**Cancelled** Star-B-Que and starparty
Posted on by alanThe Anza star party and Star-B-Que for this coming weekend is cancelled due to the dangerous and large fire. The area for the site is under mandatory evacuation and the […]
The Anza star party and Star-B-Que for this coming weekend is cancelled due to the dangerous and large fire. The area for the site is under mandatory evacuation and the […]
Outreach is back up and running after a hiatus. Martin Christensen has graciously volunteered to be our new Outreach Coordinator. A big welcome to Martin, who is a long term […]
Our traditional OCA Outreach program focused on events where volunteer club members brought telescopes to certain locations, generally schools or parks, for students, their families or members of the general […]
If you enjoy social media and would like to help keep our accounts active, we are seeking a social media coordinator and would love to hear from you. We have […]
The OCA is a California non-profit corporation, whose business affairs are
managed by four Officers (President, Vice President, Treasurer, and
Secretary) and seven Trustees. These people are nominated by the
membership, and …
This summer we had about 40 people join us at OVRO for an exciting event. One of the new developments was to see the DSA 110 telescope being fabricated. That […]
The current forecast is for 102F today and is currently 99 on site, there is a large fire that is uncontrolled in the Moreno Valley, north of Hemet at Gillman […]
OWENS VALLEY RADIO OBSERVATORY TRIP SCIENCE BEYOND THE BOOK June 23-25, 2023 With Dr. Mark Hodges and Dr. Doug Millar and Cecilia Caballero, MA Please join with us […]
The road has now been fixed and is passable. Thanks to Gary Schones, Bob Peck and any other members who helped out. Hi if you are planning on going to […]
Links to resources for the Gaia Space Telescope mentioned during John Hoot’s talk at the 11/11/2022 general meeting. https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia/data-release-2 https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia/data-release-3 http://www.star.bris.ac.uk/~mbt/topcat/ http://andromeda.star.bris.ac.uk/topcat/tutorial/ http://www.star.bris.ac.uk/~mbt/topcat/sun253/index.html https://www.ivoa.net/documents/TAP/ https://www.gaia.ac.uk/data/gaia-data-release-1/adql-cookbook https://www.ivoa.net/documents/latest/ADQL.html