Cape Fear Astro Schedule of Events
March, 2025
Monthly Meeting
The Monthly Meeting will be held at 7:00 pm on Sunday, March 9th 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.
Jon Stewart-Taylor will present " Telescope Limiting Magnitude and Limiting Magnification"
Telescopes of different sizes have different characteristics. Jon will talk about how telescope sizes determine which objects you can see.
“Gastronomy”
The “gAstronomy Society” meeting for this month will be at
Pho Basil located at
740 College Rd, Wilmington, NC 28403
Please join us at 5:00 pm for supper and astronomical conversation.
Public Observing
Our next Public Observing Session is
March 8th starting at 6:15 pm
and continuing until 9 pm.
Location: Carolina Beach State Park
We'll be observing the first quarter moon, the planets Venus, Jupiter, and Mars, and some of the winter 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.