RVAS Monthly Meetings: The Annual RVAS Picnic was held on Saturday, October 24th at the Whispering Pines Picnic Shelter. It was a great time for all with pizza, salads, desserts, drinks and fellowship! The weather was great! I think we had about 20 folks there. Thanks to Mallory for organizing this event, and to many others who also helped in pulling it off.

The next meeting for the RVAS club will be on Monday, November 16th at Virginia Western location. Our speaker will be Dr. Wes Ryle from the Cincinnati Observatory. Dr. Ryle is the head astronomer there, and will speak on citizen science in astronomy.

Dr. Ryle joined the Cincinnati Observatory in 2024 after teaching astronomy and physics at Thomas More University (TMU) for 16 years. During this tenure, he also served as director of the campus observatory, conducting astronomical research with undergraduate students and overseeing a successful outreach program and lecture series.