The Hurricane Ridge Star Party is cancelled for tonight due to weather.

I would like to thank Mark Prouty for his great talk about the road to the moon!  If you weren’t there, you missed a good one!  Also, thank you to Dean Kelley for sharing his amazing astrophotos of the sun!  Enjoy the pictures below!

Our Lunar party up at Hurricane Ridge was full of great people and fantastic night sky. I have to say that it fills my heart to show all the people their first look at Saturn and Jupiter. Many of them had never seen the Milky Way. They had such awe in them! And for them…

Camp Delany sign up form   We are so excited for our upcoming fall Camp Delany, September 25th through the 29th!  RV spots are limited so contact Jeff if you are interested in bringing an RV but plenty of bunkhouse space available!  If you have any questions, please email Jeff at campdelanycoordinator@olympicastronomicalsociety.org.  Hope to see…

Thank you to Jim and Ruth for a lovely picnic this past Saturday! We had around 20 people and the weather was wonderful. You can see by the pictures how beautiful the venue was! We had great eats and thank you, Jeff, for the wonderful seafood! We look forward to next year!

WHEN:  JULY 20TH WHERE:  HURRICANE RIDGE NATIONAL PARK The Olympic Astronomical Society will be joining the Olympic National Park Dark Ranger, John Goar, at Hurricane Ridge Visitor Center for special lunar observing on July 20th in honor of the 50th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing! The moon will be rising at approximately 11:15…

Once again, we had an excellent spring Camp Delany Star party.  We had around 50 friendly people and 1 not so friendly (just kidding)! We had several nights of great viewing.  The first night we had wind to deal with but the second night was much better, leading folks to stay out until dawn!  As…

     Thank you so much to all who made our 50th anniversary banquet a success.  Our speaker, Dr. Tyler Nordgren, was so passionate about our dark skies in the National and State Parks.  We thank him for all his work in trying to keep them that way! It was amazing to learn of the…

Thanks to all for the wonderful time at our potluck tonight! We had about 30 friends there and had great food and some amazing music provided by Carissa and Tiana. These 2 ladies are so very talented at the piano and the music was beautiful! Happy holidays to all and we hope to see you…

  What an amazing picture of the Great Andromeda Galaxy taken at Camp Delany by our member Chuck Barnard with his Canon T3i full mod Asa 1600 9/300 sec lights 5 darks.  We had great skies at Camp Delany this fall!  Congratulations, Chuck, this is beautiful!