Club members Marcus and Tony looking prepared for their grounds-keeping duties.
Club members Rick and Jerry preparing for grounds-keeping at JBO
John, JBO Chairperson, hunts the camera man with a leaf blower.
2025's Messier Marathon winners. From left to right: Dave (not a winner, just there for support), Marcus (2nd place), Erin (3rd place), and Alex (1st place)
A happy raffle prize winner! See? Going to the General Meetings is exciting!
Liz, Kyle, Alex, Marcus, and Jerritte sit inside the Day Lodge during 2025's second rainy stargaze at John Bryan
Marcus and Jack during a chilly winter stargaze in 2024 at Aullwood Metro Park
Jack hard at work at the observatory setting up varmint protection. Steve (the boss) tells him what to do while relaxing with some coffee.
Mark, MVAS member being presented with a certificate from IDA's Traci Cardinal
The aurora captured in Kettering
John points at his Unitron while Patrick stares in (maybe) amazement during the Washington Mill Stargaze
Liz and Kyle being presented with their very first Astro League Outreach Awards!
Thomas sets up for the Washington Mill Stargaze!
Club member Jerry and a Washington Mills Parks employee just before 2024's stargaze
Marcus setting up at the Boy Scout Stargaze at Camp Birch in 2024
Several MVAS members just before mentally preparing for an ultra-packed fall stargaze out at John Bryan State Park
John and Joyce standing next to their Unitron during 2024's Cincinnati Scope Out!
John getting his Unitron ready during the Cincinnati Scope Out
Many telescopes on display during the Scope Out!
The sun is setting, but the moon is visible at the Caesar Creek Meteor Campout.
Setting up scopes during 2024's Caesar Creek Meteor Campout
Sungazing at Caesar Creek State Parking during 2024's Meteor Campout
Kyle and Liz guarding the MVAS booth during the 2024 Dayton Air Show
2024 Vandalia Sungaze—sometimes it's fun to look at the sun!
Astronomers know how to have fun!
Everyone (safely) looking at the sun during a sungaze out at the John Bryan Observatory
Joyce standing next to the Unitron during 2024's Washington Mill stargaze
Some people looking up, while other people are looking down during 2023's Cub Scout Camporama Stargaze
Club member Jack explaining something IMPORTANT during 2023's Cub Scout Camporama Stargaze
Club members huddle inside the observatory "warm room" during a chilly Members' Night.
Thomas, MVAS Treasurer, prepares the MVAS library out at the John Bryan Observatory
A mid-summer Members' Night
Cub Scouts at Cricket Holler, May 6, 2023
Chabad of Greater Dayton, December 3, 2022
Our first club outreach since the end of 2019, and the beginnings of the COVID pandemic. Fortunately, the skies cooperated wonderfully last night; the spring weather has been such a challenge. We would like to thank the Wright State University Astronomy Club for inviting us to support their university event. The crowd was great, engaged, and curious. Hearing guests gasp and wonder at the Moon, Pleiades, Orion’s Nebula, Whirlpool Galaxy, and other objects was long lost music for our ears.
With the waxing gibbous moon rising above the trees MVAS members are setting up for a stargaze on the evening of July 13, 2019, at John Bryan State Park near Yellow Springs, Ohio. The MVAS has been conducting these stargazes at the park for over 40 years. Many thanks to those who volunteer their time and support!
Twilight deepens at the start of a recent MVAS outreach event at the Eichelberger Amphitheater at The Heights on the evening of July 9, 2019. Many thanks to all who helped make this a wonderful stargaze!
Representatives of the Miami Valley Astronomical Society and the Wright Memorial Public Library during the presentation of a new library loan telescope on Saturday, November 2, 2019. The telescope, a 4.5” Newtonian, was provided by the Astronomical League and modified specifically for the library loan program by MVAS member Jim Ventling. Jim has adapted several library loan telescopes for Greene County public libraries and this is the first library loan telescope in the Miami Valley that is available outside of Greene County. We hope that it helps to introduce the wonders of the night sky to everyone that borrows it!
MVAS members hosting a public stargaze at the Wright Library in Oakwood on June 10th, 2019. Although it stayed light until fairly late our visitors enjoyed viewing the moon in the deepening twilight. Thanks to all that helped with this event!
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