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MAS Happenings – August 12 2025
Happenings this Week I was scanning weather forecasts for the astronomy-adjacent hype that meteorologists love to sprinkle in —just in case I'm cornered at an upcoming get-together with non-astronomer friends. (You just know someone’s going to say “Did you see the Crayfish Moon last night?” and I want to be ready.) In the midst of this I came across one of...
MAS Happenings – August 5 2025
Happenings this Week In last week's Happenings, I may have compared astrophotography to the "dark arts" in Harry Potter. Well, this week…the imagers strike back. Not with displeased emails to the MAS secretary inbox. Not with revenge. But with stunning, mind-blowing, photon-wrangled beauty. While some of us were star-hopping our way to uninspiring faint...
MAS Happenings – July 29 2025
Happenings this Week The ELO Committee is keeping a tight lid on the celebrity lineup for this year’s Camping with the Stars. It’s not for lack of trying that this Happenings correspondent doesn’t (yet) have the inside scoop. With nothing but gut instinct to go on (and I may or may not have once worked the Hollywood beat), I’m going to guess that the newly...
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