membership benefits
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Free membership to the Astronomical League which includes the Reflector magazine mailed to your home (or to your email inbox).
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Access to the no-charge telescope loan program. You get the scope plus accessories for a month (extendable).
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Access to all areas of this web site including archived meeting videos and summary documents.
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Free access to the Southworth Planetarium on the Portland campus of USM.
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Learn stuff! Our members use all manner of equipment in all sorts of ways. Our star parties and meetings are a great opportunity to pick some brains. Our meetings frequently feature observing topics as well as talks from practicing astronomers.
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Pick up some gear! Nice equipment is often donated to the Club. When there isn't an immediate good use case, the Club will offer the gear for sale to members first and only then to outside parties. Members themselves are sometimes looking to sell gear to fund an upgrade or for other reasons. Those sales are often offered to members first as well.
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You will be supporting the club.
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Learn new astronomy dad jokes!
​The main thing is that we all love to talk and do astronomy.​​​
renew your membership, or become a member and join us!
There's a little bit of astronomer in everyone.
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Come join a club filled with members that celebrate astronomy. Some of us have a special interest in astrophotography. Others like to do eye-at-eyepiece visual. And a few are happy looking at columns of numbers (those folk call that data) obtained from an exoplanet light curve perhaps, while there are members who create art from their astro inspirations. Most every interest exists in-between these.
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We also do mentoring, sponsor public outreach events, hold meetings, member how-to sessions, have star parties, and fight light pollution. We even loan out nice scopes to members for a month at a time.
