PRESCOTT AStronomy Club
Exploring the Night Sky Together
Our Mission:
- Bring together people interested in astronomy
- Help them develop their astronomical skills and knowledge
- Encourage education about and public interest in astronomy
2025 Prescott Astronomy Club meetings and events:
March 5 @ 6p: Club Meeting – “Bursting with Stars: Exploring stars, gas, and dust with HST and JWST”,
Dr. Hwihyun Kim, NOIRLab
April monthly club meeting CANCELED (due to library maintenance)
April field trip to Lowell Observatory. Details coming soon for club members.
May 7 @ 6p: Club Meeting – “How Exotic Materials Enable Exotic Geology in the Outer Solar System”,
Dr. Will Grundy, Lowell Observatory
June 4 @ 6p: Club Meeting – “Microgravity experiments”, Jennifer Hanley, Lowell Observatory (more details to come)
Monthly club meetings, Starry Nights star parties, and solar/lunar viewing events are open to the public.
Club meetings are held from 6p-8p @ Prescott Public Library, Founders Suite
All telescope viewing events as well as private star party events are weather dependent.
Cancelations will be noted above and sent via email to club members.
Club Merchandise is Back!!
Its been many years since the last club merchandise was available, and now our logo gear is back for a limited time.
T-shirts $30 – Gray short sleeve with pocket
Hats $25 – Gray baseball style with adjustable strap
Mugs $25 – White with club logo (*coming soon*)
These club merchandise items will be for sale at all club events (except not at the Prescott Public Library). Come out to a star party or any of our events to view and purchase the items.
If you want an item and are not attending one of the club events contact Brian Blau (contacts page).
Upcoming Event Descriptions
Club Meeting
Wednesday, March 5, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Bursting with Stars: Exploring stars, gas, and dust with HST and JWST
By combining HST and JWST data with observations from existing ground-based telescopes, we are gaining insights into how stars, gas, and dust interact to shape the stellar populations within galaxies.
Dr. Hwihyun Kim is Scientist at NOIRLab (NSF National Optical Infrared Research Laboratory) located in Tucson, AZ, and Instrumentation Program Scientist at International Gemini Observatory.
in 13 days, 5 hours, 24 minutes
Club Meeting
Wednesday, June 4, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Microgravity experiments
Jennifer Hanley, Lowell Observatory
(more details to come)
in 3 months, 12 days, 5 hours, 24 minutes
April Club Meeting (CANCELED)
Wednesday, April 2, 2025 at 6:00 PM
The April meeting has been canceled due to maintenance at the library.
in 1 months, 10 days, 5 hours, 24 minutes
Club Meeting
Wednesday, May 7, 2025 at 6:00 PM
How Exotic Materials Enable Exotic Geology in the Outer Solar System.
In different planetary settings, nature has distinct materials to work with. These
lead to wildly divergent geological processes across the solar system.
Laboratory studies of the materials can shed light on how the
mysterious landscapes that have been explored by NASA's robotic
spacecraft came to be.
Dr. Will Grundy is a planetary scientist at Lowell Observatory and a co-
investigator on NASA's New Horizons and Lucy missions. He studies icy,
outer Solar System objects using a variety of experimental techniques,
including space- and ground-based imaging and spectroscopy, as well as
laboratory studies of low temperature materials.
in 2 months, 15 days, 5 hours, 24 minutes