Welcome to the home page of the Willingboro Astronomical Society. Our club is in its 43^rd year of serving both the public and the amateur astronomers of the Delaware Valley. We have a long history of public education, star parties, interesting meetings, in-depth training and experienced leadership.

President: Vice President: Secretary: Treasurer:

Lloyd Black Joe Stieber Jeremy Young Gary Weinstein

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Announcements   Last Update: Wednesday, September 08, 2010

Club member Drew Maser alerted fellow members of the CalSky prediction that around 10:27 pm on Friday night, August 20, 2010, the International Space Station would transit the gibbous Moon for observers along a line crossing Southern New Jersey. The informal meeting for that night convened with fifteen members near the line at Kite Field in Wharton State Forest outside Atco, and a second group of nine, mostly imagers, gathered in Winslow. The transit of the ISS silhouette (it was in earth's shadow) literally lasted for only a second, but everyone was able to see it visually and/or photograph it. Here's an excellent image by club member Jim Mack from Winslow. It's a composite of 17 frames from a 52-second HD video taken with a Canon EOS T1i (500D) digital SLR camera through a 12-inch Meade LX200 SCT telescope (click the image for a larger version). Club members David Lerner, Jerry Lodriguss and Steve Mattan also captured some fine images.