MKSP in 3 weeks!

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This image is of the morning sky taken at the last MKSP in 2019.   For this all you need is a good cell phone camera, this shows the Milky Way in Perseus.  Also there is The Andromeda and Triangulum Galaxies.

Getting ready to do it again!

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Are you getting ready for MKSP?  The last time I took my rig out to BC was in 2019 for MKSP.  This was snapped on our way to the Star Party.  at the rest area just across the Kicking Horse …

Rise and Fall of the Mount Kobau Observatory Project

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Long before an observatory on Mt. Kobau was contemplated, Canadians were among the world’s leaders in visual astronomy. In 1910, a proposal for a 72” telescope came within a whisker of giving our young country the world’s largest telescope. Delayed …