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October 2026
Second Saturday Science Talk: Smart Telescopes
Save your seat for an insightful deep dive into Smart Telescopes with special guest speaker & BPAA member, Norris Washington!
BPO Book Club, October 27: Find Where the Wind Goes
Battle Point Observatory rounds out our inspiring three-part fall book club on Women Who Changed the Universe on Tuesday, October 27 over Zoom at 6:00 pm. This final meeting we’ll discuss Find Where the Wind Goes: Moments From My Life by Dr. Mae Jemison.
Haunted Hayride Returns to Battle Point Park
The annual spooky & family-friendly tradition continues! Haunted Hayride will be at Battle Point Park on October 20-22, 5:30 pm – 9:00 pm. This year’s theme is “Alien Invasion!”
BPO Gear Update: DWARF Mini Smart Telescope
You may have seen a new telescope in use at a recent Star Party, the DWARF Mini Smart Telescope. It’s pocket-sized (weighing only 840g) with an intelligent control system, and has been fun to use! The variety of smart tools and auto-tracking make it easy to take some great night sky images.
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.
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.