If you're in the Boston area, there are several October events in Lowell of interest to VSOers.
http://www.pollardml.org/events/lowell-reads?utm_source=General+eNews+0…
10/3 author Dava Sobel will discuss her book, The Glass Universe, about the forgotten women astronomers of Harvard Observatory.
10/21 Harvard College Observatory staff will talk about the extensive photographic plate collection.
10-18 - 11/12 Merrimack Repertory Theater production of Silent Sky, about the life of Henrietta Leavitt. http://www.mrt.org/show/silent-sky
It's a stellar conjunction!