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Globular Cluster, M30
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Upcoming Events

As one of the largest and most active amateur astronomy clubs anywhere, there's always something going on in TAAS. Here's a look at upcoming events. Unless otherwise mentioned, all events are free and open to the public so try us out. Then help us "Observe - Educate - Have Fun."

TAAS Events Status

With the change in Bernalillo County status to Turquoise the Board of Directors is working towards restarting in person events. For most events we are dependent upon the venue being open and available to us. As we replan the events we will announce them on this website.

See the separate notice "GNTO Scheduled Observing Events" for the status on GNTO events.

Keep safe and keep looking up.

Virtual Observing Session #16 - Springtime Binocular Tour

Springtime Binocular Tour

For the Virtual Observing Session #16 Dee Friesen, assisted by Becky Ramotowski and Boris Venet, has created a Springtime Binocular Tour of some wonderful objects. The details are at Springtime Binocular Tour. Enjoy!

You can access the entire library of virtual observing events here: Virtual Events Library

For questions contact Dee Friesen at taasdee@comcast.net.

GNTO Scheduled Observing Events

With Bernalillo County now at the Turquoise level the Mass Gathering Limit is 150. We will return to the "normal" Third Quarter Moon and New Moon Saturday GNTO Observing Sessions. This week GNTO will be open on Friday 7 May and Saturday 8 May. The next events will be on 5 and 12 June.

Contact Jim Fordice (gnto@taas.org) if you have any questions.

Missing the ATM Meetings and Have a Question?

Do you have a question about telescopes that you would normally take to an ATM meeting to obtain an answer? Since we cannot hold ATM Meetings right now we still may be able to assist you with your issue. Send an email to ATM Question and someone will respond to you.

ALCON 2022 to be in Albuquerque

The 2021 Astronomical League Convention (ALCON 2021) has been cancelled due to the pandemic. ALCON 2022 will be held in Albuquerque on 28 to 30 July 2022. If you are interested in helping to plan the convention please contact Jim Fordice at President@taas.org

If you have a question about ALCON 2022 use this link to send an email to 2022alcon_info@taas.org

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