Astrophotography Special Interest Group (ASIG)
The next meeting of the Battle Point Observatory’s Astrophotography Special Interest Group will be on Saturday, October 17th, at 11 AM in the Gardiner Library inside of the Battle Point Observatory.
Astronomy
Dark Skies for Bird Migration
We are well into peak bird migration and overflight season in the Pacific Northwest. Visit this website – https://dashboard.birdcast.org/region/US-WA-035 – to see the nightly activity over Kitsap.
WHAT’S UP(COMING)! – Observation Calendar Oct-Dec 2026
Source for events and links below are In-The-Sky.org, Dominic Ford, Editor. The links provide details for each event including a scale on how difficult they are to observe.
How NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Will Open a Window into the Milky Way
A new NASA telescope—named after NASA’s first chief of astronomy and first female executive, Nancy Grace Roman—will let us observe these changes to the night sky, almost as if we are watching a cosmic high-definition movie.
Scientists Spot a New Crater on the Moon
Sometime between April 11 and May 22, 2024, a comet or asteroid roughly the height of a three- to six-story building smashed into the Moon, leaving a crater 728 feet (222 meters) wide in its wake. A year and a half later, a NASA scientist spotted it, making it the largest newly formed crater humans have ever discovered in the solar system.
NASA’s Webb Reveals Dynamic Panorama of Star Formation
The star-forming region IC 348 is located just 1,000 light-years away in the constellation Perseus. In regions like IC 348, cold clouds of molecular hydrogen gas collapse to form new stars.
NASA’s Hubble, Webb Find Far-out Solar System Objects ‘Remember’ Past
For the first time, scientists used the joint power of NASA’s Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes to study some of the most far-flung bodies in our solar system, Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs). Some of these are the smallest and faintest ever directly seen.
A Revolution Has Come in the First of the Big Bang’s 4 Cornerstones
The expanding Universe, CMB, and large-scale structure revealed the Big Bang. New nucleosynthesis advances deliver unprecedented precision.
Did Venus Swallow Its Moon?
New simulations show that our now-moonless neighbor might once have had a satellite, but the moon crashed back into it.
Second Saturday Science Returns for September!
To kick off Fall, we’re excited to have guest presenter Marshall Bonow for an engaging and fun event, “The Magic of Science”! With a combination of science talk plus magic show, Marshall shares fascinating scientific concepts and a magical scenario to demonstrate the power of scientific phenomenon.