FLORIDA CALENDAR OF ASTRONOMY-RELATED EVENTS
2021
Some Astronomy clubs in Florida are conducting their monthly meetings via web conferencing apps until the pandemic ends. You may want to visit Astronomy Clubs Page and click on your local club is still doing that this month.
22 APRIL - EARTH DAY
April 24, 2021 - Fox Observatory Virtual Open House 7-11:59 p.m. Quoting their event page "Fox Astronomical Observatory Online Session is open to the Public every Saturday. You're welcome to participate via ZOOM on discussions about planets, stars, telescopes, astrophography and more! Feel free to send us questions or suggestions.
Weather permitting, watch live views through our telescopes with connected cameras and see the Cosmos!
We also have Educational lectures and science experiments! If you need high school volunteering hours, talk to us to see if we can figure out a way to do it online.
We hope to see you there electronically until it is safe again to see you in person!"
Here's a link to the South Florida Amateur Astronomers Association website.
THEY DO THIS EVERY SATURDAY, SO KEEP AN EYE OUT FOR FUTURE EVENTS IF THE WEATHER IS BAD, AND BE AWARE THAT THE FOX OBSERVATORY ITSELF IS CLOSED TO THE PUBLIC UNTIL THE PANDEMIC IS OVER.
Weather permitting, watch live views through our telescopes with connected cameras and see the Cosmos!
We also have Educational lectures and science experiments! If you need high school volunteering hours, talk to us to see if we can figure out a way to do it online.
We hope to see you there electronically until it is safe again to see you in person!"
Here's a link to the South Florida Amateur Astronomers Association website.
THEY DO THIS EVERY SATURDAY, SO KEEP AN EYE OUT FOR FUTURE EVENTS IF THE WEATHER IS BAD, AND BE AWARE THAT THE FOX OBSERVATORY ITSELF IS CLOSED TO THE PUBLIC UNTIL THE PANDEMIC IS OVER.
May 1 and 8, 2021 - Fox Observatory Virtual Open House 7-11:59 p.m. Quoting their event page "Fox Astronomical Observatory Online Session is open to the Public every Saturday. You're welcome to participate via ZOOM on discussions about planets, stars, telescopes, astrophography and more! Feel free to send us questions or suggestions.
Weather permitting, watch live views through our telescopes with connected cameras and see the Cosmos!
We also have Educational lectures and science experiments! If you need high school volunteering hours, talk to us to see if we can figure out a way to do it online.
We hope to see you there electronically until it is safe again to see you in person!"
Here's a link to the South Florida Amateur Astronomers Association website.
THEY DO THIS EVERY SATURDAY, SO KEEP AN EYE OUT FOR FUTURE EVENTS IF THE WEATHER IS BAD, AND BE AWARE THAT THE FOX OBSERVATORY ITSELF IS CLOSED TO THE PUBLIC UNTIL THE PANDEMIC IS OVER.
Weather permitting, watch live views through our telescopes with connected cameras and see the Cosmos!
We also have Educational lectures and science experiments! If you need high school volunteering hours, talk to us to see if we can figure out a way to do it online.
We hope to see you there electronically until it is safe again to see you in person!"
Here's a link to the South Florida Amateur Astronomers Association website.
THEY DO THIS EVERY SATURDAY, SO KEEP AN EYE OUT FOR FUTURE EVENTS IF THE WEATHER IS BAD, AND BE AWARE THAT THE FOX OBSERVATORY ITSELF IS CLOSED TO THE PUBLIC UNTIL THE PANDEMIC IS OVER.
At the Canaveral National Seashore star party on Jan. 21, 2017. The sky transparency was less than ideal, but the public got to see many objects.
16" Binocular Telescope at Chiefland Star Party in Northwest Florida
An amateur astronomer's observatory dome at Chiefland FL
