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The Westminster Astronomical Society–Celebrating 40 years or promoting Astronomy in Carroll County. Astronomy is Looking Up!

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Current Astronomical Data:

Astronomical Times for BFRMO (39.6473, -76.9864) Starting 13 Jul 2025, for the next 1 day
Date	Morning	Sunrise	Sunset	Evening	Moonrise	Moonset	Moon Phase
Date	Twilight	Sunrise	Sunset	Twilight	Moonrise	Moonset	Moon Phase
13 Jul 2025	04:19	05:50	20:37	22:06	22:38	08:34

Planetary Data for today

	Mercury	Venus	Mars	Jupiter	Saturn	Uranus	Neptune	Pluto
Rises	07:57	03:06	10:24	04:51	23:57	02:24	23:53	21:29
Meridian	14:45	10:14	16:46	12:13	05:51	09:32	05:51	02:05
Sets	21:38	17:23	23:10	19:35	11:45	16:41	11:48	06:41
Constellation	Cancer	Taurus	Leo	Gemini	Pisces	Taurus	Pisces	Capricornus

Visible ISS Passes

Date	Brightness	Start			Highest point			End
Date	(mag)	Time	Alt.	Az.	Time	Alt.	Az.	Time	Alt.	Az.
12 Jul	-1.4	21:21:57	10°	W	21:24:51	27°	NNW	21:27:46	10°	NNE
12 Jul	-0.4	23:01:16	10°	NNW	23:02:27	11°	N	23:03:38	10°	NNE
13 Jul	-0.6	00:38:35	10°	NNW	00:40:20	13°	NNE	00:41:41	11°	NE

Join us July 9th at 7:00 PM EDT in person at Bear Branch Nature Center, or via the Zoom links below.

Our speaker will be Rob Bovill, a software engineer for Rubin Observatory in Chile, which began surveying the southern sky this month! Turns out Rob will be in the area for the meeting and plans to attend in person. Therefore, we will be getting together with Rob for dinner prior to the meeting, for those who are interested.

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Topic: Monthly WASI Meeting
Time: July 9th, 2025 07:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

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P.O. Box 1162
Westminster, MD 21158
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Meeting Location and Times

We Meet Monthly on the 2nd Wednesday.
Back to Basics from 7:15 PM − 7:30PM.
General Meeting 7:30PM − 9:30PM

Bear Branch Nature Center Carroll County, MD
300 John Owings Rd.
Westminster, MD 21158