There was a great turnout on August 21, 2017 at the Martz-Kohl Observatory for the very impressive Solar Eclipse, Nice weather and seeing contributed to the event.

There was a great turnout on August 21, 2017 at the Martz-Kohl Observatory for the very impressive Solar Eclipse, Nice weather and seeing contributed to the event.



Comet Hartley 2, 103P/Hartley, is a small periodic comet with an orbital period of 6.46 years. Next appearance will be April 20, 2017

On March 8, we held a special presentation with Guest Speaker, Laurie Abadie a NASA Human Space Flight Specialist.


Barnard’s Star is a very-low-mass red dwarf about six light-years away from Earth in the constellation of Ophiuchus.

NGC 869 is an open cluster located 7600 light years away in the constellation of Perseus.