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The PA Wilds Astronomy Club received a grant from the Tabor Foundation earlier this year to build a Sunscan Spectroheliograph. The grant allowed us to purchase optical and electronic parts for this device, and club members pitched in by providing 3D printed parts, loading the software onto the Raspberry Pi that collects and processes the…

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This winter, the club has moved meetings to be at the new Patterson Trailhead building on Charleston Street in Wellsboro. The meetings are in the conference room–go in the main doors, go left, and the door to the conference room will be on your left. As the room has a big video monitor with casting…

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The following are a list of the interesting astronomical events for 2026 in the PWAC region: March 3: Total lunar eclipse: low in western sky, partial starts at4:50 AM on a Tuesday, total at 6:04 AM, mid-eclipse at 6:33 AM. Moonsetis at 6:38 followed a few minutes later by sunrise. You’ll need alocation with a…

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Members of the Pennsylvania Wilds Astronomy Club now can sign out club-owned loaner telescopes. Currently a Meade 90 mm Maksutov reflector is available (best for planets, the moon, and double stars). A standard Orion StarBlast “Library” telescope will soon join it–we just need to complete modifications into the standard library configuration at a future work-session.…

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The Portable Sky Monitoring System, aka “Possums”, was deployed at Mill Cove Nature Center on Friday, March 21, 2025. The video produced by the all-sky camera showed nice images of zodiacal light, produced by the unique geometry of the early evening sky near the equinox and dust in the solar system. Look at the west…

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In response to many requests at our public events, we’ve made a list of astronomy resources in and around the Pennsylvania Wilds Region. See the link to that page a the bottom. If you have any additions or changes, please let us know.

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