Welcome to the AANC website.

2009 Oct 22-24 - an International Year of Astronomy (IYA) Cornerstone Project. Telescope stargazing sessions observe the wonders that Italian astronomer Galileo observed 400 years ago.

Northern California/Bay Area sites:

• BERKELEY - Telescope Building Workshop and Star Party - October 23, 7pm: http://astro.berkeley.edu/~scroft/iya/
• OAKLAND - Chabot Space & Science Center (23rd and 24th) - http://www.chabotspace.org/
• SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco Amateur Astronomers
  Oct 24 on Mt. Tamalpais
  http://www.sfaa-astronomy.org/calendar.php?drawevent:950
  San Francisco Sidewalk Astronomers with Dwayne Freyberger
  9th and Irving, Saturday, October 23, 6:15pm
• College of San Mateo, Jazz Under the Stars: Oct 24, 7-10pm - http://www.collegeofsanmateo.edu/astronomy/

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