Apr 14, 2026 | MAS Happenings
Happenings this Week It’s Galaxy Season! This weekend, CGO hosts the annual Virgo Venture. Which reminds us that it’s that time of year when our night sky is angled away from the obscuring dust of our own Milky Way and we can see farther into deep space, including a...
Mar 17, 2026 | MAS Happenings
Happenings this Week Happy Saint Patrick’s Day! It would be fun if we could turn the whole sky into shimmering green curtains to celebrate. But since none of us can control solar weather (alas), I’ll settle for filling this week’s intro with a few other GREEN THINGS...
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 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...
