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Public Events
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Friday Nov 14, 2025, 7:00 PM – UW Space Place
MAS Trivia Challenge!
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Friday, Dec 12, 2025, 7:00 PM – UW Space Place
Holiday Party and Telescope Clinic
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Friday, Jan 9, 2026, 7:00 PM, UW Space Place
A Polar Telescope in the Spirit of Porter
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Friday, Feb 13, 2026, 7:00 PM, UW Space Place
Cosmos – Personal Voyages: a Conversation About Beginnings and Convergence
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Next Meeting
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MAS Trivia Challenge!
Friday Nov 14, 2025, 7:00 PM – UW Space Place
The November monthly MAS meeting will feature the long-awaited return of the MAS Trivia Contest! Test your knowledge of astronomy and nerd trivia. Have a fun time with old and new friends. Win prizes! Gain bragging rights!
Kevin Santulis and John Rummel will be your trivia hosts.
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Capitol Skies Newsletter
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In 2024, the MAS newsletter was revived and began publication again after a hiatus of 9 years. If you would like to be a contributor, contact editor Jack Fitzmier, at madisonastro.info@gmail.com.
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M31, Then and Now
The Palomar Sky Survey shot of M31 blink compared to the one from Carol Santulis’s SeeStar. Can you tell which is which? Sometimes I like to sit back and marvel at the remarkable progress our hobby has seen over the past half century or so. Technology has revolutionized everything, but perhaps nothing has changed more profoundly than astrophotography.
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Halloween in the Heavens: Deep Sky Objects that Look (or Sound) Creepy
Pareidolia is the perception of apparently significant patterns or recognizable images, especially faces, in random or accidental arrangements of shapes and lines. When you see a cloud that looks like a dog, you are experiencing pareidolia. Astronomers have long experienced pareidolia when they look at the night sky.
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History of the Madison Astronomical Society
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September, 1950 MAS meeting at the Washburn Observatory. The Madison Astronomical Society has continuously operated as a club for over 90 years. But, like many organizations, MAS has traditionally paid only passing attention to documenting its own history.
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MAS Member Photos
