Author Archives: Hugh Crowl

Our recent weather pattern has really been limited clear nights. Unfortunately, we need to cancel again tonight due to cloudy skies. Hopefully next Thursday (April 7) will be more clear! We’ll start at 8:30pm next Thursday if the weather allows.

Unfortunately, it looks like the clouds are here to stay today. So, no observing tonight. We’ll try next Thursday (March 31) at 8pm!

Clouds look like they’re going to stay around for most of the evening tonight, so we are going to cancel public observing tonight. We’ll try again next Thursday (3/24) at 8pm!

After almost exactly 2 years away, we are finally able to resume public observing, starting this week. We will be observing every clear Thursday of the Spring 2022 term, starting Thursday, March 17, 2022. You can find the whole term … Continue reading →

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 →