Dec 2, 2025 | MAS Happenings
Happenings this Week It’s been a long campaign season—marked by astounding amounts of money not spent on attack ads, and a series of lengthy debates (the ones each candidate has had in their own head while questioning their life choices and level of volunteer...
Nov 25, 2025 | MAS Happenings
Happenings this Week There will be CAKE at next week’s monthly meeting, so save room while you’re enjoying your turkey feast. Happy Thanksgiving! Friday, November 28 7:30 – 9:00 PM CT Beginners’ astronomy lesson, laser sky tour, sky legends from around the...
Nov 18, 2025 | MAS Happenings
Happenings this Week As Astrologer to the Astronomers (one of my many dubious hats), I thought I’d do a reading this week. I only had time for one. Your Horoscope Today: Ophiuchus Your month is just around the corner, Ophiuchus — but instead of excitement, your...
Nov 11, 2025 | MAS Happenings
Happenings this Week ROLL OUT THE RED CARPET, SKY NERDS — THE TAURID SWARM HAS ARRIVED! Earth has been plowing directly into the legendary debris stream of Comet Encke — delivering SLOW-MOTION FIREBALLS blazing across the heavens at MAXIMUM DRAMATIC IMPACT!!AND...
Nov 4, 2025 | MAS Happenings
Happenings this Week I’m looking forward to this Thursday’s guest speaker topic: small objects in the solar system. Though, it reminds me, the IAU’s 3-tiered classification scheme has always bugged me. So, in my spare time this week, I’ve been perfecting my...
Oct 28, 2025 | MAS Happenings
Happenings this Week Our web team has worked hard over the past few weeks to fend off a bot attack, move us onto a new platform, and restore services to our website and discussion forum. A huge thank-you goes to Kris Bethea, Mike Kibat, and John Morevic for all the...
Oct 21, 2025 | MAS Happenings
Happenings this Week It’s a big week for comets: both Comet SWAN (C/2025 R2) and Comet Lemmon (C/2025 A6) are reaching nearest approach to Earth and peak brightness in the same week. Naturally, I’ve been consulting my charts, animal bones, and trusty crystal ball to...
Oct 14, 2025 | MAS Happenings
Happenings this Week This week I’ll be continually checking my app to see if things are a go or no-go. If a go, I’ll spend hours sitting in uncomfortable seating, wondering what the food/snack situation is, and possibly being called upon to make sense of...
Oct 7, 2025 | MAS Happenings
Happenings this Week The Astronomical League’s Huygens TOES Challenge is wrapping up, and I was going to send my sketch to Jerry. I was feeling pretty good about it—until I learned that TOES actually stands for Titan’s Ocular Equatorial Shadow. Not, as I had assumed,...
Sep 30, 2025 | MAS Happenings
Happenings this Week It’s Cake Week! Well, not yet. But it is that time of year when I binge too many baking shows and start issuing myself ridiculous culinary challenges. Case in point: I just promised my coworkers a vegetable-flavored cake—with alternating...
