Membership Benefits
Your membership entitles you and your immediate family (spouse and children) to the following benefits:
- Monthly newsletter. Eight pages full of late breaking astronomical news, information, reports, and club business. Many articles are written by our own members.
- Access to a 24 inch(!) telescope. The Lowbrows have access to the University’s 24 inch McMath Cassegrain telescope on Peach Mountain near Pinckney. See for yourself what REAL light gathering power is! Also, if you own your own telescope, there is room at the observatory site to set it up at one of the darkest sites in the Ann Arbor area.
- E-Mail list and private forums. All members have the option of being included in our e-mail list. A variety of information is distributed in this way.
- Members have a dedicated “member space” on our website with space for images, blog entries and more
- The University Lowbrow Astronomers are a member of NASA’s Night Sky Network.
- Unless otherwise indicated, monthly meetings are held on the third Friday of every month, at 7:30 pm. Besides club business, meetings always feature a speaker and/or some kind of presentation. Unless otherwise indicated, meetings are held in the main conference room at the Detroit Observatory on the campus of the University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor [Map to the Detroit Observatory]. (The July meetings are usually held on the campus of Eastern Michigan University). Per tradition, after each meeting we adjourn to the nearby Pizza House for food and camaraderie.
- Public Open Houses at Peach Mountain are scheduled on a regular basis. When it is clear, these are well attended by visitors, so you are encouraged to help with these events, whether directing parking or foot traffic, or providing a telescope for viewing. The Lowbrows are also involved with a variety of other astronomy related events over the course of the year.
- See the Calendar of Events