The Ventura County Astronomical Society will host 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 a few sketches in Deep Sky magazine and presented papers at Riverside Telescope Makers Conference.

The meeting is open to the public.

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