The Tucson Astronomy Festival of 2025 will be held on March 22nd at the Brandi Fenton Memorial Park. The location offers a lot of space for club members to create telescopes to look at. Credit: Taaa
Mark your calendars for Saturday 22 March. It was then that the Tucson Amateur Astronomy Association (TAAA) will be in force to show you the wonders of the skies at the annual Tucson Astronomy Festival. The event will be held at the Brandi Fenton Memorial Park, Ramada 1, 3482 E. River Road, Tucson.
Things will start at 15:00 MST. Since then at 18:30, the members of the Taaa will lead a safe sun observation. If you have never seen the sun through a telescope, this is your opportunity for a close appearance. Some telescope filters will reveal sunscreen, while others more exotic will allow you to see prominences and solar rockets.
So, from 19:30 to 21:00, the stars will come out. And not only the stars, but the planets, the nebulae, the star clusters and the galaxies. Taaa members will have many telescopes set up to see celestial objects such as Mars, Jupiter, the Orion nebula, the Galaxy Whirlpool and much more.
Other activities will include interactive astronomy exhibitions (from 15:00 to 18:00) and, at 18:30, the designs of the doors prize. Maybe you will win the first prize: a small telescope. But you must be present to win.
A nice appearance of the Tucson Astronomy Festival is that you can bring your telescope to get help to learn to configure and manage it. So, if that area you got for Christmas has Flumtuxed, here’s the possibility of having an expert to help you understand it.
The Tucson Astronomy Festival is sponsored by TAAA. Note, however, that this event depends on time. Follow the TAAA Facebook page for real -time updates.
Here are some connections to this great astronomy club:
Website: www.tucsonastronomy.org
Facebook: www.facebook.com/tucsonastronomy
Instagram: www.instagram.com/tucsonastronomy/
YouTube: www.youtube.com/@tucsonamateurastronomyassa2702
I will be there. I hope to see you.
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