Due to poor weather conditions and lack of available back up dates, the Fall 2025 Star party has been cancelled.
If you still want to get your Astronomy fix this weekend you can check out a few of the links below.
For a solid reference for any Astronomy related topics you can check out https://www.astronomycast.com/ which has around 1000 podcast covering almost everything in Astronomy or possibly visit https://www.universetoday.com/ which cover recent Astronomy related topics and even some space travel news.
For the moon you can view it at any time of the day at https://theskylive.com/moon-info
For the suns solar activity you can check out https://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/ or for general space weather conditions you can check out https://www.spaceweatherlive.com/
You can also check out NASA’s wonderful resources on the data we have on all the celestial objects in the sky at https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/
While we wish we could host more Star Parties each year, there are some fabulous alternatives. For Dark Sky Enthusiast you can check out the Charlotte Amateur Astronomers Club, which has a dark sky location about an hour’s drive from Charlotte https://nightsky.jpl.nasa.gov/clubs/caac/home/
For weather reports we often use https://www.cleardarksky.com/c/CharlotteNCkey.html along with other standard weather forecasting websites to get an idea of the possible range of condition
We look forward to seeing you for our Spring Star party which we will host in late April (with a backup date…)!
