- This event has passed.
2026 MAS Monthly Meeting – Featured Speaker: Chuck Allen
The MAS will be hosting a hybrid in-person & ZOOM Monthly Meeting. MAS meetings are free and open to the public. JOIN US!
Featured Speaker: Chuck Allen – Astronomical League President
Topic: The Home Galaxy
Starting with the sun’s plunge through the Local Fluff, this program examines the Milky Way Galaxy from the inside out. Seen first are neighborhood stars and exoplanets, the Pleaides Moving Group responsible for our Local Bubble, the Radcliffe Wave, the Orion Spur to which many popular nebulae and clusters belong, recent supernovae, and finally the core of the galaxy, SgrA*, and its S-star neighbors. After a review of galactic structure, we look at the galaxy’s Fermi Bubbles, globular clusters, stellar streams, and integrated flux nebulae, and, just beyond, the Milky Way’s 71 companion galaxies and Local Group neighbors, one of which shares with us an intimate past and a future fate.
Bio: Chuck Allen is president of the Astronomical League. He holds gold level Master Observer status with 45 observing programs completed, founded the National Young Astronomer Award in 1993, and received the League’s G. R. Wright Award for service in 1998. He has given more than 570 lectures and programs on astronomy and makes regular appearances in Explore Scientific global star party and League Live broadcasts. He also co-chaired ALCon ’21 Virtual. Chuck is past president of the Louisville Astronomical Society and program director of the Evansville Astronomical Society. He served as a judge and lead judge for the Intel (now Regeneron) International Science and Engineering Fair (1995-2002) and currently serves as a best-in-fair high school judge for two regional science fairs.
Reminder if you are feeling ill or have been around someone who has been ill, PLEASE STAY HOME!!
Meeting Location:
AŊPÉTU TÉČA Education Center
1910 County Road B West
Roseville, Minnesota 55113
The hybrid meetings will be recorded on ZOOM, and post-edited for publication after a few days on the MAS YouTube Channel.
This meeting will be held online using Zoom using the following URL:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86397339731?pwd=7vctWn6P5gkUEqLr0tsjO2lF9gliCI.1
You can probably hear best with a headset but your computer’s speaker and microphone will also work.
Dialing-in with a phone:
- Meeting ID: 863 9733 9731
- Passcode: 579232
- Number: +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)
In order to ensure the most success we are asking everyone to follow a couple of rules:
- Don’t turn on your camera – it sucks up bandwidth and we really don’t need to see you.
- Keep your microphone muted until you are prompted during a question and answer session during the presentation. This will cut down background noise substantially.
- You can request to ask a question in the chat area of the Meet and wait to be prompted by the moderator.
We hope you can join us.
Clear skies!
