Welcome to the AANC website.

College of San Mateo
live observatory feed - webcam schedule

AANC ANNUAL MEETING
was Saturday, September 12, 2009
Westin SFO Hotel, Millbrae

Key AANC Functions include:

• annual conferences
• a Northern California astronomy resource guide
• presenting awards
• a calendar of astronomy events
• Astronomy Day
• Messier Marathon
• lots more

• Articles in Sky and Telescope and Astronomy.com
• 2007, WAA G. Bruce Blair Award winner
• Carter's Milky Way photo graces the web sites of International Planetarium Society and the NASA Kepler mission

2009 IYA Calendar
(by Andy Fraknoi)

How to Organize and
Run a Public Star Party

Weather in Northern California

Observing/Star Parties:

• JPL Amateur Astronomy Page (Jane Houston-Jones)
• The Astronomy Connection (TAC)
• Golden State Star Party
• Yosemite Star Parties

Observing Sites