Monthly Archives September 2023

Moon Over Monona Terrace

Friday, October 20, 2023, 7:00-9:30pm

8.8 day old moon

FREE and Open to the Public

For more information, and to get your FREE tickets, visit: https://www.mononaterrace.com/event-group/moonmononaterrace/

FREE ticket required for admission. Tickets are required for all attendees; subject to venue capacity and are issued on a first come first serve basis. There is a limit of 8 tickets per patron.

Explore the surface of the Moon and other celestial objects through telescopes provided by MAS members.

Young and old alike are invited to view the Moon and other celestial objects, such as Jupiter and Saturn, through a multitude of different telescopes provided by the Madison Astronomical Society (MAS)...

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MAS October Meeting

Increasing Vision

Rick Wayne, October 2023 MAS Speaker

A photographer’s personal journey into deep-sky astrophotography, from mild interest through the slow but inexorable descent into madness. Lessons learned. Pitfalls explored (from the bottom). Equipment choices, techniques and resources for beginners: how to put a toe in the deep-sky or planetary waters and avoid most of the piranhas.


Rick Wayne is a husband, a dad, and a software engineer for UW Soils, where he writes agronomic decision-support software (motto: “Sweet Bog where do I put all these tons of cow poop?”)

He is an Outdoor Emergency Care instructor and runs the regional instructor-development program for the Ski Patrol, and holds National Appointment #11910...

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