Westport Observatory

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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The Westport Astronomical Society’s Pre-Summer Solstice StarBQ Picnic and Board Elections!

This is a WAS members, friends, and family event as we break out the WAS Grill of Carbonation and char up some tasty tidbits of ground bovine and whatever the heck they put in Hummel hot dogs! It’s a potluck so please bring some goodies to share with your WAS friends. After we eat we

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BOB MEADOWS ANNUAL STELLAFANE REPORT!

  THE CLASSROOM WILL BE OPEN FOR THIS EVENT PLEASE COME AND SUPPORT LIVE TALKS! This lecture is an IN PERSON meeting and will eventually be posted on our YouTube channel. We encourage you to participate, ask questions and be a part of the live meeting.   WAS Observatory Director BOB MEADOWS returns with his

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Ofer Cohen – How Space Environments Threaten Exoplanet Habitability

Ofer Cohen – Associate Professor UMass – Lowell Center for Space Science & Technology How Space Environments Threaten Exoplanet Habitability THE CLASSROOM WILL BE CLOSED FOR THIS EVENT   This lecture will be hosted as a Webinar on Zoom as well as a live stream on our YouTube channel. We encourage you to participate, ask questions, and be a part

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Caleb Scharf – NASA’s Senior Scientist for Astrobiology at the Ames Research Center

Caleb Scharf – NASA’s Senior Scientist for Astrobiology at the Ames Research Center The Search for Life in the Universe: 2024 and beyond   THE CLASSROOM WILL BE CLOSED FOR THIS EVENT   This lecture will be hosted as a Webinar on Zoom as well as a live stream on our YouTube channel. We encourage you to participate, ask questions,

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Robert A. Simcoe – Director, MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research

Science in the Early Universe with the James Webb Space Telescope THE CLASSROOM WILL BE CLOSED FOR THIS EVENT   This lecture will be hosted as a Webinar on Zoom as well as a live stream on our YouTube channel. We encourage you to participate, ask questions, and be a part of the live meeting.     WAS welcomes Robert

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Lisa Upton, Southwest Research Institute – Solar Cycle 25 and NASA’s Heliophysics Big Year

Solar Cycle 25 and NASA’s Heliophysics Big Year THE CLASSROOM WILL BE CLOSED FOR THIS EVENT   This lecture will be hosted as a Webinar on Zoom as well as a live stream on our YouTube channel. We encourage you to participate, ask questions, and be a part of the live meeting.   Lisa Upton of the Southwest Research Institute

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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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Partial Solar Eclipse Viewing!

  In 2017 we had 1,000 of our closest friends and neighbors descend on the Westport Observatory for the partial eclipse. Wowza. This year, the Westport Observatory WILL BE CLOSED and we’ll be at the Westport Library. On April 8th, 2024 from 2-4 pm, we take the telescopes and partner with our friends at the

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How Beautiful, The Universe

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