If you’re looking for a New Year’s miracle in astronomy, Comet C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) is about the closest thing to it. Discovered back in August, the comet was never supposed to achieve naked-eye visibility, but it already has! It will continue to brighten when it’s expected to peak some time around January 7th where it […]
Tag: Stargazing
A Wyoming Stargazing Tour Time-Lapse
Ever wondered what a Wyoming Stargazing tour would look like as a time-lapse? I used to also. Then I made the video below. Back in September, the media went buzzing with the prospect of northern lights and how they were going to wow the socks off of the lower 48! They never showed up though. […]
Free Stargazing Has Moved to the Center for the Arts
We’re excited to announce that our free, public stargazing events have moved to the Center for the Arts located in downtown Jackson. This move allows us to reach more people thanks to a more convenient location to both locals and tourists, as well as receiving support from the Center for the Arts itself. In addition, […]
1,000 Stargazers!!!
Last night at the shores of Colter Bay Wyoming Stargazing reached our 1,000th stargazer! In just five short months since we began our programming Wyoming Stargazing has gone from hosting one program a week to hosting on average five programs a week. In additional to our night time stargazing events we are also hosting solar astronomy […]
Parkway Students from St. Louis Missouri
Last week Wyoming stargazing hosted two stargazing events for about 30 students from Parkway Middle School who were visiting the Teton Science Schools’ Kelly Campus. The first program, which was held on Tuesday evening, ended at 9:30pm because the students needed get back to bed after a long day. After an indoor presentation we went […]
Summer Kick-off Raffle
Even though summer isn’t officially here for another couple of weeks, it sure has felt like summer here in Jackson. So, Wyoming Stargazing kicked off our Summer Session of Stargazing at Stilson this past Wednesday by holding two raffles to win a 6″ Donsobian telescope and a first generation iPad. We had a perfectly cloudless […]
Special Lunar Eclipse Viewing April 14th!
Hello Fellow Wyoming Stargazers, On the night of Monday, April 14th there is going to be a Total Lunar Eclipse and Wyoming Stargazing wants to help you experience it for FREE! We’ll be setting up our telescopes at the Stilson Parking Lot as usual, about 100 yards behind the Start Bus bus stop building, at […]
Second Public Stargazing Event
We had our second free public stargazing event tonight. The clouds moved in early, but not before I was able to snap a few pictures of the moon through the telescope with my Droid camera. They are not the best moon pictures ever taken, but not too shabby for manually holding a Droid camera next to […]
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