Sorry to say that, due to our site being closed and also the weather being forecast, the local star party for October has been cancelled.

We had a wonderful time at Camp Delany.  The weather did not cooperate, giving us only 2 nights of a few hours of viewing.  Wednesday night we had about 2 hours with the night resulting in poor transparency and 90 percent humidity!  Thursday and Friday were a bust but we had wonderful times visiting with…

Hi Folks,  We are looking forward to hearing all your stories and any pictures you may have at our next meeting on September 11th at Olympic College! Come prepared to chat! These photos are courtesy of Jim Sykes!  We hope to see yours!

Camp Delany registration is now closed and the camp is full.  I have left the sign up form attached in case anyone needs any information from it.  I am very excited to see all of you next week that signed up and, for those who weren’t able to attend, I hope to see you next…

Thank you to Dr. Bjorn Nilsen for his great talk about Electromagentics!  So very interesting and he had great visuals! We are looking forward to next month’s part 2!  We also talked about the upcoming Hurricane Ridge Star Party.  It is our 20th year up at the ridge and we are excited to be there…

We had a great meeting this June.  We learned about how to read star charts and star party etiquette. Congratulations to Cliff and Jeff for earning their pins a certificate from the Astronomical League Sketching Program!  You have to sketch a minimum of 75 of the 110 objects on the list, so Cliff and Jeff…

Check out this amazing astrophoto of NGC 7023, the Iris Nebula, a bright nebula in Cepheus.  There is a lot of cosmic dust surrounding the massive young stars in it’s center!  Thank you Al Tuttle for sharing.  See more of Al’s amazing photos at:  http://www.alberts-astro.com/astro/Astropics/2014-2017/index.html