Green Mountain Astronomers

Our official club name is Green Mountain Astronomers (formerly The Green Mountian Alliance of Amateur Astronomers). We are based in Rutland county (Vermont). We are a small group of local area astronomers that provide a number of public outreach events each year, organized by the club's founder, Ron Lewis of Brandon. We have provided observing sessions to schools, camps, and have had members setup telescopes at community functions. We have been most noticed for our events at the Hubbardton Battlefield, which has grown to 4 events a year now. Our other major undertaking, has been the restoration of the 6" Unitron refactor telescope and observatory at the Castleton University. (Formerly Castleton State College).
We are an informal club, as we do not have meetings or dues. We consider ourselves an "observing club" and focus much of our time with various outreach activities, viewing the night skies with our telescopes, and more recently, solar observing. We welcome anyone to come to our events, and especially welcome those that wish to be a functioning part of our group. Many of our members have years of experience, and we are glad to have people join us at any experience level, or no experience at all. We love helping people get started in astronomy.
Keep an eye on this page by liking it, as we will be posting our activities and other celestial tidbits of interest!