Joining the ATMoB provides a special place for meeting and socializing with others who also enjoy astronomy as a hobby. Included in the yearly membership dues is a subscription to our monthly newsletter, STAR FIELDS.

Benefits of Joining

• Clubhouse Telescope Access
• Telescopes for use in our field
• Telescopes to borrow for offsite use
• Clubhouse Field Use
• Concrete pads with AC power in our observing field
• Use one of the club observatories for visual observing, astrophotography, or research
• Clubhouse Facilities
• Optical shop for hand or machine grinding and polishing
• Mirror test tunnel for Foucault or interferometer testing
• Machine shop for telescope fabrication and maintenance
• Warm space for winter observing
• Library of Astronomy and telescope making books
• Internet connection
• Member Announcement and Discussion Lists
• Monthly Club Meetings with Astronomy Presentations at the Harvard Center for Astrophysics
• Join our Star Parties as part of our Public Outreach program
• Weekly Friday night video lectures at the Clubhouse
• Club Discounts on Astronomy Magazine and Sky & Telescope Magazine

Joining the Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston

Join by doing one of the following:

• Use our convenient online membership application. Payment may be made with a credit card (via Club Express). Please do not use this if you are a current or past member! Log-in with your username & password and renew. If you don't know your username or password use the "Forgot My Username/Password" button or contact membership@atmob.org.
  
• Download an application, print it out (you need Adobe Acrobat), and send it with a check to the address indicated on the application.
• Attend one of our monthly meetings and speak to the membership secretary. Please have a filled out application.

All questions about membership should be directed to the Membership Secretary. Send email to membership@atmob.org. Call the phone number listed on our Contact Us page.

Yearly membership dues

• $35.00 for regular members,
• $45.00 for family memberships (multiple members of a family at one address),
• $15.00 for senior (65 and older) and student members (full time students of all ages).