

The Astro Club usually holds meetings once a week or once every two weeks depending on the weather. The Astro Club is also planning on teaming up with the Photography Club to take better pictures through the observatory telescope, so be sure to keep an eye out for some cool space pictures as well. Weather hampered those plans on both occasions, but there are plans in place for more future joint meetings. Space debris and meteors passed through Earth’s atmosphere this past Friday, and the two clubs were scheduled to go view that amazing show. The club was scheduled to team up with the Mountain Club to take a hike in western Massachusetts to view a meteor shower earlier in October.
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“Now that I am a senior, I am confident in saying that I have taught myself how to function all the equipment in the dome properly.”ĬOVID-19 hampered Elam and the “Astro Club” from doing as much as they would have liked last year, but now they are ramping up activities. “It was hard learning how to work all the equipment.I had to teach myself how to function all the equipment in the dome, and how to use them properly and safely,” he said. So, Elam - an applied math major minoring in German and economics - decided to restart the club himself. There was no one left on campus to represent it. The leadership of the club graduated the year before.

“Staring at that dome as I walked to class, I was completely entranced and wanted to know what was going on up there,” he said.Īs it turned out, not very much at all was going on. The observatory dome atop the Abelson Physics Building had caught his eye, but when the club fair rolled around, he couldn’t find a representative. When Lachlan Elam ’22 was a first-year he knew he wanted to join the Astronomy Club.
