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Free to All: How to Use Your Telescope Class

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Friday January 3, 2020 is the next “How to Use Your Telescope Class” at the Heritage Museum in Santa Ana. If you just got a shiny new telescope for the […]

James Webb Space Telescope Tour

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Orange County Astronomers have been invited to come to Redondo Beach and tour the James Webb telescope. We get to see it from two different viewing galleries. We will be going […]

Beginner’s Class – August 2, 2019 at 7:30PM

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Introduction to Astrophotography As part of the ongoing series of beginning astronomy classes offered to the public by Orange County Astronomers, you are invited to attend a free introductory class […]

NEW WEBSITE! Important Information

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Welcome to the new website of the Orange County Astronomers!   As many of you have realized over the years we have needed a new website. Our old site was […]

Volunteers needed for the “How to Use Your Telescope” session of the beginners class

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Hi all, We need volunteers to help out on Friday July 5 from 7:30 to 9:30 if you can come and help it would be greatly appreciated. This is a […]

POWER BACK ON AT ANZA SITE

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After a lot of hard work by Edison and Anza Power, the electricity is back on for the Anza Valley, including our Anza site. They had to repair about 2 miles of transmission lines and supporting structures, a lot of it in inaccessible areas, so it was a major endeavor, but they actually got it done earlier than their announced target date, which was 8/6/18. So, if you go out to Anza, you should have power and water.

Star Parties – What, Where, and What To Expect

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By Barbara Toy, OCA President For many members, the central club activities are the monthly star parties at our Anza site and at our Orange County site, which is now […]

Volunteers needed for January 5th event

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We need volunteers to help out at the “Bring your Scope” Beginner’s Class Friday evening for two hours.

New Trustee

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I am very pleased to announce that the Board has selected Doug Millar to fill the vacant Trustee position on the Board for 2017. This means that we will have a full Board again for the next Board meeting, which is on March 5, 2017, and we are looking forward to having Doug join us then.

Many thanks to John Hoot and William Daly for volunteering for the position, though William had to withdraw his candidacy before the vote because of other commitments. We are hoping they will both continue to be involved in the club and interested in its management, and that we may see either or both of them on the Board at some point in the future.

Barbara Toy
OCA President

Anza Site Reopened

Posted on by tepiastar

The well service that installed our new well pump and the new water storage tank on the Anza site has corrected the plumbing problem that caused the lack of water at the observatory and Anza House. Water should now be going to both of them, and everything should be back to normal. If anyone observes any problem with the water while out there, please let Alan Smallbone or me know about it.
Barbara Toy
OCA President