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MAS Happenings – September 16 2025
Happenings this Week I've been reading (and re-reading) The Expanse series—highly recommended if you like smart, gritty sci-fi. (The TV show holds up, too.) Since it was my birthday yesterday, I decided to calculate my age on various solar system worlds—ones the series characters inhabit. On Mars, I’d be a spry 29. On Ganymede, barely 4. You can...
MAS Happenings – September 9 2025
Happenings this Week Another New Member Orientation is happening soon. For those of you reading this who are still on the fence, I present... The Top 10 Reasons to Join the MAS: 10. Your inner critic hasn't shut up since you bought that telescope…still in the box. 9. You finally want to understand what collimation actually means. 8. Your current social...
MAS Happenings – September 2 2025
Happenings this Week A few nights ago, while tinkering with my new imaging setup, a file mysteriously appeared on my laptop. No email. No download. Just… there on my desktop. “Origin: Vega quadrant.” In defiance of every IT warning ever—phishing, smishing—I opened it. Because: aliens. It said this: Grenthul vark’tess? M’karu lun’th’vex droglip! Nuur-raak...
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