WASI Monthly Members Meeting

Monthly members meetings are held at 7:00 PM Eastern time on the second Wednesday of the month at the Bear Branch Nature Center, 300 John Owings Rd. Westminster, MD and online via Zoom. There’s a demo or class at 7:00 PM, followed by the featured guest speaker presentation at 7:30 PM.

Although the new generation of revolutionary “smart scopes” have built-in catalogs and “GoTo” capabilities, not everyone owns one. Those with traditional instruments must use charts, their knowledge of the heavens, a little elbow grease and a good finder scope for locating faint objects. But there is another method, drifting, which provides a reliable process for finding faint deep sky objects using nearby easy-to-find stars, or even other deep sky objects, for locating them. Curtis Roelle will describe the Drifting method at the October 14 meeting. (Note: This is a repeat of a presentation given in 2022.)

After the presentation, members shall be given an opportunity to share their images and travel experiences from both August eclipses: 1) A solar eclipse (total eclipse was visible in Europe) and 2) A very deep partial lunar eclipse. Images can be shared from attendees’ laptops and cell phones by dial in for the ZOOM! meeting.

(If you will be speaking at one of our meetings, check out this for information about how to connect to our Zoom).

Meeting ID: 879 7384 1396
Passcode: 965007

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Previous Meetings

You can see videos of previous meetings on our Youtube channel here