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Westminster Astronomical Society serves as the Astronomical Resource for Carroll County, Maryland. We have public star parties all around Carroll and the surrounding counties as well as other community service work to further educate the citizens of Carroll County about the great overhead nightly resource, our Milky Way. Astronomy is looking up!

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Next Club Observing Session
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Upcoming Meetings:

Wednesday, July 14th

Topic: 3D anaglyphs of space artifacts, by Curt Roelle
Curt will follow up Tom Renn’s June program of projected, polarized 3D images with a presentation of 3D anaglyphs of space artifacts from four different museums. 3D glasses will be provided.

All general meetings are held at Bear Branch Nature Center, starting promptly at 7:30pm. Meeting are free and open to the public.

Club News:

Club Member Skip Bird has won the Las Cumbres Award, from the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.

Check out the new asteroid (2010 AL30), came within 80,000 miles of Earth!

Fireball stopped over the skies of Westminster and Reisterstown, confirmed impact in Virginia!

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