. You rock! Since I decided to image this one instead...
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