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True North - Pointing the STAIRS

eahyde — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 03:15:43 +0000

The STAIRS or (Schmoyer-Type Adapted Interactive Reliable Sundial) is the newest member of the observatory outreach team. Installed Sep 16th, 2026 it is one of the largest high accuracy Sundials in North America. Part of that accuracy is due to it's positioning with relation to 'True North' the axis of rotation of our planet Earth. […]

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JWST - In Motion: A new home for our favorite JWST video

eahyde — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 02:11:51 +0000

What better way to get James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) data than to observe it yourself? Well, we thought of all the JWST data we could get and decided to get data of one of our favorite satellites as it travels in its orbit out past our Moon. In the below video, the James Webb […]

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Astro Fair 2026 - our biggest yet!

eahyde — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 21:18:16 +0000

This year we doubled the attendees and nearly doubled our participants for one of the biggest and best Astro Fair's yet! Although it should be noted this is in fact still only the 2nd Astro Fair (our first was 2025, and that adventure can be found here) our revised format meant that we had a […]

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