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Horsehead Nebula

Horsehead Nebula    Photo by Randy Light, M.D.



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Sorting through link after link can be a daunting task when you are looking for a specific article from years past, and to help you locate a specific article about a specific topic, this page contains links to ALL of the newsletter articles and website pages that have been published for the Brazos Valley Astronomy Club since 2007.

*** Newsletter articles are uploaded outside of our website. To return to the BVAC website when you visit a newsletter article, you will have to click on the back arrow next to your URL bar.



Apps
iPhone App for Star Maps (Page 5)
Measuring Height of Lunar Features
Observing Applications - Don Carona
Observing Applications - Don Carona
Tracking Satellites


Astronomy, Observing
Be Prepared for Astronomy
First Encounters with Astronomy
Hawaiian Astronomy Adventure
How to Stay Warm While Observing on Cold Nights


Astrophotography
Astrophotography - Editing Software
Astrophotography - Geostationary Satellites
Astrophotography - ISS
Astrophotography Lessons by Randy Light, M.D.
Astrophotography Lessons by Tom Campbell
Astrophotography - Light Conditions
Astrophotography - Lunar Eclipse
Astrophotography - Meteors and Meteor Showers
Astrophotography - Photographing in Poor Conditions
Astrophotography - Smartphone Noise
Astrophotography - Star Trails
Astrophotography - Sunspots
Astrophotography - Super Blood Wolf Moon Eclipse
Astrophotography - Transit of Mercury
Astrophotography - Wide Field Using a Star Tracker
Photo Storage
Webcam Imaging (page 4)


Awards
Awards-Recognition
Night Sky Network Awards


Bortle Ratings
Bortle Ratings, Texas State Parks


Books
Space Exploration Books


Brazos Valley Astronomy Club
Bylaws
Contact
Dues, Annual Membership
Dues, How To Pay
Google Discussion Group
Map to Meeting Location
Meeting Dates
Meetings, Day-Time
Membership, Benefits


Comets
Comet Neowise


Conjunctions
Conjunctions, January - December


Constellations
Constellation Map for Bryan-College Station
Constellation Quilt
Stars of Constellation Andromeda
Stars of Constellation Auriga
Stars of Constellation Cygnus
Stars of Constellation Hercules
Stars of Constellation Leo
Stars of Constellation Lyra
Stars of Constellation Orion
Stars of Constellation Scorpius
Stars of Constellation Ursa Major
Stars of Constellation Virgo


Dark Sky and Light Pollution Maps
Dark Sky Maps


Educational Activities
Moon Phase
Solar System Scale


Exoplanets and Moons
Decade of Discovery
Exoplanets, Traveling To
Ocean Worlds


Links
Links, Astrophotography
Links, BVAC Members' Astronomical Websites
Links, Classified Ads
Links, Clubs/Organizations/Agencies
Links, e-Magazines/Publications
Links, Helpful
Links, Observatories
Links, Satellites/ISS
Links, Solar System


Member Spotlight
Member Spotlight - Aufderheide, Karl
Member Spotlight - Barry, David
Member Spotlight - Barry, Mitchell
Member Spotlight - Bracewell, Warren
Member Spotlight - Campbell, Tom
Member Spotlight - Carmona, Joel
Member Spotlight - Cowden, Tim
Member Spotlight - Essakiappan, Somasundaram (Page 10)
Member Spotlight - Kuhl, Derek (Page 2)
Member Spotlight - Langrish, Gloria and Art (Page 13)
Member Spotlight - Light, Randy
Member Spotlight - Sharma, Anjal (page 2)
Member Spotlight - Spearman, Mark
Member Spotlight - Sundaram, Vijay (Page 13)
Member Spotlight - Utley, Dennis (Page 1)


Messier Objects
Messier Objects List and Images


Messier Marathons
Messier Marathon 2010 (Page 8)
Messier Marathon 2011 (Page 1)
Messier Marathon 2012 (Page 15)
Messier Marathon 2018


Meteors
Meteor Observing (page 7)


Moon
Lunar Calendar - 2019
Lunar Eclipse
Moon Nicknames
Moon Phases
Supermoon Facts


NASA
Pre-NASA Memoirs - Part 1
Pre-NASA Memoirs, Part II
Spaceflight and Mission Sounds


Newsletters
Newsletters, All
2007 - Summer
2009 - Fall
2010 - Spring
2011 - Spring
2012 - Summer
2018 - Spring
2018 - Summer
2018 - Fall
2018 - Winter
2019 - Spring
2019 - Summer
2019 - Fall
2019 - Winter
2020 - Spring
2020 - Summer
2020 - Fall
2020 - Winter


Observatories-Telescopes
Apache Point Observatory (Page 9)
Arecibo Observatory Telescope Collapses
Magellan Telescope Consortium-Aggie Astronomy (Page 7)
McDonald Observatory
McDonald Observatory - Ft. Davis, Monsoon Season
McDonald Observatory - Otto Struve Telescope
National Solar Observatory (Page 2)
TAMU Observatory


Observing Conditions
Seeing and Transparency


Orrery
Orrery Makers - Staines and Son
Orrery - Mechanical Solar System Model


Outreach
Community Outreach, Overview
2018
Community Outreach - February 2018
Community Outreach - April-June 2018
Community Outreach - Mission Reclaimed, 2018
Community Outreach - Planetpalooza - 2018
Community Outreach - Winter 2018
2019
Community Outreach - July 2019
Community Outreach - Lick Creek Park Star Party - 2019
Community Outreach - October-November, 2019
Community Outreach - Pecan Trail Intermediate School - 2019
2020
Community Outreach - Jan-Feb, 2020
Community Outreach - June 2020


Physicist and Cosmologist
Stephen Hawking Memorial


Planets
Earth - North Magnetic Pole and its Movements
Mercury Facts
Mercury Transit - 2019
Saturn (page 2)
Venus Transit - 2012 (Page 9)


Programs
Solar System Ambassador Program


Satellites
Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites Encounters with M42
Retrieving APT Signal from NOAA Weather Satellite


Sky Events Calendar
Sky Events Calendar


Solar Eclipse
Solar Eclipse
Solar Eclipse - Albuquerque - 2012 (Page 6)
Solar Eclipse - New Mexico - 2012 (Page 4)


Solar System
Solar System Imbalance
Solar System Scale


Space Facts
Random Astronomy Facts
Random Space Facts
Random Space Facts
Random Space Facts
Test Your Knowledge


Space Stamps
Space Stamp Collection


Speakers-Programs at BVAC
Speaker - Holmes, Mike - DIY Projects
Speaker - Marshall, Jennifer - Watching Gold Form


Star Parties
Eldorado Star Party
Packing for Star Party
Star Party - General Procedure
Texas Star Party 2010 (Page 2)
Texas Star Party 2018
X Bar Ranch, Observing


Stars
Algol
Betelgeuse Photoelectric Photometry
Supernova in NGC 4457 Light Curve
Supernova in NGC 514


Telescopes
Building an Equatorial Platform
Building a Telescope
Celestron Edge HD 1100 Review
Celestron NexYZ Universal Smartphone Adapter Review
Collimation (page 5)
Corrector Plate, Cleaning (Page 6)
Dobsonian Scope Rebuild
Dobsonian Telescope
Equatorial Platform, Building
First Purchase (Page 9)
Meade LX200 EMC Telescope Repair
Orion Low Profile 2-Speed Focuser Modification
Orion Skyview Pro Equatorial Mount (page 4)
Polar Alignment (page 7)
Secondary Mirror Mount, Designing and Constructing
Selecting A Telescope


Weather
Weather Maps