Topic: Ancient Echoes of a Forgotten Sky
Speaker: Adam Block
We’re excited to announce that the annual SDAA banquet will be held at the Hyatt Regency Mission Bay Resort on January 11, 2025. This year the Board opted to reduce ticket prices to only $65 per person! Here’s a link to the menu. Registration deadline is January 4, so register soon!
The evening begins with a no-host cocktail hour from 5:00 to 6:00 pm, which will be the perfect opportunity to renew old friendships and make new ones. It’s also a great time to look at auction items and buy raffle tickets!
Our dinner and program meeting will be from 6:00 to 7:00, followed by our guest speaker, world renowned astroimager Adam Block. Adam has won over 100 NASA APOD awards. His presentation is titled “Ancient Echoes of a Forgotten Sky”. This will give us a view of the night sky through the eyes of one of the best astroimagers on Earth! This will NOT be a class on Pixinsight, Photoshop, or how to autoguide!
The SDAA Auction is now live! Click here to start bidding.
Raffle tickets are only sold at the event and winner must be present to claim and win.
We have some amazing raffle items! As of today, we will have:
- one ZWO SeeStar $500 value
- one ZWO 2600 MC Duo $1800 value
- one ZWO Air Plus 256G $300 value
- Astro-tech UWA eyepiece set $400 value
- Astrotech XWA eyepiece set $860 value
- Explore Scientific eyepiece set $720 value
Raffle items include the following gift cards:
- $500 Woodland Hills Telescope
- $500 Agena Astro
- $500 Southwest airlines
- 2 $100 doordash
- $100 Blue Bridge dining at several restaurants in Coronado
- $100 at the Cohn Family Restaurant Group
We will continue to post information about our sweepstakes and auction items, so stay tuned! If you’d like to make a tax-deductible donation to help us with our mission, please click here: Donate Now
If you’d like to donate items for the auction, please email Paul at loanerscopes@sdaa.org
For those wanting to turn this event into a staycation, discounted room rates are available for $179.
Free street parking is available. Paid valet or self parking in the resort lot is also an option.
Want to volunteer at the Banquet? Have other questions? Please email Mike Chasin at treasurer@sdaa.org.
We have a lot more to do and your participation and generosity is key to our success! If for some reason you can’t attend, please consider making a donation to keep SDAA moving forward! Tickets will not refundable after January 4, 2025.
Wishing you clear skies,
Your SDAA Board of Directors
