Join us at Pokagon State Park for a magical night under the stars! ✨ Enjoy telescope viewing and an engaging educational program as we explore the wonders of the night sky together.
✨ The Perseids are back! ✨
Each August, Earth passes through debris left by Comet Swift-Tuttle, creating one of the best meteor showers of the year. The Perseids produce bright, fast meteors that remind us how dynamic and beautiful our solar system truly is.
Why watch them?
🌌 It connects us to the bigger universe, seeing comet dust light up our skies.
🌌 It’s a perfect summer moment under the stars.
🌌 It’s simply one of the most reliable and beautiful celestial events you can witness with your own eyes.
Join us for a Perseids Star Party and experience it together:
📅 Saturday, August 9
🕘 Programs at 9 PM, 10 PM, 11 PM
📍 Star*Quest Observatory during Saturday public observing
✅ Learn why and how the Perseids happen
✅ Get meteor shower viewing tips
✅ Enjoy telescope views of the night sky while we wait for meteors
✅ Bring a chair, blanket, and your curiosity
The event is free and family-friendly. Whether you’re a long-time observer or just want to experience something beautiful, we’d love to have you with us.
Eclipse begins at 1:54pm and ends at 4:25pm
Deep Sky Star Parties
Deep Sky observing events are scheduled for FWAS members and their guests to observe the fainter objects in the sky from a location away from city lights. These events are closed to the general public to allow members to plan observing and photography projects that will be undisturbed. Each date is scheduled on the Friday closest to the new moon each month.
This event’s starting time is an hour after sunset, but you are free to arrive as early or late as you’d like and stay as long as you want.
If you want to use an observatory scope, contact Observatory Director Neil Ainslie at 260-740-9162 to reserve a time slot.
Deep Sky Star Parties
Deep Sky observing events are scheduled for FWAS members and their guests to observe the fainter objects in the sky from a location away from city lights. These events are closed to the general public to allow members to plan observing and photography projects that will be undisturbed. Each date is scheduled on the Friday closest to the new moon each month.
This event’s starting time is an hour after sunset, but you are free to arrive as early or late as you’d like and stay as long as you want.
If you want to use an observatory scope, contact Observatory Director Neil Ainslie at 260-740-9162 to reserve a time slot.
Deep Sky Star Parties
Deep Sky observing events are scheduled for FWAS members and their guests to observe the fainter objects in the sky from a location away from city lights. These events are closed to the general public to allow members to plan observing and photography projects that will be undisturbed. Each date is scheduled on the Friday closest to the new moon each month.
This event’s starting time is an hour after sunset, but you are free to arrive as early or late as you’d like and stay as long as you want.
If you want to use an observatory scope, contact Observatory Director Neil Ainslie at 260-740-9162 to reserve a time slot.
Deep Sky Star Parties
Deep Sky observing events are scheduled for FWAS members and their guests to observe the fainter objects in the sky from a location away from city lights. These events are closed to the general public to allow members to plan observing and photography projects that will be undisturbed. Each date is scheduled on the Friday closest to the new moon each month.
This event’s starting time is an hour after sunset, but you are free to arrive as early or late as you’d like and stay as long as you want.
If you want to use an observatory scope, contact Observatory Director Neil Ainslie at 260-740-9162 to reserve a time slot.
Deep Sky Star Parties
Deep Sky observing events are scheduled for FWAS members and their guests to observe the fainter objects in the sky from a location away from city lights. These events are closed to the general public to allow members to plan observing and photography projects that will be undisturbed. Each date is scheduled on the Friday closest to the new moon each month.
This event’s starting time is an hour after sunset, but you are free to arrive as early or late as you’d like and stay as long as you want.
If you want to use an observatory scope, contact Observatory Director Neil Ainslie at 260-740-9162 to reserve a time slot.
Deep Sky Star Parties
Deep Sky observing events are scheduled for FWAS members and their guests to observe the fainter objects in the sky from a location away from city lights. These events are closed to the general public to allow members to plan observing and photography projects that will be undisturbed. Each date is scheduled on the Friday closest to the new moon each month.
This event’s starting time is an hour after sunset, but you are free to arrive as early or late as you’d like and stay as long as you want.
If you want to use an observatory scope, contact Observatory Director Neil Ainslie at 260-740-9162 to reserve a time slot.
Deep Sky Star Parties
Deep Sky observing events are scheduled for FWAS members and their guests to observe the fainter objects in the sky from a location away from city lights. These events are closed to the general public to allow members to plan observing and photography projects that will be undisturbed. Each date is scheduled on the Friday closest to the new moon each month.
This event’s starting time is an hour after sunset, but you are free to arrive as early or late as you’d like and stay as long as you want.
If you want to use an observatory scope, contact Observatory Director Neil Ainslie at 260-740-9162 to reserve a time slot.
Speaker: Tom Field
Location: PFW campus, Walb Student Union room 114
Speaker Bio: Tom Field was a Contributing Editor at Sky & Telescope Magazine from 2011 to 2021. He is the author of the RSpec software (rspec-astro.com) which received the S&T “Hot Product” award. Tom is a popular speaker who has spoken to hundreds of clubs via the web and in-person at many conferences, including NEAF, the NEAF Imaging Conference, the Winter Star Party, the Advanced Imaging Conference, and others.
Deep Sky Star Parties
Deep Sky observing events are scheduled for FWAS members and their guests to observe the fainter objects in the sky from a location away from city lights. These events are closed to the general public to allow members to plan observing and photography projects that will be undisturbed. Each date is scheduled on the Friday closest to the new moon each month.
This event’s starting time is an hour after sunset, but you are free to arrive as early or late as you’d like and stay as long as you want.
If you want to use an observatory scope, contact Observatory Director Neil Ainslie at 260-740-9162 to reserve a time slot.
Members and guests are welcome to share and discuss anything of an astronomical nature with the group! Astronomy books, gear, articles, observation reports, ideas, projects, astrophotography, short videos, etc.
Join Zoom Meeting
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Meeting ID: 879 6089 3499
Passcode: 288496
Speaker: Bill Rujevcan, FWAS member
Location: PFW campus, Walb Student Union room 114
In this meeting Bill will share a presentation about the eVscope 2, a telescope/camera combo that can be easily controlled with an iPhone app. He will then set up a demonstration outdoors so attendees can see the scope in action and choose objects to navigate to through the app (weather permitting.)
We are looking for volunteers to help run the observatory telescopes during Saturday Night Stargazing events. Trained volunteers can sign up to operate telescopes on clear Saturday nights April-November. FWAS members that have been trained to run the scopes may use the observatory telescopes for personal observing.
RSVP REQUIRED
Contact observatory director Neil Ainslie to RSVP:
Email - sciencepastorneil@gmail.com
Call/text - 260-740-9162
Rain or shine. If no one RSVPs, the class is canceled.
Speaker: Susan Johnson, NASA Speakers Bureau
Location: PFW campus, Walb Student Union room 114
We are looking for volunteers to help run the observatory telescopes during Saturday Night Stargazing events. Trained volunteers can sign up to operate telescopes on clear Saturday nights April-November. FWAS members that have been trained to run the scopes may use the observatory telescopes for personal observing.
RSVP REQUIRED
Contact observatory director Neil Ainslie to RSVP:
Email - sciencepastorneil@gmail.com
Call/text - 260-740-9162
Rain or shine. If no one RSVPs, the class is canceled.
We are looking for volunteers to help run the observatory telescopes during Saturday Night Stargazing events. Trained volunteers can sign up to operate telescopes on clear Saturday nights April-November. FWAS members that have been trained to run the scopes may use the observatory telescopes for personal observing.
RSVP REQUIRED
Contact observatory director Neil Ainslie to RSVP:
Email - sciencepastorneil@gmail.com
Call/text - 260-740-9162
Rain or shine. If no one RSVPs, the class is canceled.
Speaker: Mike Arata, FWAS Vice President
Location: PFW campus, Walb Student Union room 114
December’s monthly meeting is a potluck dinner! Fort Wayne Astronomical Society members and their guests are invited to bring food and and and share a meal together just before the holidays.
Location TBA
Deep sky observing events are scheduled for FWAS members and their guests to observe the fainter objects in the sky from a location away from city lights. These events are closed to the general public to allow members to plan observing and photography projects that will be undisturbed. Each date is scheduled on the Friday closest to the new moon each month.
This event’s starting time is an hour after sunset, but you are free to arrive as early or late as you’d like and stay as long as you want.
If you want to use an observatory scope, contact Observatory Director Neil Ainslie at 260-740-9162 to reserve a time slot.
Deep sky observing events are scheduled for FWAS members and their guests to observe the fainter objects in the sky from a location away from city lights. These events are closed to the general public to allow members to plan observing and photography projects that will be undisturbed. Each date is scheduled on the Friday closest to the new moon each month.
This event’s starting time is an hour after sunset, but you are free to arrive as early or late as you’d like and stay as long as you want.
If you want to use an observatory scope, contact Observatory Director Neil Ainslie at 260-740-9162 to reserve a time slot.
Join us at the Purdue Fort Wayne at WU 114 in Walb Student Union Building. Greg Gallagher from Muncie will be the speaker. The topic is Supermassive black hole at the center of active galactic nuclei. Greg is a Graduate student at Ball State Department of Physics and Astronomy.
Deep sky observing events are scheduled for FWAS members and their guests to observe the fainter objects in the sky from a location away from city lights. These events are closed to the general public to allow members to plan observing and photography projects that will be undisturbed. Each date is scheduled on the Friday closest to the new moon each month.
This event’s starting time is an hour after sunset, but you are free to arrive as early or late as you’d like and stay as long as you want.
If you want to use an observatory scope, contact Observatory Director Neil Ainslie at 260-740-9162 to reserve a time slot.
Deep sky observing events are scheduled for FWAS members and their guests to observe the fainter objects in the sky from a location away from city lights. These events are closed to the general public to allow members to plan observing and photography projects that will be undisturbed. Each date is scheduled on the Friday closest to the new moon each month.
This event’s starting time is an hour after sunset, but you are free to arrive as early or late as you’d like and stay as long as you want.
If you want to use an observatory scope, contact Observatory Director Neil Ainslie at 260-740-9162 to reserve a time slot.
Deep sky observing events are scheduled for FWAS members and their guests to observe the fainter objects in the sky from a location away from city lights. These events are closed to the general public to allow members to plan observing and photography projects that will be undisturbed. Each date is scheduled on the Friday closest to the new moon each month.
This event’s starting time is an hour after sunset, but you are free to arrive as early or late as you’d like and stay as long as you want.
If you want to use an observatory scope, contact Observatory Director Neil Ainslie at 260-740-9162 to reserve a time slot.
Deep sky observing events are scheduled for FWAS members and their guests to observe the fainter objects in the sky from a location away from city lights. These events are closed to the general public to allow members to plan observing and photography projects that will be undisturbed. Each date is scheduled on the Friday closest to the new moon each month.
This event’s starting time is an hour after sunset, but you are free to arrive as early or late as you’d like and stay as long as you want.
If you want to use an observatory scope, contact Observatory Director Neil Ainslie at 260-740-9162 to reserve a time slot.
FORT WAYNE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
PO Box 11093 | Fort Wayne, IN 46855
Star*Quest Observatory | Jefferson Township Park
1730 Webster Road, New Haven, IN 46774
