Sacramento Valley Astronomical Society

The SVAS Observer is the official newsletter of the Sacramento Valley Astronomical Society. You can find information on upcoming club activities, special events, and articles related to astronomy in general. The SVAS currently releases an email version of our newsletter each month, which is delivered directly to members’ email boxes. The articles of each email newsletter can be found here. Click on an article to view it. The traditional PDF version (”Classic Observer”) is also still published every other month, with the same articles as the e-edition but with graphics and an astronomy calendar at the end with moon phases, oppositions and the occasional occultation.

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Articles: Except for individually copyrighted stories, permission is granted to other amateur astronomy organizations to reproduce in whole or in part for internal non-profit use, provided credit is given to the SVAS Observer and to authors of the reproduced materials.

Submit articles: Manuscripts and letters from members are welcome via email in Word or text format. Items may be emailed to the editor at lyndahall@surewest.net.

Deadline for the following month’s newsletter is always the 22nd of the month.

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Classic Observer

                 2010

• May/June 2010
• March/April 2010
• January/February 2010

                2009

• November/December 2009
• September/October 2009
• July/August 2009
• May/June 2009
• March/April 2009
• January/February 2009

E-Observer: 2010

 May

• Bigger Than Earth Day?
• Community Star Parties
• Meridian: M81 & M82
• ATM Boot Camp
• Art & Science of Desiging a Dob ( Subtitle: Am I doing this right??)
• HGO Still Snowed  In
• NASA Space Place: A Rock Hound Is Born

April

• SVAS Annual Meeting & Awards
• Election Results
• The Discovery and Rediscovery of Comet Macholz
• President’s Perspective
• Bino Voyage- Urban Astronomy
• Meridian: Beehive Cluster
• ATM Boot Camp: Build your own Dob
• ATM Boot Camp Challenge
• NASA Space Place: Deadly Planets

March

• In Memory of an SVAS Legend: Christophe Hulbe (1930-2010)
• E-Observer Update
• SVAS Election Time
• It is Time: Candidate Statement by Gallagher/Williams
• We Get It. And We Always Have.: Candidate Statement by Gorman/Heiges
• NASA Space Place: Flipping the Lights on Cosmic Darkness

January/February

• LCROSS Mission
• President’s Perspective
• Meridian
• New Planets
• Community Star Party Season Opens!
• What’s Up At HGO?
• SVAS Election News
• Things Are Looking Up
• Help Wanted!
• NASA Space Place:Building the Case Against Ozone

Click here for complete newsletter archive going back to 1998.