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
The StarBQue potluck dinner for July 30 has been postponed until the August 27 star party. The weather does not look like it will cooperate for the July event. Any […]
OCA’s Annual Officers and Trustees Election Has Begun Electronic Voting for OCA club officers and trustees is under way. Each eligible member will receive an email from the club with […]