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Welcome!
Welcome to the new! - improved!! - exclamation point rich!!! - web site for the Twin City Amateur Astronomers, bringing astronomy to the masses -- primarily those residing in the twin cities of Bloomington-Normal, Illinois, and the surrounding county -- since 1960. We love doing astronomy, and talking about it: so much so that sometimes it takes a good whack across the head to get us to shut up. Ouch!
On this site you can find out about our public observing sessions, held at our dark sky observatory southwest of Bloomington; our public presentations, which take place at a variety of venues usually in the Bloomington-Normal area; and even peruse our award-winning newsletter, The Observer.
TCAA Tidbits
- How time flies when you're having fun! The April 2008 Observer is now available online, right here, right now.
- Our new President is the incomparable Lee Green! Congratulations on winning what must have been a hard-fought election!
- Our next Public Observing Session (POS) of 2008 is Saturday, the 12th of April, from 8-10 PM. It's fun, free of charge, and educationall! Details are in our POS 2008 Schedule, available now.
- The TCAA is heading north! To Pontiac, that is, for an observing session extravaganza this Friday. If you're a member and want to chip in, drop us a line.
- Read all about TCAAers Lee Green, Carl Wenning, and Duane Yockey, and enjoy some magnificent images, in The Pantagraph.
- Hey, we have a new Observing page, courtesy of the indefatigable Carl Wenning.
- If you are you a teacher wanting to inspire your students in astronomy, you can get in on the fun, too!!
- Having trouble keeping track of all the TCAA goings-on? Hey, that makes 2 of us! But despair no longer: thanks to our new TCAA iCal calendar, those problems should be a thing of the past. [Mac users can not only view the calendar online, but subscribe to it too!]
- The TCAA is an institutional member of the International Dark Sky Association. Remember, only you can prevent light pollution (well, you & 300,000,000 others :-)
- Need directions to the Sugar Grove Observatory? Click on the Our Observatory link, above left, for details
- Join our e-mail list (send a blank e-mail message to TCAA-subscribe@yahoogroups.com.) to hear the latest gossip (um, we mean news :-)
- Remember, you can always join our merry throng through PayPal:
We have 50 families, around 75 members, but there's always room for more!!
