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Texas Star Party 2026
Saturday, January 17, 2026 by Richard Harris
Registration for the 2026 Texas Star Party is open, and if you have been waiting for a clean excuse to get your gear under genuinely dark skies, this is it. Texas Star Party 2026 runs May 10 through May 17, 2026 at Prude Ranch in Fort Davis, Texas, and you can register at texasstarparty.org while pi...
Peach State Star Gaze 2025
Monday, August 11, 2025 by Russ Scritchfield
The Peach State Star Gaze (PSSG) is one of the longest-running annual star parties in the southeastern United States. Set to return for its 31st year, the 2025 event will be held from October 19 through October 26 at the familiar grounds of Deerlick Astronomy Village in Georgia. Organized by the Atl...
PARISTAR star party in the Pisgah National Forest
Wednesday, August 6, 2025 by Richard Harris
Each year, amateur astronomers across the Southeast look forward to one of the most accessible and friendly star party weekends in the region: the Star Party at the Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute, better known as PARI. Set in western North Carolina, surrounded by forest and far from city lig...
How many telescopes do you actually need
Wednesday, July 2, 2025 by Richard Harris
I was about eleven years old when I met the night sky "officially". It was the late-1980s, and one calm summer evening in the Ozarks I lugged a little 60 mm refractor, bright red, wobbly tripod and all, into the backyard. I had a star chart from the box my telescope came in, along with a t...