AAI - located at Sperry Observatory, Union County College, Cranford, NJ. Open on Friday nights!!! To promote and encourage popular interest in the science of astronomy by holding membership meetings, conducting public forums, sponsoring guided viewings of the night sky, engaging speakers on astronomy and related subjects, holding exhibits of a scientific nature, instructing and training members and the interested public in the making or use of telescopes and other astronomical instruments and their components, giving occasional classes in popular and technical astronomy, developing and encouraging the abilities of its members to engage in research, including scientific expeditions, and to lecture and write upon astronomical subjects, and to associate with other scientific organizations.