National Capital Astronomers

Exploring the Sky

Saturday, August 2, 2025

Event

We supply telescopes for the public to look through at celestial objects.  Cosponsored with the Nature Center of the National Park Service.  Event is cancelled if we can't see stars, i.e., it's cloudy or raining.  Parking is available next to the site.  Go to capitalastronomers.org for more information.

Date: Saturday, August 2, 2025

Location: Rock Creek Park
Corner of Glover & Military Rds
Washington, DC

Information for Visitors

Location Details

Rock Creek Park
Corner of Glover & Military Rds
Washington, DC
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Event Report

Comments and anecdotes about the event:
We had a planetarium show in the Rock Creek Park Nature Center prior to the observing with about 37 in attendance. There were five telescopes for observing and about 50 members of the public looking through the telescopes. Sky was just fair. There were some clouds which didn't completely clear up until we were leaving. People looked at the moon, M57, Albireo, M13 and, I think, someone had the Eagle Nebula.