Jun 9, 2011

In April of this year AOF video production crew visited 2011 NEAF – one of the largest Telescope Shows in the world.    We met a great deal of interesting people and made some new friends.  For those of you who missed it, here is the video that gives you a glimpse of what it is like to attend an Astronomy Expo.  We hope to see you all back in New York...

Our good friend, Scott Kardel of Palomar Observatory had put together this short but sweet demonstration on the importance of shielding lights at night. Please check it out:

A real time recreation of Yuri Gagarin’s pioneering first orbit, shot entirely in space from on board the International Space Station. The film combines this new footage with Gagarin’s original mission audio and a new musical score by composer Philip Sheppard. For more information visit...

Jan 24, 2011

Welcome to an exciting new year of astronomy! Thank you for showing interest in the activities of the Astronomy Outreach Foundation. This new group got its organizational start in 2010 and looks forward to setting activities into high gear in the coming year. For the first time ever, astronomy has an industry group to promote the hobby and spread enthusiasm...

Dec 20, 2010

Download original Sky & Telescope Magazine article (PDF) An astronomy club’s outreach program gets telescopes into peoples’ hands. “The strongest thing that’s given us to see with’s a telescope. Someone in every town seems to me owes it to the town to keep one.” The words of Robert Frost in The Star Splitter inspired the New Hampshire...