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General Information
The Lehigh Valley Amateur Astronomical Society, Inc. (LVAAS) is a public-oriented nonprofit educational organization dedicated to serving community interests in astronomy and related fields. Established in 1957 by local amateurs in the Allentown-Bethlehem area, the Society has been in continuous operation for almost four decades.
Meetings
General Meetings are held at 7 p.m. the second Sunday of each month at the Society's South Mountain Headquarters, except in August, when the Society convenes at Pulpit Rock Astronomical Park. Visitors are always welcome to attend. After general business is conducted, programs typically feature professional or amateur astronomers as well as occasional planetarium presentations.
Activities
LVAAS offers an observational astronomy course, mirror grinding classes, a stargazers planetarium program, public star parties, as well as an Asatronomy Day open house.
The club has two observatory locations: South Mountain, the LVAAS Headquarters in the Allentown area; and Pulpet Rock Astronomical Park in the Blue Mountains of Berks County, PA. The latter is the Society's dark sky site which is located 25 miles west of Allentown between Lenhartsville and Hamburg, PA.
How to get in touch
Write:
Lehigh Valley Amateur Astronomical Society, Inc.
East Rock Road
Allentown, PA 18103
Phone:
(610) 797-3476
E-mail:
Director: Peter Detterline - director@lvaas.org
Assistant Director: Gary Moore - asst-dir@lvaas.org
Secretary: Jennifer Dreyer - secretary@lvaas.org
LVAAS maintains its own Website.
To go there, just click
LVAAS WEB
Other Items of Interest
The South Mountain location has three observatories located on a one acre mountain-top site which has a 12.5" Cassegrain, a 12.5" Newtonian, and a 6" refractor.
The Pulpit Rock Astronomical Park, an excellent mountain-top site sitting 1,600 feet above sea level near the Appalachian Trail, has five observatories with an 8" refractor, a 20" Schmidt-Cassegrain reflector, a 12.5" Newtonian, a 17.5" Dobsonian reflector, with a 40" Cassegrain telescope currently under construction.
Maintained by BDM
njastro@erols.com
Page last updated 7/18/97