President’s End of Year Message

Another terrific year for The Astronomical Society of New Haven has gone by.

• We celebrated the 25th Anniversary of the Connecticut Star Party. This is Connecticut’s largest astronomy event and the Astronomical Society of New Haven’s only fund raiser each year. I, along with all of the other members of our club, would like to thank everyone who attended, volunteered and donated to make this a successful event. These donations will help us continue our mission of bringing astronomy to the public.
• We had 38 public outreach events between Young’s Pond, Open House, Scout events, School events, Members Only, Ansonia Nature events. Of those we canceled 14 due to the weather, better than the past few years actually.
• With David Johnson no longer being the caretaker at the Bethany Observing Station, we have moved all of our belonging (library, scopes, historical documents etc.) to a storage facility. With no replacement caretaker, Yale is shutting the facility down for an indefinite period of time. I’ve been in communication with them regarding our future there. Based on the glacial speed that this will move at I don’t expect any news or progress until possibly spring, or maybe later in the year.
• As of now, any events at the Bethany Observatory are on indefinite hold. A new Board of Directors meeting location will also be found. We will still have our public outreach events at Young’s Pond Park and will start up a new outreach event to replace Bethany open house. Members Only observing events will be at various venues yet to be determined. Monthly General Meetings will continue at the Yale Leitner Student Observatory. We’ll keep you informed of any updates.

Thank you all for a great 2015.

Greg Barker, President

The last day of 2015 has some 78 years of club history packed up and moving to storage. Our presence at Bethany may be at an end, but it is not the end of ASNH. It is a new year and a new beginning.

Some CSP photos:

Photo by Maria Schreiner

Photo by Leo Taylor

Photo by Elliot Severn