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
- Dust Devils Have Left Dark Streaks All Over This Martian Crater
- Nutrient-Poor and Energy-Starved. How Life Might Survive at the Extremes in the Solar System
- How Interferometry Works, and Why it’s so Powerful for Astronomy
- What Snuffed Out Star Formation in This “Monster” Galaxy?
- Japan Is Sending a Lander to Phobos
- SETI Researchers Release Petabytes of Data in the Search For Aliens
- Both Stars in This Binary System Have Accretion Disks Around Them
- Beyond the brim, Sombrero Galaxy's halo suggests turbulent past
- The Earth formed much faster than previously thought
- Sub-Neptune sized planet validated with the habitable-zone planet finder