Meetings
Meetings are held the second Wednesday of each month (except April and July) at 7:30 PM at the Kirkland Senior Center, 2 Mill St., Clark Mills, NY (directions and map) unless otherwise noted. The April meeting is held on a Saturday evening in conjunction with a social event at a local restaurant. The July Star-B-Que is held on a Sunday evening. All meetings are open to the public. Guests are encouraged to attend. Refreshments are provided by MVAS members.
Scheduled Meetings and Programs for 2023
| Jan 11 | Virtual Zoom Meeting. Members will receive invite link. 7:30 pm Program: "2022: The Year In Review - Astronomy & Mohawk Valley Weather" Presented by David Bishop, Astronomy Section of the Rochester Academy of Science and Perry Pezzolanella, MVAS |
| Feb 8 | Virtual Zoom Meeting. Members will receive invite link. 7:30 pm Program: "The Wacky World of Exoplanets and How We Discover Them" Presented by Dennis Conti, AAVSO |
| Mar 8 | Virtual Zoom Meeting. Members will receive invite link. 7:30 pm Program: "The Many Ways of Imaging Variable Stars: It Doesn't Need to be Rocket Science or Cost a Bundle!" Presented by Peter Bealo, Chair Instrumentation and Equipment Observing Section of AAVSO |
| Apr 12 | Kirkland Senior Center. 7:30 pm Program: "Options for Observing the April 8, 2024 Total Solar Eclipse, both within Upstate New York and Elsewhere" Information about the path, observing locations, weather conditions, equipment, and travel for the April 8, 2024 total eclipse of the Sun. Presented by Dan Schneiderman of the Rochester Museum & Science Center (RMSC) and MVAS Members |
| May 10 | Kirkland Senior Center. 7:30 pm Program: "An Antarctic Odyssey: Winter-Over at South Pole Station" Presented by John W Briggs, Curator at the Astronomical Lyceum, Magdalena, New Mexico |
| Jun 14 | Kirkland Senior Center. 7:30 pm Program: "Venus: The Deadly Pressurized Inferno" Presented by Perry Pezzolanella |
| Jul 16 | Waterville Library & Barton-Brown Observatory. 5:00 pm Program: "Star-b-que" Presented by MVAS. For club members and their guests |
| Aug 9 | Kirkland Senior Center. 7:30 pm Program: "The Theory of Everything – So Far" Presented by Peter Costianes, Physicist-retired, Air Force Research Laboratory, Rome, NY and MVAS |
| Sep 13 | Ho Tung Visualization Lab. Colgate University, Hamilton, NY. 7:30 pm Program: "Following the Shadow of the Moon: Cultural Perspectives from around the globe" Presented by Joe Eakin, Technical Director and Eclipse Ambassador Ha-Eun Choi |
| Oct 11 | Kirkland Senior Center. 7:30 pm Program: "Exploring Ancient Solar System Relics: NASA's OSIRIS-REx and PSYCHE Missions" Presented by Carol Higgins, NASA Solar System Ambassador, MVAS member |
| Nov 8 | Kirkland Senior Center. 7:30 pm Program: "How Did Voyager Take Photos?" A History of Light Detection in Astronomy from Clyde Tombaugh to James Webb Presented by Russell Arcuri, MVAS |
| Dec 13 | Kirkland Senior Center. 7:30 pm Program: "Members' Show 'n Tell" Presented by MVAS Members |
| Jan 10 | Virtual Zoom Meeting. Members will receive invite link. 7:30 pm Program: "2023: The Year In Review - Astronomy " Presented by David Bishop, Astronomy Section of the Rochester Academy of Science |
| Jun 12 | Kirkland Senior Center. 7:30 pm Program: "Mercury: New Messages From An Old World" Presented by Perry Pezzolanella, MVAS |