Welcome to the homepage of the Eastern Missouri Dark Sky Observers. Our club is a NON-PROFIT organization in accordance with Section 501(c)(3) of the U.S Internal Revenue Code of 1954 and we are registered in the state of Missouri as a non-profit organization. We serve the East Central Missouri area through astronomy education and observing sessions. Please explore the menu links at the left for more information about astronomy and EMDSO.
Our November 2021 business meeting will be held online with Zoom due to the early sunset time. It will be on Thursday evening 11/11/21 at a time yet to be determined. We will have public observing at Big Blue on Friday evening November 12 at dusk. Contact Rick via email: rschwent at centurytel dot net (standard email format no spaces) OR Dennis: borgmandl at cs dot com for more information.
Our public ECC observing is done for 2021. Please check back in early 2022 for our March observing date.
NOTE HERE IF OBSERVING CANCELED:
If it is very cloudy or raining observing will be canceled.
Our QUILT RAFFLE drawing was held 9/3/2021 at Big Blue Observatory. The winning ticket was Joyce Mueller of Washington, MO. We sold 220 tickets!
Please help support our non-profit organization by using the following link when shopping at AMAZON. It is the same as www.amazon.com and you log in using your normal account information.
EMDSO will receive 1/2% of your order total at NO ADDITIONAL COST TO YOU!
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