Cape Fear Astro Schedule of Events
May, 2025
Monthly Meeting
The Monthly Meeting will be held at 7:00 pm on Sunday, May 04th 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.
Dr. Sheila Kannappan will present "Chasing Awe"
After chasing last April's total solar eclipse to Texas, I decided to make 2024 the perfect Year of Awe by chasing the northern lights for two months in Minnesota in the fall. With solar activity at an 11-year maximum, I was lucky to see the aurora at least five times, depending on how you count. In this talk I'll share a taste of the wonders we witnessed and what we learned about how to maximize aurora chasing success.
“Gastronomy”
The “gAstronomy Society” meeting for this month will be at
McAlister's Deli located at
740 South College Road, Wilimington
Please join us at 5:00 pm for supper and astronomical conversation.
Public Observing
Our next Public Observing Session is
May 03 starting at 8:00 pm
and continuing until 9:30 pm.
Location: Carolina Beach State Park
We'll be observing the first quarter moon, the planets Jupiter and Mars, and some of the spring star clusters and nebulae. 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.