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
- RocketLab Recovers a First-Stage Booster for the First Time: “Return to Sender”
- A New Artist’s Illustration of the Extremely Large Telescope. So Many Lasers
- Catch Monday Morning’s Subtle Lunar Eclipse
- Space travel can adversely impact energy production in a cell
- Solar astronomers can now predict future sunspots. There should be a big one in a couple of days
- China’s Chang’e-5 Probe Is Off to Bring Back a Moon Sample — and NASA Hopes to See the Data
- Here’s what we know about Earth’s new minimoon
- At One Time, This Region of Mars was Inundated by a “Megaflood”
- Hubble Sees Dark Shadows That Could Be Cast by a Supermassive Black Hole
- Blast from the past