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WAS Friends and Family Star Party Spring Edition

This is a WAS members, friends, and family event and is a star party for our members and supporters. We take out the telescopes for a night among friends with some food, hot coffee, cocoa, and the spring skies!

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Messier Marathon 2025

We will be doing a Messier Marathon this year on Friday, March 28th with a rain date of March 29th. We observe all night and try to see all of the 110 Messier objects as a group. Someone finds an object, then everyone looks at it, then we move to the next object. You can

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CSP 34

The Connecticut Star Party Connecticut’s Premier Star Party September 6-8th, 2024 RAIN OR SHINE Edmund D. Strang Scout Reservation Goshen, CT Join WAS with our friends from the Astronomical Society of New Haven as they host a weekend gathering of amateur astronomers with the purpose of observing the sky   Online Registration will end on

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International Observe the Moon Night 2024

  EVERYONE IS INVITED! Saturday, September 14, 8:00 PM   NASA’s International Observe the Moon Night Parking may be an issue – please consider carpooling and/or parking in the lot at the bottom of the hill and walking up to the Observatory. What is InOMN? International Observe the Moon Night is a worldwide celebration of lunar

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CANCELLED DUE TO WEATHER! WAS Friends and Family Star Party at the Westport Observatory Spring Edition

This is a WAS members, friends, and family event and is a private star party for our members and supporters. We take out the telescopes for a night among friends with some food, hot coffee and cocoa, and the spring skies! Sorry, the weather will keep us closed. We’ll try again this fall.

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Messier Marathon

This is a Members Only event. We will be doing a Messier Marathon this year on Friday, March 8 with a rain date of March 9. We observe all night and try to see all of the 110 Messier objects. We do it as a group. Someone finds an object, then everyone looks at it,

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