Showing posts with label stars. Show all posts
Showing posts with label stars. Show all posts

Star gazing at Paramount School Park Saturday March 2, 2024 - weather permitting

Wednesday, February 28, 2024


Star gazing at Paramount School Park Saturday March 2, 2024, 15300 8th Ave NE, Shoreline WA 98155

This public star party is authorized by the city of Shoreline, Parks & Recreation Department and is free of charge.

Experienced astronomers from the Seattle Astronomical Society (SAS) volunteer their time and telescopes and binoculars to share with the public. Everyone is welcome including families with children.

The Moon is near its "third quarter" phase and as such the Moon does not rise until near or after midnight making Shoreline skies particularly dark and favorable for the star party.

Sunset Times:
  • Official at 05:56 PM
  • Civil at 06:27 PM
  • Nautical at 07:03 PM
  • Astronomical at 07:39 PM

Check the SAS website www.seattleastro.org frequently for star party event status. If weather conditions force cancellation of an event, that news will be posted not later than 4pm the day of the event.

Visit the SAS website for other Puget Sound star party events, and for outreach opportunities, meetings and membership information.

Held on: Mar 02, 2024 (Sat) at 06:00pm to Mar 02, 2024 (Sat) at 11:00pm


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Poem:Photo - The Star Strewn Sky

Monday, February 26, 2024

Stars. Photo by Carl Dinse

The Star Strewn Sky

I miss the stars. I miss The Big Dipper, The Little Dipper,
The North Star. All easy to identify.
But most of all I miss Orion.
It was always the first constellation I saw when I looked up
And the last to diminish towards dawn.

Orion used to watch over me on my way home after night meetings.
I’d look out the car window and look up and there he’d be
Tipped a little sideways as always.

I don’t know, but I wonder
If Dad didn’t write us from the wartime South Pacific, and say,
“When you’re lonesome, just look up at Orion the warrior.
I’ll be doing the same from here under
And we’ll meet over the wash grey blue.
I’ll watch out for you.”

Have you ever looked up at the stars and lost your stress?
Perhaps in the wilderness or from a mountain’s height?
I don’t see stars anymore coming home from meetings
Or looking up from my yard, even the planets are gone.
Sightings have gradually diminished into nothingness.

Have you ever seen the star-studded big sky in Montana?
Stopped and then turned off the headlights?
Another brightness appears above.
From a country road’s blackness a star-encrusted panorama,
A mess of brilliant scattered diamonds
Thick and shimmering in the great overhead.
“Look at us! Look at us! We’re here!” they seemed to say.

How can stars be millions, billions, trillions of light years away
Yet feel so intimate?


Vicki Westberg Feb. 12, 2024


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