The Winter Solstice event, hosted by the Hayden Planetarium on Friday evening, December 20, 2019, with the participation of AAA, was a massive success. The
On Saturday, December 7, we set off on a trip to Philadelphia, to visit a housing of numerous busts of one of the nation’s Founding
On Thursday, December 5, 2019, AAA VP Bart Fried supplied a bit of School Outreach at Q425 – John Bowne High School in Flushing, Queens.
Check out Roman Barroso’s entertaining video of the Transit of Mercury from the East River Park. You don’t need to know Spanish to see our
I was at the American Museum of Natural History, on the Central Park West steps, using the Volunteer Department’s donated 6″ f/8 Dobsonian with a
I was the first to arrive to set up at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn just before 7:00 a.m. for the Transit of Mercury. A
By Parker Bossier Here’s my flickr album from the transit: https://www.flickr.com/photos/parkerbossier/albums/72157711808512487. Also see the .gif I made of a skyscraper eclipsing the transit: I moved to
On Nov. 11 in East River Park in Manhattan, a team of amateur astronomers and astro-photographers from the AAA met to document the transit of
The Mercury Transit was on a beautifully warm and sunny day — certainly warmer than the forecasts had had me expecting. The sun cleared the
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