Monthly Meetings
Open To The Public & Free To Attend
General membership meetings are open to the public, and are held at Scobee Education Center and Planetarium on the second Friday of each month. Scobee Education Center and Planetarium is located on the Campus of San Antonio College – the main campus on San Pedro. Free parking is available in the parking garage.
Doors Open at 6:30 PM. Meeting Commences at 7:00 PM.
Scobee Education Center and Planetarium
1198 San Pedro Ave.
San Antonio, TX 78212
Coming Up:
October 9, 2026:
May Speaker: Dr. Stephen Fuseller
Meeting Program: Space Radiation Hazards to Humans
Dr. Stephen A. Fuselier is both a research scientist and a major scientific leader in U.S. heliophysics. His specialty is understanding how plasmas, magnetic fields, and energetic particles behave throughout the solar system, using data from spacecraft and the instruments built to make those measurements. His work examines the interaction between the solar wind and planetary magnetic environments.As of 2026, Dr. Fuselier is Vice President of SwRI’s Space Science Division. He joined SwRI in 2011 and previously served as program director, director, executive director, and acting vice president of the division. He is also an adjunct professor at UT San Antonio, working through the SwRI–UTSA graduate program in physics and space physics.
Dr. Fuselier has authored or co-authored more than 610 papers and publications. An especially notable part of his recent career was his role as co-chair of the National Academies’ Solar and Space Physics Decadal Survey. The survey sets out research priorities for the field for the 2024–2033 period and helps inform federal science-agency investments.
Upcoming Meeting Programs:
Date Speaker Subject/Title9 Oct 2026 Dr. Stephen Fuseller Space Radiation Hazards to Humans
13 Nov 2026 Dr. Chris Packham James Webb Space Telescope Update
Past events:
March Joint Meeting at the Scobee Planetarium “Through the Glass Ceiling” by Col. Eileen Collins.
February 11, 2022 “Iogroups: a Howto” by our very own Dwight Jurena.
January 14, 2022 “Introduction to Lunar and Planetary Imaging” by our own Jay Messeroff.
13 March 2020 Mars by Dr. Kim Arvidsson Dr. Arvidsson is an Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Schreiner University in Kerrville TX.
Meeting Structure:
Meetings usually start with a social time at 6:30 PM, on the second Friday of every month (with the exception of December, when we hold our Christmas Dinner for members and their guests). If you come earlier you can do a little socializing.
We usually start our program at 7:00 PM. We begin the General Meeting with some quick introductory announcements followed by the Main Presentation (lecture or video presented by guest experts or club members).
The next part of the meeting usually includes:
- Show and Tell, where members share gadgets, books, techniques, etc.
- The Observing Report, describing the astronomical events for the next month.
- The Sky Tour, describing what’s where in the sky for the next month.
- Club business, during which the officers make reports about their activities and areas of responsibility.
There’s a good deal of socializing before and after meetings, allowing members to put faces with the voices they’ve heard in the dark at observing sessions.
