Many of HASK’s members participate in overnight camping, and are enthusiastic sky watchers. Most would like to know more about what we are seeing in the night sky, and learn how to best view, identify and appreciate what we can see with not much more than a pair of binoculars. For the May meeting, we will host Darrin Lewer from Land, Sea and Sky to talk about naked eye astronomy and using binoculars for star-gazing.
What attracted Darrin Lewer to astronomy was the peacefulness of the night sky and the ability to see things in a different way. He observed that as we are looking up into the night sky we are seeing a galaxy that is millions of years old – it is “looking back in time”. Mr. Lewer has been an amateur astronomer since high school and graduated from Texas A&M after studying history and political science; however he was a constant volunteer at the Observational Astronomy Lab while attending A & M. He is also a member of the Houston Astronomical Society and a volunteer at the George Observatory in Brazos Bend State Park.