MKSP 2025

Less than a single lunation until the start of MKSP 2025! This year’s star party begins at dusk on August 16 and goes eight nights until dawn on the 24th. We hope you can join us! The best of the summer Milky Way comes out at nightfall with Sagittarius culminating, the Summer Triangle high overhead, and Saturn rising in the east. On the first few nights, the moon is a legit target for late night observers, heralding the appearance of Jupiter and Venus among the constellations of winter, pre-dawn. Guest talks in the second half of the star party cover topics from telescopic imaging to sky-guiding in Africa, as well as the three-body problem (the physics thing, not the Netflix series…or the novel). Ken Hewitt-White returns with ‘Kobau Skies this Week’ on Wednesday afternoon, and Murray Paulson leads the way across the sky on his Binocular Star Walk, Thursday at nightfall (weather permitting).