Here is Dan Lewelyn at Deerlick Astronomy Village near Atlanta, Georgia. Photo by Dave Woolsteen.
Interested in astronomy, but not sure where to begin? A first step can be to seek out your local astronomy club. It consists of a roomful of willing and able amateur astronomers, whose telescopes may offer your first glimpse of the cosmos. The Astronomical League, an umbrella organization of 240 amateur astronomy clubs and societies in the U.S.
The Astronomical League also helps us create and maintain the list of events on this page. Click here to visit the Astronomical League’s website.
Know of an event that’s not on the list below? Contact us.
Do you have a great photo of a star party in your area? Submit here.
Looking for an astronomy club in your area? Click here.
Special thanks also to the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada for help with this list.
Jump below the photo for a list of upcoming events! If no web link is given, it’s because the information for the upcoming event hasn’t been posted yet. Check back.
Jim Elliott of Powell, Ohio, contributed this photo. He wrote: “The moon over Jupiter over Columbus, Ohio, at the OSU planetarium star party. April 16, 2016.”
View larger. | Max Corneau wrote: “On May 6, 2016, approximately 30 members of the Texas Astronomical Society of Dallas enjoyed a new moon weekend evening at the club’s dark sky site in southeast Oklahoma. Now in its 61st year, TAS is one of the largest amateur astronomical societies in America with 625 members. The Bortle Class-3 skies at the club’s dark site are dark enough to enjoy every aspect of astronomy. I captured this 100-minute deep sky image of the Trifid Nebula after staying up all night …”
Upcoming astronomy events …spring and summer, 2017
March 3-4, 2017
Tri-Star 2017
Greensboro Astronomy Club and the
Cline Observatory
Guilford Technical Community College,
Jamestown, North Carolina
http://ift.tt/2gOL6ty
March 16–19, 2017
Don Surles Mirror Making Workshop #17
Delmarva Star Gazers
http://ift.tt/2mAp2tc
March 22–26, 2017
Staunton River Star Party
South Boston,
Virginia
http://ift.tt/2lBMcL4
March 24–26, 2017
Pickett Astronomy Weekend
Pickett-Pogue Dark Sky Park
Jamestown, Tennessee
http://ift.tt/2lBMaTs
March 25, 2017
2017 All-Arizona Messier Marathon
Salome Emergency Airfield (south of I-10 at Exit 53)
Tucson, Arizona
http://ift.tt/2mAybCn
April 6–7, 2017
Northeast Astro-Imaging Conference
Rockland Astronomy Club, Suffern,
New York
http://ift.tt/1EARBsf
April 8–9, 2017
Northeast Astronomy Forum
Suffern, New York
http://ift.tt/2gOJEY5
April 20–23, 2017
South Jersey Astronomy Club Spring Star Party
Belleplain, New Jersey
http://ift.tt/1QHaqeW
April 21–22, 2017
North Carolina Statewide Star Party
35+ public skywatching sessions from the North
Carolina mountains to the coast
http://ift.tt/2gOGQu0
April 21–23, 2017
NCRAL 2017 Convention
Eagle Bluff Environmental Learning Center
rochesterskies.org
April 22–29, 2017
The 2017 OzSky Star Safari
(aka Deepest South Texas Star Safari)
Coonabarabran, New South Wales, Australia
ozsky.org
April 26–29, 2017
Mid-South Star Gaze and Astronomy Conference
French Camp, Mississippi
http://ift.tt/2gOM6xS
April 27–30, 2017
Southern Star Astronomy Convention
Charlotte Amateur Astronomers Club, Little
Switzerland, North Carolina
http://ift.tt/1CdflgL
April 29, 2017
Astronomy Day
Nationwide
http://ift.tt/1UuLnS3
May 6–7, 2017
AstroCATS
London, Ontario, Canada
www.astrocats.ca
May 18–21, 2017
2017 Bootleg Astronomy Star Party
Green River Conservation Area, Harmon, Illinois
http://ift.tt/1UuLmh3
May 19–21, 2017
Michiana Star Party 9
Dr. T.K. Lawless Park
http://ift.tt/1WnMXnt
May 21-28, 2017
Texas Star Party
Fort Davis, Texas
texasstarparty.org
May 25–29, 2017
RTMC Astronomy Expo
YMCA Camp Oakes, Big Bear City, California
http://ift.tt/1PzpHnj
May 26–28, 2017
Tennessee Spring Star Party
Fall Creek Falls State Park
http://ift.tt/1AyagRv
June 2–4, 2017
The Symposium on Telescope Science
Ontario Airport Hotel, Ontario, California
http://ift.tt/1QHapYh
June 9–11, 2017
MSRAL 2017 Convention
Missouri State University
www.msral.org
June 17–24
Grand Canyon Star Party: North Rim, Arizona
http://ift.tt/1QHaqvg
2016GrandCanyonStarPartyNorthRim.htm
July 19–22, 2017
Green Bank Star Quest 14
Green Bank Observatory, West Virginia
http://ift.tt/1UuLo8w
June 21–25, 2017
Rocky Mountain Star Stare
Gardner, Colorado
www.rmss.org
June 22–25, 2017
Wisconsin Observers’ Weekend
Hartman Creek State Park, just west of
Waupaca, Wisconsin
www.new-star.org
August 16–19, 2017
AstroCon2017 and Total Solar Eclipse
Casper, Wyoming
www.astroleague.org
June 17-24
Grand Canyon Star Party
Grand Canyon National Park
Grand Canyon Star Party
June 21–25, 2017
Rocky Mountain Star Stare 2017
Gardner, Colorado
rmss.org
June 22-25, 2017
Cherry Springs Star Party
Coudersport, Pennsylvania
http://ift.tt/1Klyrf2
Tentatively sheduled for June 22-25, 2017
Wisconsin Observers’ Weekend
Hartman Creek State Park just west of Waupaca, Wisconsin
http://ift.tt/1QHaqve
August 17 to 20, 2017
Thebacha & Wood Buffalo Dark Sky Festival
Wood Buffalo National Park (world’s largest Dark Sky Preserve)
Fort Smith, Northwest Territories, Canada
www.tawbas.ca
September 21 – 23, 2017
Flagstaff Star Party
The Flagstaff Dark Skies Coalition
Flagstaff, Arizona
flagstaffstarparty.org
September 22-24, 2017
Connecticut Star Party 27
Hosted by the Astronomical Society of New Haven
Strang Boy Scout Camp, Goshen, Connecticut
ASNH.ORG
Texas Star Party, one of the biggest public astronomy events of each year, drawing about 500 deep-sky enthusiasts and their telescopes to the Davis Mountains of West Texas. Image used with permission, via Todd Hargis and Ron Ronhaar.
Bottom line: List of astronomy and night sky events for the public, for 2015 and 2016, compiled in cooperation with the awesome Astronomical League. Join in, and have fun!
from EarthSky http://ift.tt/1UhrUpV
Here is Dan Lewelyn at Deerlick Astronomy Village near Atlanta, Georgia. Photo by Dave Woolsteen.
Interested in astronomy, but not sure where to begin? A first step can be to seek out your local astronomy club. It consists of a roomful of willing and able amateur astronomers, whose telescopes may offer your first glimpse of the cosmos. The Astronomical League, an umbrella organization of 240 amateur astronomy clubs and societies in the U.S.
The Astronomical League also helps us create and maintain the list of events on this page. Click here to visit the Astronomical League’s website.
Know of an event that’s not on the list below? Contact us.
Do you have a great photo of a star party in your area? Submit here.
Looking for an astronomy club in your area? Click here.
Special thanks also to the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada for help with this list.
Jump below the photo for a list of upcoming events! If no web link is given, it’s because the information for the upcoming event hasn’t been posted yet. Check back.
Jim Elliott of Powell, Ohio, contributed this photo. He wrote: “The moon over Jupiter over Columbus, Ohio, at the OSU planetarium star party. April 16, 2016.”
View larger. | Max Corneau wrote: “On May 6, 2016, approximately 30 members of the Texas Astronomical Society of Dallas enjoyed a new moon weekend evening at the club’s dark sky site in southeast Oklahoma. Now in its 61st year, TAS is one of the largest amateur astronomical societies in America with 625 members. The Bortle Class-3 skies at the club’s dark site are dark enough to enjoy every aspect of astronomy. I captured this 100-minute deep sky image of the Trifid Nebula after staying up all night …”
Upcoming astronomy events …spring and summer, 2017
March 3-4, 2017
Tri-Star 2017
Greensboro Astronomy Club and the
Cline Observatory
Guilford Technical Community College,
Jamestown, North Carolina
http://ift.tt/2gOL6ty
March 16–19, 2017
Don Surles Mirror Making Workshop #17
Delmarva Star Gazers
http://ift.tt/2mAp2tc
March 22–26, 2017
Staunton River Star Party
South Boston,
Virginia
http://ift.tt/2lBMcL4
March 24–26, 2017
Pickett Astronomy Weekend
Pickett-Pogue Dark Sky Park
Jamestown, Tennessee
http://ift.tt/2lBMaTs
March 25, 2017
2017 All-Arizona Messier Marathon
Salome Emergency Airfield (south of I-10 at Exit 53)
Tucson, Arizona
http://ift.tt/2mAybCn
April 6–7, 2017
Northeast Astro-Imaging Conference
Rockland Astronomy Club, Suffern,
New York
http://ift.tt/1EARBsf
April 8–9, 2017
Northeast Astronomy Forum
Suffern, New York
http://ift.tt/2gOJEY5
April 20–23, 2017
South Jersey Astronomy Club Spring Star Party
Belleplain, New Jersey
http://ift.tt/1QHaqeW
April 21–22, 2017
North Carolina Statewide Star Party
35+ public skywatching sessions from the North
Carolina mountains to the coast
http://ift.tt/2gOGQu0
April 21–23, 2017
NCRAL 2017 Convention
Eagle Bluff Environmental Learning Center
rochesterskies.org
April 22–29, 2017
The 2017 OzSky Star Safari
(aka Deepest South Texas Star Safari)
Coonabarabran, New South Wales, Australia
ozsky.org
April 26–29, 2017
Mid-South Star Gaze and Astronomy Conference
French Camp, Mississippi
http://ift.tt/2gOM6xS
April 27–30, 2017
Southern Star Astronomy Convention
Charlotte Amateur Astronomers Club, Little
Switzerland, North Carolina
http://ift.tt/1CdflgL
April 29, 2017
Astronomy Day
Nationwide
http://ift.tt/1UuLnS3
May 6–7, 2017
AstroCATS
London, Ontario, Canada
www.astrocats.ca
May 18–21, 2017
2017 Bootleg Astronomy Star Party
Green River Conservation Area, Harmon, Illinois
http://ift.tt/1UuLmh3
May 19–21, 2017
Michiana Star Party 9
Dr. T.K. Lawless Park
http://ift.tt/1WnMXnt
May 21-28, 2017
Texas Star Party
Fort Davis, Texas
texasstarparty.org
May 25–29, 2017
RTMC Astronomy Expo
YMCA Camp Oakes, Big Bear City, California
http://ift.tt/1PzpHnj
May 26–28, 2017
Tennessee Spring Star Party
Fall Creek Falls State Park
http://ift.tt/1AyagRv
June 2–4, 2017
The Symposium on Telescope Science
Ontario Airport Hotel, Ontario, California
http://ift.tt/1QHapYh
June 9–11, 2017
MSRAL 2017 Convention
Missouri State University
www.msral.org
June 17–24
Grand Canyon Star Party: North Rim, Arizona
http://ift.tt/1QHaqvg
2016GrandCanyonStarPartyNorthRim.htm
July 19–22, 2017
Green Bank Star Quest 14
Green Bank Observatory, West Virginia
http://ift.tt/1UuLo8w
June 21–25, 2017
Rocky Mountain Star Stare
Gardner, Colorado
www.rmss.org
June 22–25, 2017
Wisconsin Observers’ Weekend
Hartman Creek State Park, just west of
Waupaca, Wisconsin
www.new-star.org
August 16–19, 2017
AstroCon2017 and Total Solar Eclipse
Casper, Wyoming
www.astroleague.org
June 17-24
Grand Canyon Star Party
Grand Canyon National Park
Grand Canyon Star Party
June 21–25, 2017
Rocky Mountain Star Stare 2017
Gardner, Colorado
rmss.org
June 22-25, 2017
Cherry Springs Star Party
Coudersport, Pennsylvania
http://ift.tt/1Klyrf2
Tentatively sheduled for June 22-25, 2017
Wisconsin Observers’ Weekend
Hartman Creek State Park just west of Waupaca, Wisconsin
http://ift.tt/1QHaqve
August 17 to 20, 2017
Thebacha & Wood Buffalo Dark Sky Festival
Wood Buffalo National Park (world’s largest Dark Sky Preserve)
Fort Smith, Northwest Territories, Canada
www.tawbas.ca
September 21 – 23, 2017
Flagstaff Star Party
The Flagstaff Dark Skies Coalition
Flagstaff, Arizona
flagstaffstarparty.org
September 22-24, 2017
Connecticut Star Party 27
Hosted by the Astronomical Society of New Haven
Strang Boy Scout Camp, Goshen, Connecticut
ASNH.ORG
Texas Star Party, one of the biggest public astronomy events of each year, drawing about 500 deep-sky enthusiasts and their telescopes to the Davis Mountains of West Texas. Image used with permission, via Todd Hargis and Ron Ronhaar.
Bottom line: List of astronomy and night sky events for the public, for 2015 and 2016, compiled in cooperation with the awesome Astronomical League. Join in, and have fun!
from EarthSky http://ift.tt/1UhrUpV
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