Welcome to the Westport Astronomical Society!

The Westport Astronomical Society (WAS) is happy to be your host every Wednesday and Thursday night from 8PM to 10PM Eastern Time (weather permitting) at the Rolnick Observatory in Westport, Connecticut. The Observatory houses a 12.5-inch f/4.8 Newtonian telescope; on moonless nights, we also use a 25-inch Dobsonian telescope. WAS holds its regular meeting at 8PM on the third Tuesday of each month in the Educational Center on the Observatory site. All are welcome to attend.

This Month's Meeting....

Please join the Westport Astronomical Society at the Rolnick Observatory, 182 Bayberry Lane, Westport on Tuesday May 20th at 8:00 PM for our next featured speaker, cosmologist David Mestre, Director of Space Science Education at the Discovery Museum in Bridgeport.

Did you know there's 4 kinds of Black Holes? We've heard about Super Massive Black Holes that sit at the very center of galaxies and you may have read about Stellar Mass Black Holes that are collapsed stars and even the possibility of Micro Black Holes that theoretically could be produced with the new particle accelerator at the Large Hadron Collider. David will be discussing the least understood flavor of Black Holes; the *Intermediate-Mass Black Hole*.

Next Month's Meeting....

In June we will have our annual picnic and elections. The date is June 17th, 2008. Bring a friend and some goodies!