Welcome to the
Cowichan Valley Starfinders
The Cowichan Valley Starfinders are a non-profit society who’s mandate is to promote and enjoy amateur astronomy in the Cowichan Valley on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
Monthly Club Socials
Socials are held the every month at 7:00pm to 9:00pm with the exception of July, August and December (dinner) and are usually hosted in Mill Bay. Come and enjoy a fun and informative social and maybe a little observing afterward.
The day and location of the meetings do change from month to month, check our events calendar for each month. https://starfinders.ca/events-calendar
Astronomy & Space News
- Antarctica Is the Best Place On Earth for a Telescope, Is Also the Hardest Place to Put a Telescope
- A Strange Planet has been Found that’s Smaller than Neptune But 50% More Massive
- NASA's Maven observes Martian night sky pulsing in ultraviolet light
- Martian Features Were Carved by Glaciers, not Flowing Rivers
- Potential New Targets for Japan's Hayabusa 2 Mission
- Hubble uses Earth as proxy for identifying oxygen on potentially habitable exoplanets
- New Solar Model Successfully Predicted Seven of the Sun’s Last Nine Big Flares
- NASA Astronauts are Back on Earth After a Successful Crew Dragon Splashdown
- Finally! SpaceX Starship Prototype SN5 Flies Just Over 150 Meters Into the Air
- Ammonia sparks unexpected, exotic lightning on Jupiter