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We are now accepting applications for Van Nattan-Hansen-Anderson Scholarship recipients for 2024.

Established in 1973, the Denver Astronomical Society’s Van Nattan-Hansen-Anderson Scholarship (VNHA) supports graduating high school and undergraduate college students majoring in astronomy and the physical sciences. Each year, scholarships may be awarded to students in good academic standing who have demonstrated intent and merit to pursue a career in the physical sciences or mathematics.… Continue reading.

We still have plenty of eclipse glasses left for sale. However, we have had to disable the online sales to ensure we don’t leave our recipients’ eclipse experience at the mercy of the US Post Office.

Moving forward, our eclipse glasses will be available for sale in person at our event at DU’s historic Chamberlin Observatory.… Continue reading.

By Mike Hotka

Over the past few months, I have shared my observing process with you. This process is what I use today to plan, execute and record my observing outings.

A simple way to get started observing is to find a pre-made list of objects to observe and then, one by one, check the objects you observe off this list.… Continue reading.

By Mike Hotka

In this continuing series of articles, I want to discuss contingency plans. When I am having trouble with my smart phone, you will often hear me say, “Technology is wonderful when it works!”. Those of us who are engineers, can make a living figuring out why specific technology is not working and getting it fixed for the end user.… Continue reading.

By Mike Hotka

At the end of last month’s article, I left you driving home from your observing location after a successful night of observing. Now I’ll discuss what I do after I get home. I have a few more tasks to do before I consider this observing session complete.… Continue reading.

By Mike Hotka

You are ready to drive to your chosen observing location. At this point, you have prepared the list of objects you will observe. You have been watching the weather of your observing location and picked a night that will be clear and transparent.… Continue reading.

Thank you to Denver Astronomical Society and Girl scout troop 67610 on September 22nd at DU’s Historic Chamberlin observatory! The event featured a presentation on different aspects of astronomy from Ersel Serdar, a member of AstroGroup Denver, DAS’s teen outreach group.… Continue reading.

We received the following thank you letter for an Outreach Event we held at Roxborough State Park last month. Thanks to our own Steve Barr, Sam Brandt, Seth Weisbrook, and Ed Morrell for making this a success.

This is why we do what we do!… Continue reading.

It is with heartfelt sadness that we report the passing of longtime DAS member John Anderson, who specialized in solar astronomy and spectroscopy.

John Edgar Anderson, 85, of Nederland, CO, passed away on May 4, 2023 at Boulder Community Hospital.… Continue reading.

By Peter Higgins, PhD

Isaac Newton lived from 1642 (the year Galileo died) until 1727. He was considered both the first of the age of reason, joining the likes of Laplace, and the last of the alchemists-astrologers who bedazzled Europe’s royalty.1

He was a lonely figure, and a mystic, envied by many.… Continue reading.