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.
Scobee Education Center and Planetarium
1198 San Pedro Ave.
San Antonio, TX 78212
Coming Up:
April Speaker: David Wickholm
“Using Our Eyes Better in Visual Astronomy”
Our eyes are an amazing piece of engineering. Each has a field of view over 120 degrees wide, operates over 13 orders of magnitude of intensity, and includes over 100 million individual detectors. David will explain how to take advantage of these features to see more when looking through a telescope.
The doors open at 6:15 and the presentation begins at 7:00pm. Come early to meet some of the membership and astronomy enthusiasts, have a cup of coffee and a snack or two so we can catch up.
Come and join us on April 10th.
Upcoming Meeting Programs:
Date Speaker Subject/Title
8-May-2026 Dr. Tracy Becker Comet 3i Atlas and Europa-UVS Observations
Coming Soon
Dr. Chris Bert: Exploring Mercury
Dr. Chris Packham: JWST Update
Dr. Stephen Fuseller: Space Radiation Hazards to Humans
Past events:
March Joint Meeting at the Scobee Planetarium “Through the Glass Ceiling” by Col. Eileen Colins.
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. Arvisson is an Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Schreiner University in Kerrville TX
Meeting Structure
Meetings usually start with a social time at 6:15 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.
