Author: Admin
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BBVAS Newsletter April, 2025
Last month we were greeted with a spectacular event, a lunar eclipse also known as a blood moon. It is called a blood moon due to the deep red coloring of the moon when it enters the earths shadow for roughly 60 minutes. The next lunar eclipse that will visit our night sky will be…
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Comet Watch 2024
A rare brilliant comet (Comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) will become visible to us living in the northern hemisphere of planet earth beginning October 14, 2024 and on. This rare phenomenon will make it’s appearance to us at first very low on our western horizon and rising daily until it reaches around the orbit of Jupiter…
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Perseid Meteor Shower Star Party, August 10 at Ski Beach Park
The “Big Bear Valley Astronomical Society” will be holding their annual summer public Star Party at Ski Beach Park this August 10 during the peak of the Perseid Meteor Shower. Last year record crowds showed up with their chairs and blankets to spend the evening oohing and aahing at sights they had never seen before,…