Hi all astronomers, Time for another virtual star party. I will be showing all sorts of celestial delights - galaxies, nebula, clusters, comets, etc. along with any of your own favorites. Corvallis Pa

Hello fellow Astronomers, Agenda: Heart of the Valley Astronomers March Monthly meeting on March 8, 2022 at 7 pm Announcements: HVA club related business Updates: The usual star party and Astronomy cl

Good morning! Here is the link to Mel's wonderful talk on asteroid impacts at the Eugene Astronomical Society meeting this past Thursday. https://youtu.be/nSY-CmBN2eA See you at the next meeting on Ma

It's that time! Thursday night, we have Eugene Astronomical Society's Mel Bartels sharing his talk, “Asteroid Impacts: What Are the Chances?” In his own words: Asteroid impacts are the stuff of movies

Hello HVAA Members, It’s time for me to let go of my old 10” Hardin dob so I can make room for the new one. $200 with all the goodies to someone who hopefully will enjoy it as much as I did. The prima

Hello fellow Astronomers, We've had some clear (but cold!) nights in between the fog. See or digitally capture anything interesting? Agenda: Heart of the Valley Astronomers February Monthly meeting on

The meeting video is finally ready! https://youtu.be/-l6mrhOHZEE I swear, I haven't changed the settings for the Zoom meetings since the first one back a year and a half ago, and yet the result is alw

Bernie's back! It was nice to see so many faces last month (well, at least the upper half of faces) but, unfortunately, the world was its everchanging self, and we're back to hosting our meetings on Z

Hello fellow Astronomers, Heart of the Valley Astronomers monthly meeting is coming up on Tuesday January 11, 2022 at 7 pm. Our meeting agenda is as follows; Heart of the Valley Astronomers January 20

Hello fellow Astronomers, This is an update on the HVA equipment. We've accounted for most of the HVA equipment except for the following: 6" Newtonian Telescope Orion G3 imager O-III filter I am askin

Hello fellow astronomers, Since it is close to the end of another year the HVA Board of Directors has decided that it is time to take an inventory of our club's equipment. Our club has a number of use

Hello fellow Astronomers, Heart of the Valley Astronomers monthly meeting is coming up on Tuesday December 14, 2021 at 7 pm. Our meeting agenda is as follows; Heart of the Valley Astronomers December

Thanks once again to Rob Brown for that great presentation on silvering mirrors. We had a lot of questions, a lot of ideas, and even some possible plans for the future. I was a little nervous because

The November meeting of the Eugene Astronomical Society is tomorrow, TUESDAY November 16th. PLEASE NOTE THE CHANGE IN DAY FOR NOVEMBER ONLY! For this month's meeting, we are fortunate enough to welcom

Hey fellow Astronomers, I just answered an email regarding the upcoming virtual star party on Friday November 19. Here is how to get to where you can register for the event: On the parks and rec home

Hey fellow astronomers, Here is an opportunity to purchase a goto telescope. I believe it is an 8 inch. It even comes with an equatorial wedge. Pictures attached. I have a friend whose husband has gon

Hey all! For those of you at the Heart of the Valley Astronomers meeting on Tuesday November 9 you may recall me questioning the date of the November Virtual Star Party. Well, guess what? I provided t

Hello fellow Astronomers, Heart of the Valley Astronomers monthly meeting is coming up on Tuesday November 9, 2021 at 7 pm. Our meeting agenda is as follows; Heart of the Valley Astronomers November 2

Sorry, I just realized that last message was probably pretty confusing. The attached article is from Lauren Wingert's presentation LAST month. The November HVA meeting is not until NEXT week on Novemb

A reminder of the Heart of the Valley Astronomers October meeting. This month our feature presentation is Laurent Wingert, showing how she added setting circles to a very cool Mel Bartels designed tel