Rescheduled September Meeting Cancelled October Meeting

Hope everyone came through our recent challenge OK.

 Since we got stormed out last week, we have rescheduled our September meeting to Friday, 13 Sep at 7PM at Atlantic Aviation , 6060 S. Aviation Ave., N. Charleston. This may be a better representation of our meeting location.

The plan is to discuss the planning outline for our Campus at Johns Island County Park and get moving on that effort. There will not be a formal presentation at this meeting, but we can certainly discuss any areas of interest or questions. We will also go over our schedule now that the summer season is drawing to a close.

 Since many of us will be in Columbia at our next scheduled meeting date, 3 Oct., we will not be holding a regular meeting that date, so the September meeting will be our last meeting until 7 November.

And don't forget! We will also have Astronomy in the Park at Brittlebank Park on Wednesday at sunset.

After all the stress of Hurricane Dorian, maybe it's time to...

Hurricane Cancellations This Week

Due to hurricane Dorian, Astronomy in the Park is cancelled on Wednesday, and our September
meeting on Thursday will be rescheduled for later in the month. Everyone stay safe!

August Newsletter and Upcoming Events

Our August newsletter is out - take a look. You can find all our newsletters here, or at the link on the right side of the page.

We've had a quiet few weeks recently, but that's about to change. Astronomy in the Park starts back up next week, our monthly meeting is Thursday, September 5th at 7pm, and our next Dark Night Astronomy event will be on October 5th. 

For more info about any of our events, please see our calendar to the right, or our Facebook Events page.

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The Milky Way in Pawleys Island This Weekend

News and Events This Week

There is no Astronomy in the Park this week, which is a shame, because the weather has been so nice lately. But son't worry, we'll be out at Brittlebank Park again next week.


The Lowcountry Stargazers will hold their next meeting on Thursday, August 1st at 7pm, at Atlantic Aviation, 6060 S Aviation Ave, North Charleston, SC 29406. This may be a better representation of our meeting location.

We have full slate of presentations at our meeting this summer. Nathan Woelfle will be doing a three part presentation called Understanding Scales and Measurements, Astronomy and Imaging Vocabulary.

 At our July Meeting, part one will covers telescopes and discusses aperture, focal length, focal ratio, eyepieces, field-of-view, magnification, arc minutes, seconds, and degrees.

 Part two in August covers visual and discusses seeing, transparency, darkness, and magnitude.

Part three in September covers imaging and discusses Dawes limit, image scale, resolution field-of-view, sensitivity.


In other news, there is now an astronomy group in Myrtle Beach. The Grand Strand Amateur Astronomy Club is now up and running. It looks like their first meeting is Thursday, October 24th at 5:30pm, at the Carolina Forest Library. If you want to learn more, their Facebook group is here.

July Newsletter

Our July newsletter is out - take a look. You can find all our newsletters here, or at the link on the right side of the page.