Author Archives: Hugh Crowl

We have made the difficult but necessary decision to not hold in-person public observing during the Fall 2020 term. In leiu of in-person observing, we are hoping to run a few “virtual” observing nights. Keep an eye out for information … Continue reading →

Spring public observing starts this week! This term we will, once again, have observing on Thursday nights at Stickney Observatory. See the full schedule on our web page, but our first night is scheduled for Thursday, February 20, starting at … Continue reading →

The Fall Weekend observing scheduled to happen tonight (Friday, September 27) will go on as scheduled, starting at 8pm. It looks to be a beautiful night; hope to see you out there!

Our observing night with the Bennington Free Library originally scheduled for tonight (9/24) has been postponed until tomorrow (9/25). The skies look very promising, so we hope to see you all at 7:30pm tomorrow!

Because of cloudy weather (and a cloudy forecast for tomorrow), we have decided to delay the observing night we originally scheduled with the Bennington Free Library until September. We will plan on observing Tuesday, September 24, starting at 7:30pm (with … Continue reading →

Observing with the Bennington Free Library tomorrow! Tuesday, August 6 at 8:45pm, with a “cloud date” of Wednesday, August 7 at 8:45pm. As always, observing is weather-dependent, so check back here after 5pm on the 6th to see if we … Continue reading →

The weather looks great for observing tonight, July 9, 2019. We’ll start in the Dickinson Science Building, Room 232 (#4 on the campus map) at 8:30pm, then walk down to the observatory together. Hope to see you tonight!

While Stickney Observatory is closed for most of the summer, we will have two special viewing opportunities this summer, in collaboration with our local libraries and the Universe of Stories summer reading program. On Tuesday, July 9, 2019 at 8:30pm … Continue reading →

The full schedule for Spring, 2019 public observing nights will be posted here soon. Our first night of the Spring term will be Wednesday, February 27, 2019, starting at 7pm. Hope to see you out there!

Stickney Observatory is closed over Bennington’s winter break. We will re-open again in late February. Keep an eye on our schedule page for our Spring 2018 observing schedule in the next couple weeks.