Frank GeefayAuthor: Rob Jaworski
As a local, community based astronomy club, the San Jose Astronomical Association mainly focuses on night time activities. After all, this is when the stars are out and viewing celestial objects is best.
There are, however, opportunities to conduct astronomical viewing during the day.
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Frank GeefayEvery year, the city of San Jose holds a festival of sorts in the Cambrian Park area of San Jose, which is roughly the south- south west area of the city. It’s called Celebrate Cambrian and it was held yesterday at the Camden Community Center on Union Avenue.
The San Jose Astronomical Association was represented there with a booth that was manned by Rob Jaworski and Robert Armstrong,
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Frank GeefayAuthor: Rob Jaworski
Hello SJAA members and friends,
The San Jose Astronomical Association is a non profit 510(c)3 educational organization, bringing the science and wonderment of the science of astronomy and the night sky to the public. We encourage people to go out at night to observe firsthand the many amazing features that are visible and readily available from not just dark locations,
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Frank GeefayWe had a great general meeting for the month of July 2011 this past Saturday night, the 16th. Our guest speaker was Rick Morales of the Fremont Peak Observatory Association.
Jack Zeiders, a long time member and twice past president of the SJAA gave a few introductory remarks about the FPOA and Rick and his long term history with the FPOA.
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Frank GeefayRob Jaworski
Hello SJAA Members and Friends,
Happy Summer Solstice! The San Jose Astronomical Association will be holding a public star party this Friday, June 24 at Houge Park from about 9:30PM to midnight.
Saturn and showy objects of the summer sky will be featured.
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Frank GeefayAuthor: Rob Jaworski
The San Jose Astronomical Association has a long history of inviting guest speakers to come and give astronomy themed talks at the monthly general meetings. The list of guest speakers have ranged from fellow SJAA members discussing their experiences with certain aspects of amateur astronomy to NASA research scientists working on never-been-done-or-seen before work.
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Frank GeefayAuthor: Rob Jaworski
I am happy to report that of the seven new Orion telescopes that the SJAA acquired at the end of last year, we now have five of them out on loan. This was a long time coming, and I would like to thank not only the Board members for supporting and putting in time,
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Frank GeefayAuthor: Rob Jaworski
This is our welcome blog post, from the San Jose Astronomical Association. We have our various email lists and website, but I thought we were still missing some vital components to a true Web 2.0 presence for the club.
Here, you can subscribe to this blog where I plan to post write ups about some of our events,
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