The UMBC Astronomy Club was formed at the beginning of the Fall 2009 semester, and held its first meeting on Sept 9th. The students in the club maintain their own WWW site (site external to UMBC: UMBC is not responsible for the content).

The idea of the club is both to make observations using UMBC's 0.8m telescope (that is in the dome on the top of the Physics Bldg!), and to hear talks from students & local experts on a variety of astronomical and/or the latest astrophysical issues.

Please contact the club's president Greg Aring (aring1@umbc.edu) if you interested in becoming a member.

Useful Resources

• Current Weather conditions at UMBC
• Past Meetings
• Other Club Resources

Current Conditions:
Several of the following applications require you to set/input the geographical coordinates of the UMBC telescope. These are
      Lon: 76^O 42' 34.3" W       Lat: 39^O 15' 16.3" N

• The UMBC Physics Department's Home Page provides a summary of the current weather conditions, and a link to the weather.umbc.edu site which contains links to other information such as the latest radar loops, links to longer term forecasts etc