It was an overflow crowd at Monday's (January 15th) TAS Telescope Fundamentals. Over 50 people of all ages showed up to learn more about telescopes and how to use them. TAS' first "Joe Haley Young Achievers Award" was presented to 5th-grader Syvannah Weaver. We expect a similiar crowd at our
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Syvannah Weaver was awarded TAS' first "Joe Haley Young Acheivers Award" at our January 15th meeting. Ms. Weaver has shown a wonderful interest in science and space in general. Congratulations Syvannah.
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TAS held a star party for the School of Arts and Sciences, Thursday Jan. 25th at the Lake Alford Greenway. We had at least eight scopes set up and over 100 people showed up. It was chilly but clear. A spendid time was had by all.
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TAS went out Feb 7th after sunset and watched Venus and Mercury lighting the western horizon. Joe, Jim and Ken set up scopes and helped about 15 folks enjoy the view. A couple of Ken's Kate Sullivan 5th graders also showed up. We were also able to observe Uranus which
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It was a capacity crowd at the Challenger Learning Center planetarium on Monday, February 19th for TAS' "Locating Objects in the Sky." The program was the second in a three-part series to introduce the public to telescopes, the sky and more. Bill Skelley was the master of ceremony for the
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On Tuesday, February 20, TAS' was at it one more time bringing the joy and wonder of the night sky to students, families and teachers at Chaires Elementary School. While the star party was clouded out, Bill Skelley put on a first-class PowerPoint presentation to the 75 or so in
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TAS is pleased to participate in the National High Magnetic Field Labratory's open house. We will be there with our solar scopes with amazing views of the sun. We will also be selling tickets for our telescope raffle for the Joe Halley prize and answering your TAS and astronomy questions.
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TAS had a crowd of 50 or more at Lake Ella Saturday night, March 3rd, to watch the Moon rise in total eclipse. While the clouds did not cooperate, we did get to catch the last part of the eclipse. TAS kept the general public pleased with views of Venus
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Over 50 people came out to TAS' star party at the Florida Caverns State Park in Marianna on May 19th. Sponsored by the Friends of the Caverns, TAS' had over eight telescopes set-up for viewing. Participants got to see the moon, Venus, Saturn and a whole host of deep sky
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Read about the definition of a Blue Moon and how the definition changed by mistake.
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