Welcome to the
MILWAUKEE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
18850 Observatory Road
New Berlin, WI 53151
(262) 542-9071

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1/25/2010 - Added 2010 Public Night Schedule and Flyer! Upcoming Events Wild Winter Nights Date: Saturday, February 6 Location: Retzer Nature Center, S14 W28167 Madison Street in Waukesha. Time: 6:00 - 9:00 pm MAS Members who bring their telescopes and let the public view through them are admitted for free. Without a telescope, $2.00. Tim Burrus reports that last year we had about 400 people looking through our telescopes. February Board Meeting Date: Friday February 19 Location: Horwitz Planetarium, Retzer Nature Center, Waukesha Time: 7:00 PM February General Meeting Planetarium Show Date: Friday February 19 Location: Horwitz Planetarium, Retzer Nature Center, Waukesha Time: 8:00 PM Show Your MAS Pride by ordering MAS merchandise at Cafepress Click Here to Shop For those of you who are interested in trying out a really neat and complex space flight simulator download the free software from: http://www.orbitersim.com

The Milwaukee Astronomical Society has a respectable antiquity, dating back to 1932.  Among its early members were none other than Walter Scott Houston and Ed Halbach.  MAS members are loyal, many retain their membership even when they move out of state.  We even have members living in Colorado and Arizona! 

The Society possesses a fine observatory and has an active observing program.  It sponsors special projects to introduce members to various aspects of astronomy and special events which cover one-time observing opportunities.  Activities include variable star observing, eclipsing binaries, RR Lyraes, Asteroid Occultations, Lunar Grazes, and much, much more.  The club actively promotes hands-on astronomy and public outreach. 

The observing page provides positional and physical ephemerides of the Sun, Moon, and planets to help members find the planets and interpret what they are seeing. 

Through the link to SSEC in Madison, you can get satellite pictures of Wisconsin showing cloud cover in daylight and IR at night.  The pictures are usually less than fifteen minutes old.  

New members are always welcome and take advantage of the knowledge gained and shared by more experienced observers.  The club possesses several telescopes and three CCD cameras which are available to all members.  Many members are avid astrophotographers using film and CCD imaging. Some of the images taken by MAS'ers are displayed in the Showcase. 

Click on the links on the left panel of the page to learn more about the MAS. Those links will take you to pages which will explain the benefits of membership, how to join the MAS, who the officers and staff are, forthcoming meetings and calendar of events, the Society's organization, special observing events and Club projects, and our observatory in which we take special pride.

Come in, relax, browse around, enjoy yourself.  That's what amateur astronomy is all about!

Clear Skies.....