One of our favorite places to visit twice a year is the OAS’s Camp Delany Star Party. This star party is held in the beautiful Sun Lakes State Park.  The geology is stunning and the night skies are awe-inspiring.  We get to spend this time with friends from all over the state.  Some…

We had a wonderful time this last Camp Delany.  We had one night, Thursday, that was an all-nighter with a couple of hours on Friday.  Even though the weather did not cooperate, it was wonderful to see all our astronomy buddies again!  Thanks to Hazen high school students and all folks attending for their hard…

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!