Cape Fear Astro Schedule of Events
August, 2025
Monthly Meeting
The Monthly Meeting will be held at 7:00 pm on Sunday, August 10th 2025 in Room 212 DeLoach Hall on the campus of UNCW. We will try to "simulcast" the meeting via Zoom. For more info including the meeting link, please contact us via the contact page.
Scott Jackson, Mt. Cuba Planetarium will present "Did Gallileo Discover Neptune?"
In early 1610 Galileo used the newly invented telescope to discover, among other things, the moons of Jupiter. He would carefully observe the moons over several years and would ignore stars until he started to take notice of an object that was not a star.
“Gastronomy”
The “gAstronomy Society” meeting for this month will be at
Bdoba Mongolian Grill located at
419 S College Rd Wilmington
Please join us at 5:00 pm for supper and astronomical conversation.
Public Observing
Our next Public Observing Session is
August 30th starting at 7:45 pm
and continuing until 9:30 pm.
Location: Carolina Beach State Park
We'll be observing the first quarter moon, and the summer star clusters, plus some nebulae and double stars. If you have a telescope or binoculars, bring them!
This viewing session will canceled if it is raining at the starting time.
Please take note: For safety and consideration to others, we ask that you refrain from using flash photography after dark. This includes cell phones. There are two reasons for this.
- Once a person's eyes are accustomed to the dark it takes several minutes for them to acclimate again. Eyes acclimated to the dark can see greater detail through our telescopes.
- A flash if seen directly through the eyepiece of a telescope could be blinding. While this blindness most likely will not be permanent, it is still quite painful.
Thank you.