CMU Astronomy Club

10/21/2022

Last Sunday Astro Club took a Fall Break trip to Cherry Springs, a dark sky campsite in Pennsylvania. Lucky for us the weather was clear for a few hours after sunset, and we were able to see the milky way and go observing!

10/20/2022

10/08/2022

Had a blast at Allegheny Observatory last night. There's a lot of interesting history, as well as some pretty cool telescopes. It was a shame it was cloudy, guess we'll have to come back sometime!

08/31/2022

Astronomy Club efforts to produce photos of astronomical objects

06/16/2022

Someone remembered this account exists! Astroc 2021-2022

11/08/2019

This Monday, November 11th, we will be viewing the transit of Mercury, which happens on average 13 times every CENTURY. Our observatory will be open on the roof of Scaife Hall to the public from 7:34 AM to 1:05 PM. Come out to this awesome event!

09/10/2019

There is a Dark Skies Book Signing this Wednesday in 7316 Wean Hall from 4:30-6pm. If you are interested, feel free to come. Information is below.

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Dark Skies Book Signing
Announcing a reading/signing event on Wednesday, the 11th of September in 7316 Wean Hall 4:30 - 6 pm for Triangulation: Dark Skies, a themed anthology.

Edited by Diane Turnshek (CMU Physics) and Scotland author Chloe Nightingale, the anthology contains 21 speculative fiction stories about stars and light pollution, which is unnecessary artificial light at night that robs us of the stars and adversely affects Earth's nighttime ecosystem. Misdirected light wastes billions of dollars a year, while raising our carbon footprint. Studies of even low levels of light at night show that it may be harmful to human health. See how 21 genre authors incorporated starlight into their speculative fiction stories!
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1082094439/ref=rdr_ext_tmb
$17.00 paperback, $2.99 e-book

Hear a brief update on the Metro21 nighttime city mapping project (https://www.cmu.edu/metro21/news-and-events/metro21-podcast-diane-turnshek-talks-light-pollution-and-the-night-sky.html) and then listen to a reading by Dark Skies author Mary Soon Lee, one of the world's premier astronomy poets.

Mary Soon Lee was born and raised in London, but now lives in Pittsburgh. She writes both fiction and poetry, and has won the Rhysling Award and the Elgin Award. Her work has appeared in Analog, Daily Science Fiction, F&SF, Science, and Strange Horizons. Her book Elemental Haiku, containing haiku for each element of the periodic table, is forthcoming from Ten Speed Press on October 1, 2019. She has an antiquated website at www.marysoonlee.com and tweets at .

Samples of Mary’s work can be seen here:
Elemental Haiku https://vis.sciencemag.org/chemhaiku/
"How to be a Star" https://uppagus.com/poems/soon-lee-star/
"How to Thank the Earth" https://uppagus.com/poems/soon-lee-thank/
"New Year's Resolutions" http://www.sfpoetry.com/sl/edchoice/42.1-1.html
"How to Seduce Apophis" http://www.abyssapexzine.com/2019/01/how-to-seduce-apophis/

Triangulation: Dark Skies is free (only during the month of September) for anyone who might want to review it.
https://www.netgalley.com/catalog/book/172678

Enjoy!

Who is holding the stars hostage? Don't we all have the right to star-filled nights? Do you miss our Milky Way Galaxy arcing overhead? Explore answers in these creative tales of human (and alien) reaction to the yin-yang of darkness and light. Travel the high ways with lovers in a hand-built rock...

05/11/2019

Booth and Buggy Awards Ceremony

05/09/2019

The opening of our first meeting and the closing of our last meeting of the year. We hope you all had as good a year as we did, and we'll see you back in the fall for another wild ride!