Warren County Astronomical Society

05/11/2026

Our new telescope kit is ready to be checked out! 💫🔭

05/08/2026

Discover the best deep-sky astrophotography targets for each season, from the Orion Nebula in winter to the Milky Way core in summer.

05/06/2026

What's Up in the Spring Sky?

Saturday, May 9
7-11 pm
Fred Bay Observatory
Hisey Park

Tour with us to discover all the constellations and galaxies visible during May and June.

The presentation by our amateur astronomers will be offered indoors before sunset. Afterward, if the weather and skies cooperate, we'll open the Fred Bay Observatory for stargazing.

Free and open to the public.

Visitors are encouraged to bring lawn chairs as seating outside near the observatory is limited.

Members will set up personal telescopes and share night sky views.

Warren County Astronomical Society Warren County Park District

05/03/2026

There's a lot of talk on Facebook tonight about these lights in the sky tonight... Don't worry they aren't aliens, they are Starlink Satellites.

Right after deployment, they haven’t spread out yet, so they follow each other closely like cars on a highway. Over time, each satellite uses small onboard thrusters to gradually move into its own assigned orbit, spacing themselves evenly around Earth. Once that happens, the “train” effect disappears.

If you took pictures, post them in the comments!

05/01/2026

ALCON 2026 is coming this Summer and for anyone interested in learning more, we will be on the Astronomical League LIVE (AL LIVE) tonight talking about it. Also on the podcast will be one of our featured speakers for ALCON 2026, Pranvera Hyseni. She will be on tonight presenting on "Chasing Asteroid Shadows: The Science of Stellar Occultations."

Check us out tonight at 7PM

The event will be posted on The Astronomical League's page tonight just before the podcast begins.

https://www.facebook.com/Astronomical.League/

04/30/2026

04/29/2026

We've partnered with Cincinnati astronomer Dean Regas to donate telescopes to the Franklin-Springboro Public Library and the Mason Public Library.

The easy-to-use telescopes are available free of charge for library patrons to check out, just like they borrow books, videos, and other materials.

Included with the telescopes are instructions, astronomy books, and a sky map to help people navigate the night sky.

Read the announcement: https://wcas-oh.org/wcas-donates-telescopes-to-libraries/

04/26/2026

04/26/2026

ASTRONOMICAL LEAGUE LIVE!
Friday May 1, 2026
7 pm EDT

Pranvera Hyseni
"Chasing Asteroid Shadows:
The Science of
Stellar Occultations"

with host Terry Mann, AL VP

Also

Chuck Allen
John Goss
Don Knabb
Bryan Simpson David Levy
Scott Roberts

Watch Live Stream or Recorded:
Explorescientific.com/live, or
www.facebook.com/Astronomical.League