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The first Celestial Searchers meeting of the 2017-2018 school year will be held at the Glenwood Library at 7PM on Sept. 25th. This month's topic is the recent Solar Eclipse. This organization invites all area school kids K-6 to attend.

There will be a public star party at Alpha Ridge Park on Saturday, 9/30 at dusk. Ed Crawford hosts. The observatory will be open rain, cloudy, or clear.

Want to find out what happened at a recent HAL outside event? Click to view all star party and outreach events for this year or any of the previous five years.

Welcome
to the Howard Astronomical League. HAL is an astronomy club located in Howard County, Maryland. We hold monthly meetings on the lower (mezzanine) level of the Robinson Nature Center in Columbia, MD, conduct public star parties at Alpha Ridge Park utilizing the "HALO" observatory, and provide community outreach events at various Howard County locations - often in public library parking lots. We invite everyone to be a part of amateur astronomy with us. You will find information about our meeting dates on the Our Meetings page. Information on membership is located on the HAL Membership page.

Join Us
for our Star Parties and Outreach events. We also provide an e-mail group for communication of timely club News and for astronomical discussions.

Information
to help plan your observing sessions is available on the calendar page or the astrolinks page -- where you can check for moonrise times, Iridium flares, International Space Station sightings, Jupiter's Great Red Spot transit and a lot more. And don't forget to check the weather before you venture out.

HAL's Observatory at Alpha Ridge Park (HALO)
is open monthly (excepting Dec through Feb). It houses HAL's 12" Newtonian telescope. Check these web pages for full details about the observatory and the Telescope. For a schedule of events at the observatory, check the HAL star parties page or the HAL calendar.

HAL is proud to have official affiliations with:

	Robinson Nature Center		Celestial Searchers Astronomy for Howard County Kids (K-8)
	Howard County Recreation & Parks Alpha Ridge Park		Astronomical League
	Howard County Conservancy		International Dark Sky Association