i’ve been researching different astronomy star parties to attend for some good observing outside of illinois. while researching i found myself spending a lot of time compiling information i found through search engines and links on the internet. given how painful it was i decided to put it all together into one spot and make it available to others. so here it is:


public star parties — it’s a listing of all known astronomy star parties throughout the united states and canada. the link requires a standards based calendar application like apple ical (mac) or mozilla calendar (windows). you can also view the web version on my .mac account if you want.


if you know of a star party that isn’t in this list and should be, please let me know in the comments.