Carpe Noctem
Club Slogan: “Carpe Noctem”
Latin for “seize the night” (the clear, steady, dark night sky)
The core of our galaxy, the Milky Way, photographed by club member Alan Davis at one of the club’s “Pop-up” star gazes, at the Mt. Pisgah Trailhead along the Blue Ridge Parkway
Globular Star Cluster M13 in the constellation Hercules, taken by club member Tom Engwall
“My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all. We see the universe the way it is because, if it were different, we would not be here to observe it.”
– Stephen Hawking, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics