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Greetings,


The Shoals Astronomy Club was established February 16th, 2006. We at the Shoals Astronomy club are committed to excellence in the Shoals Area in areas related to and of observance of solar system and deep sky objects. This would include:The planets, the Sun, the Moon, and any and all deep sky objects. As a blogsite, site modification and update is limited to Shoals Astronomy Club members only. Residing President and Vice President are as follows: President- Stan Peck, Vice President- Mel Blake, Secretary -Matthew Sherrill, Treasurer (temp), and club photographer - Roy Long, Public Relations Officer #1 - John Viescas, Public Relations Officer #2 - Matthew Sherrill.
The Shoals Astronomy Club is a community project, intended to support Amateur Astronomy in any way in the Shoals (Florence, Muscle Shoals, Sheffield, Tuscumbia) area. Hopefully, those reading the Shoals Astronomy Club blogs will find information relevant, educational and of extreme benefit.
We all hope to further our understandings of Amateur Astronomy and become better acquainted with our Universe.

* As of January, 2008, the Shoals Astronomy Club is now associated with Mel Blake, PhD - Astronomy, at the University of North Alabama. We currently have a link from the University of North Alabama Website, giving us a site of our on: http://www2.una.edu/planetarium/shoalsastro.html. We hope to further our relations with the University of North Alabama in any we can.

** you can contact us at - (256) 335-2516 or email us at http://www.shoalsastronomyclub@gmail.com


With all this in mind, enjoy our Shoals Astronomy Club BlogSite!!!

Shoals Astronomy Club Members at Mike Beck's house, 07/31/08

Here are a few of the members of our club that met on July 31, 2008!

not shown are: Matthew Sherrill, Ray Carpenter, Jason Green, Steve Jenkins, Adam Blacklidge

top row - Paul Daniel, Roy Long, President - Stan Peck
bottom row - John Viescas, Heath Matlock, David Hovater, Vice President - Mel Blake (UNA astronomer), Mike Beck


our members meet each month, last thursday of the month to discuss astronomy and space science related matters. We observe at least once a month as a group as well as individually, and try to support the community with sidewalk astronomy. We are looking for funding from resources and one goal is to educate ourselves and others in any way we can about the universe, whether cosmology, physics, astronomy (solar, lunar, deep sky), and become complete in what we think our individual philosphies, whether it be religion, or universal truths would have us to be.