Astronomy group to meet Feb. 15

The Ventura County Astronomical Society will hold its monthly membership meeting at 7:30 p.m. Fri., Feb. 15 in the multipurpose room at Mesa Union School, 3901 Mesa School Road in Somis.

The evening's subject will be The Sky Can Be Your Laboratory, with speaker Robert Buchheim.

Buchheim is a longtime member of the Orange County Astronomers and has been a trustee and corporate secretary of the OCA for several years. He has published sketches in Deep Sky magazine and presented papers at Riverside Telescope Makers Conference.

The public is invited.

For more information, call (805) 520-9666 or visit www.vcas.org.