Sunday, August 16, 2009

Dark Skies

5th Annual Silver Falls State Park Star Party
August 15, 2009
Silver Falls State Park
Silverton, OR

Oregon's State Parks and Recreation Department, Salem's cosmic gurus of Night Sky 45 and the volunteer group, Friends of Silver Falls conducted a mini (9PM-12AM) crash course in astronomy last night. We all had a great time learning the star gazing basics, looking through different types of telescopes and feeding on cookies and hot cocoa. The biggest treats of the night...seeing a shooting star and dancing with the free glow in the dark bracelets.

6 comments:

Lynette said...

Fantastic! Great fun for sure.

Don and Krise said...

Glad you got the chance to go. Great photo.

Hilda said...

If my father were still alive, he would have thoroughly enjoyed this event.

Your photo is amazing! You caught so many stars and it's wonderful.

Paty said...

that´ s so beautiful and misteriuos

cieldequimper said...

Mind boggling when you think at what's out there. And it's so beautiful too.

crocrodyl said...

Nice capture!