MAS Happenings – October 21 2025

MAS Happenings – October 21 2025

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...
2025 Member LLCC Observing Weekend – CANCELLED

2025 Member LLCC Observing Weekend – CANCELLED

MAS Star Party Member Weekend Unlike other MAS star party sites, the nature of the relationship between the MAS and the LLCC requirements affects access by both members and the general public. Specifically: Other than the Northern Nights Star Fest, Events held at LLCC...
MAS Happenings – October 14 2025

MAS Happenings – October 14 2025

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...
MAS Happenings – September 23 2025

MAS Happenings – September 23 2025

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...
MAS Happenings – September 16 2025

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...