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TAAA

About TAAA

A volunteer community of sky watchers, since 1954.

The Tucson Amateur Astronomy Association is a nonprofit club of amateur astronomers, educators, observers and astrophotographers who share the southern Arizona sky with the public.

What we do

Sharing telescopes, knowledge and dark skies.

TAAA members host public star parties at parks around Tucson, bring telescopes to schools and youth groups, hold monthly meetings with astronomy lectures at the University of Arizona’s Steward Observatory, and run classes, workshops and special-interest groups.

Members also maintain dark-sky observing sites, a loaner pool of telescopes and equipment, and long-running projects such as the 32-inch DFM Cassegrain telescope.

The original TAAA emblem: telescope, saguaros and crescent moon against a desert sunset sky, ringed by the words Tucson Amateur Astronomy Association, Est. 1954
The original TAAA emblem, shown unchanged.

Our emblem

A mark worth keeping.

A telescope aimed at a desert sunset, two saguaros and a crescent moon — the TAAA emblem captures what this club is about: looking up from the Sonoran Desert. It appears on decades of badges, shirts and merchandise.

This concept treats the emblem as the club’s official identity. The simple “TAAA” lettering in the navigation is only a design exploration for small screens, not a replacement.

TAAA merchandise (opens the official TAAA site in a new tab)

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