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...
Sep 23, 2025 | MAS Happenings
Happenings this Week Welcome to the Dark Side! And no, I don’t mean that Happenings readers have ALL become imagers. I mean the actual dark side of the year. The autumnal equinox was yesterday, and that means the Sun has finally gotten our collective memo to hightail...
