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Bonney Lake Stargazing

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Public

Type: Star Party

Keywords: Stargazing Star Party Bonney Lake

Held on: Apr 19, 2025 (Sat) at 08:00 PM to Apr 19, 2025 (Sat) at 11:59 PM

Sunset Times:

  • Official at 08:03 PM
  • Civil at 08:35 PM
  • Nautical at 09:15 PM
  • Astronomical at 09:59 PM

Lunar Phase:

Location: 17679 Cascadia Boulevard East, Bonney Lake, WA 98391

Event Coordinator: Anthony Vescio

Overview

This is our new location for the Bonney Lake star party. Come out to Discovery Park in Tehaleh and enjoy some stargazing with members of the Seattle Astronomical Society (SAS). Everyone is welcome.

Experienced astronomer volunteers from the Seattle Astronomical Society (SAS) bring their telescopes and binoculars to share with the public.

This will be our last opportunity to see Jupiter until late fall. Mars will be hanging high in the sky. Our favorite Orion constellation is also on it's way out but you might be able to get a last glimpe of the Orion nebula and the Pleaides before it sets.

  • It gets chilly at night so dress warm and bring a comfy chair to sit in and a warm drink. If you have your own telescope or binoculars bring it.
  • This site does have a lot of mosquitoes so you may want to wear long sleeves and apply mosquito spray.
  • Before you arrive make sure you have installed one of the free planetarium apps on your phone such as SkySafari, Stellarium, or Star Walk 2.

 

Check the SAS website < www.seattleastro.org > frequently for stargazing event status.  If weather conditions force cancellation of an event, that news will be posted not later that 4PM the day of the event.

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Latitude 47.1262223, Longitude -122.193435

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Please take care to maintain dark protocol, we want all observers to enjoy the event.

  • Arrive before dark to set up and park so your headlights are facing away from the telescope field.
  • Computer displays are set to minimum brightness, dark/night/warm mode. If possible place laptops in a box to contain any light. Face display away from visual observers. I also bring a towel to cover the front ofthe box when not looking at the display, this helps keep the box warm and reduce dew.
  • Tablets and phones need to have brightness turned to a minimum with night mode on.
  • Cover all LED indicator lights with a piece of tape, these things can get bright at night.

 

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