Fw: Zoom link for DAS bookclub meeting July 30 at 7 p.m.

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HAL members,

See below - for this Thursday...fits last week's presentation about binocular astronomy - or astronomy without a telescope...here using opera glasses!

Aldis

Your HAL ALCOR

Greetings MERAL Presidents, ALCors, editors, officers and others,

Below is the Zoom link for the Delaware Astronomical Society book club meeting on Thursday July 30 at 7 p.m.

Mary Webb, DAS Librarian, has some excellent guests lined up!

Please share this with your club members!

Clear skies,

Don Knabb, MERAL Chair

FROM MARY WEBB, DAS LIBRARIAN:

You are cordially invited to attend the July meeting of the Delaware Astronomical Society Book Club via Zoom link:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81917249208?pwd=11p2k5baacfcc1OXGQQwrgWvAhxr70.1

Meeting ID: 819 1724 9208
Passcode: 657960

Thursday, July 30, 2026
7:00 p.m. Eastern Time
Via Zoom

Astronomy with an Opera-Glass
By Garrett P. Serviss

Read the book online through Project Gutenberg

Phil Harrington and Trudy E. Bell will join us for our meeting.

First published in 1888, Astronomy with an Opera-Glass appeared during New York’s Gilded Age, when opera and theater occupied a prominent place in the city’s cultural life. Serviss showed his readers how the opera glasses they carried to the theater could extend an evening at the opera into an evening of stargazing. His book helped popularize binocular astronomy and demonstrated that the heavens could be explored without a telescope.

They turned the starry heavens into a scroll filled with pictured stories of mythology.  G P Serviss

The Greek mythology woven throughout the book well reflects the national interest in classical culture associated with the American Renaissance with the myths of Greece and Rome immortalized in the names and stories of the planets, constellations, and stars. The Statue of Liberty—conceived as the Roman goddess, Libertas, dedicated in New York Harbor in 1886—is one of the most famous expressions in New York, where Serviss lived and worked, of the classical imagery of the American Renaissance. Our fascination with Greek mythology continues today in Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster, The Odyssey.

Phil Harrington will discuss Garrett Serviss’s remarkable classic.

Trudy E. Bell will discuss the life of Garrett P. Serviss.

Dr. Alma C. Zook will discuss the music of the period.

You and your guests are welcome to attend.

Mary Webb

Delaware Astronomical Society Librarian