Come Join KVAS / WVAA / and CVT at our Messier Marathon on March 29, 2025, and work on earning a certificate or a pin from the Astronomical League. We will have a punch list of objects and the order to view the 110 objects to maximize the number you can see. Earning the awards from the Astronomical League requires some dedication to get the number required. We also have certificates for the casual observer…
KVAS has had an explosion of changes in 2023-2024! We have changed domains to KVASWV.ORG and migrated an older development site to be our new website. The new platform is still under construction and the data that was migrated was set up in 2022. We have completed our second observatory the Waugh-Haxton Observatory which houses a very historic telescope, tripled our concrete pad area for star parties. and setup area for telescopes. With the help…
A new Supernova is in our night sky! photo credit: Member Bill Brown A new Supernova is in our night sky! This image was taken on May 31, 2023, in Tornado WV, a Bortle 4/5 area and has 4 hours of integration time. The image was captured with a Celestron 11″ SCT with a ZWO 294MC camera.A supernova is what happens when a star has reached the end of its life and explodes in a…
A luminary vigil was held at the observatory for Leah Strickland from Herbert Hoover by friends after a church star party held on Sat Oct 15th 2022.
