Each month, one of our club members writes an article to appear in the Moline Dispatch and Rock Island Argus newspapers. Below is a collection of these articles.
2024
January - Join PAC on Skywatch
February - Winter Football
2023
2022
2021
2020
2019
2018
• January - Find Orion
• February - Double Stars
• March - Transition Month
• April - Tesla Road Trips to Mars
• May - What to Look For in the Big Dipper
• June - Astronomy without a Telescope
2017
• January - No Telescope? No Problem!
• February - February's Lunar Eclipse
• March - March's View of Venus and Jupiter
• April - Chasing a Pair of Hidden Planets
• May - Six Ways to See this Summer's Eclipse
• June - Identifying Planets and Stars in the Night Sky
• July - Novas: The (not so) new stars
• August - 2017 Solar Eclipse
• October - Space Law
• November - Planetary Dance
• December - It's almost time to look for Venus
2016
• January - A Big Year for Exploration of the Smallest Planets
• February - Pluto's Heart
• March - Meteorites: Unlikely Killers
• April - Mars' Orbit and its Apparent Size
• May - Viewing Mercury and Mars in May
• June - Using the Big Dipper to find Other Constellations
• July - Dark Constellations
• August - Perseid Meteor Shower
• September - Identifying Objects in the Night Sky
• October - The Sun
• November - Star Color and Magnitude
• December - Pluto
2015
• January - Things to See in January
• February - The Winter Triangle and Gemini
• March - Solar Eclipses
• April - Viewing Venus and Jupiter
• May - Viewing Saturn
• June - Troubles of Stargazing in June
• July - Phases of Venus
• August - Perseid Meteor Shower
• September - Saturn
• October - Andromeda Galaxy
• November - November's Constellations
• December - Occultation of Venus