Post: Editorial Notes

Editorial Notes

This issue presents a new monthly Eyepiece Feature, Astral Insights, by Robert Marx who teaches physics and astronomy at the college level.  It’s always enjoyable

Message from the President

The April 8th, 2024 total eclipse is not to be missed, raincheck not until 2079! For New Yorkers, the April 8, 2024, solar eclipse is

What’s Up in the Sky – April 2024

AAA Observers’ April   Guide April’s Evening Planets: Bright Jupiter will be between Aries the Ram and Taurus the Bull until around 10 PM and setting

Events on the Horizon – April 2024

Join AAA with Pioneer Works and Green-Wood Cemetery on April 8, 2024, at 1:30 PM for Solar Eclipse 2024! Details below. Observing April 1: 7:00

Caption 2. Screenshot from CDC of the one-third of the sky that I can see when I set up behind my house, facing southeast. That’s my chimney at 110°. The bright diagonal through the sky shows the meridian, the line connecting due south at the horizon to the zenith (highest point in the sky). Orion is still visible in the west, but will soon be in the trees.

Caption 2. Screenshot from CDC of the one-third of the sky that I can see when I set up behind my house, facing southeast. That’s my chimney at 110°. The bright diagonal through the sky shows the meridian, the line connecting due south at the horizon to the zenith (highest point in the sky). Orion is still visible in the west, but will soon be in the trees.