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gregnj.bsky.social
#ThePleiades #astronomy #astrophotography #stellafane #stellafane2026 #SeeStarS30Pro
August 17, 2026 at 9:26 PM
gregnj.bsky.social
#AndromedaGalaxy #astronomy #astrophotography #stellafane #stellafane2026 #SeeStars30Pro
August 17, 2026 at 9:21 PM
2winterswoods.bsky.social
Views of the day
Stellafane
(by D)
August 14, 2026 at 11:38 PM
katrinamillerphd.bsky.social
an eclipse, 100th anniversary of stellafane, roman telescope launch, potential dark matter event - whew! what a month for space reporters
September 1, 2026 at 8:34 PM
2winterswoods.bsky.social
Today at Stellafane
Springfield, Vermont
August 14, 2026 at 11:27 PM
2winterswoods.bsky.social
Waiting for sun
Stellafane
August 14, 2026 at 11:31 PM
2winterswoods.bsky.social
Today at Stellafane
Springfield, Vermont
early afternoon
August 15, 2026 at 11:05 PM
2winterswoods.bsky.social
Gathered round the scopes at Stellafane

(by D)
August 15, 2026 at 11:34 PM
proportionwheel.bsky.social
🔭Jim Daley continues to capture incredible solar prominence images, using his home-made coronagraph. Here are several as published on the Stellafane web site. Be sure to click each image to see it larger and read the captions.

stellafane.org/observing/as...
Stellafane: Jim Daley's Astrophotos
Stellafane: Astrophotos of Jim Daley
stellafane.org
January 31, 2026 at 10:31 PM
dereklowe.bsky.social
Getting ready for some stargazing in the hills of Vermont at the annual Stellafane get-together. This looked like the only clear night, so I changed plans and came up earlier.
July 25, 2025 at 1:20 AM
proportionwheel.bsky.social
🔭Stellafane is one of the coolest places on the planet. More people should know about it, so I’m reposting this, which I promise you is worth 2:44 of your time. The place is 88 acres with multiple observatories. Much more at stellafane.org — dig the groovy retro website style. That site is HUGE.
August 5, 2025 at 1:25 AM
joegeiger.bsky.social
Had 2 glorious nights under the stars at Stellafane in Springfield, VT this weekend. #Astronomy 🔭
A night scene at Stellafane’s Breuning observatory. The Milky Way rises from the dome of the observatory like steam. Red light illuminates the inside. Stellafane’s Pink Clubhouse is a national historic landmark. Fred my fox red lab is laying down in front as visitors take a break from the heat. Looking North on Breezy Hill at Stellafane in Springfield, VT. The Porter Turret and the Cook Spectrohelioscope are 2 instruments at this location.
July 28, 2025 at 11:57 AM
proportionwheel.bsky.social
🔭This image is now available for download (up to 25mb, though still reduced size from original) at the Stellafane web site: stellafane.org/news/index.h...
September 13, 2025 at 12:51 PM
2winterswoods.bsky.social
Highlights of the day at Stellafane:

Homemade or historic telescopes competition; 6-inch homemade refractor; 5-inch Marsh refractor abt 1880; also solar observing 🌻by me
August 15, 2026 at 11:30 PM
proportionwheel.bsky.social
🔭The most public-facing aspect of Stellafane is the Stellafane Convention, held each summer. This year’s keynote speaker was Dr. Stephen Sekula, of SNOLAB. He posted about the Porter Turret Telescope, the odd thing in the background of the video below.

mastodon.cooleysekula.net/@steve/11493...
August 5, 2025 at 8:52 PM
proportionwheel.bsky.social
🔭 going through old papers I found this, from 1962. That’s me with my ’scope.
I cannot reproduce all the text here, but this is a Rutland Herald article about the 1962 Stellafane Convention, where my homemade ’scope won an award. There’s a picture of my 15yo self and the ’scope. My anonymity is very weak, and of course this destroys any remnant of it.
December 16, 2025 at 3:49 AM
proportionwheel.bsky.social
Me at about 16 c.1963 with the telescope I made, at Stellafane
A 6" astronomical Newtonian telescope I built in my teens, in front of the iconic pink Stellafane clubhouse, with it’s low stone wall in front, and people gathered around or on it. The dweeb is me. Ledge poking through sparse grass. That place (a National Historic Landmark) still looks pretty much exactly the same but the trees behind the building are either gone or much bigger. The iron post the telescope mount is on is still there.
September 4, 2026 at 12:36 AM
westportastro.bsky.social
🚨 Aug 19, 8 PM! 🚨 Join us LIVE at the Westport Observatory or online via YouTube & Zoom for Tales from the Pink Clubhouse: Bob Meadows’ 2025 Stellafane Report! Stories, highlights & surprises from the ultimate telescope maker’s convention. was-ct.org/events/bo...
Bob Meadows talks Stellafane!
August 6, 2025 at 1:23 AM
proportionwheel.bsky.social
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Stellafane Convention attendees relax at the actual Stellafane, “shrine to the stars.” Much of the convention takes place at the nearby 80-acre Stellafane East campus, but the savvier guests come to pay respects to the century-old birthplace of popular amateur astronomy.
The original Stellafane, a little pink clubhouse designed by Russell Porter, who founded the Springfield Telescope Makers and went on to help design the 200" Hale Telescope at Palomar. The clubhouse sits atop Breezy Hill in Springfield, VT. A group of convention attendees relax on around the stone wall in front of the building. The oxbow hanging over the entrance is an ancient tradition rooted in its resemblance to the apparent figure of a paraboloidal telescope mirror under foucault testing.
August 3, 2024 at 4:30 PM
joegeiger.bsky.social
Here is a view near the center of the Milky Way in the southern sky I took with a 135mm camera lens at Stellafane in Springfield VT. It’s a smorgasbord of deep sky objects with M16, M17, M24, M25 & many others. This was about 2.75 hrs of data imaged with no filters. 🔭 #Astrophotography
This closeup near the center of our galaxy, the Milky Way, shows many bright and dark nebulae, star clusters and galactic dust clouds.
August 6, 2025 at 2:32 PM
dereklowe.bsky.social
For my fellow amateur astronomers in the Northeast, the registration for Stellafane is now open. It's August 1-4 in Springfield, VT, and features >1000 attendees, many of whom bring their own telescopes (some of them homemade). And the skies are darker than they are around Boston, for sure (!)
Stellafane 2024 Convention Registration
The 2024 Stellafane Convention hosted by the Springfield Telescope Makers Inc. in Springfield, Vermont, USA is an amatuer astronomy convention with an emphasis on telescope making.
stellafane.org
April 27, 2024 at 10:08 PM
proportionwheel.bsky.social
🔭Stellafane Convention coming up! If you’re into astronomy and haven’t attended Convention, time to make it happen—you won’t regret it.

Spiffy new website, too:

www.stellafanevt.org
Stellafane | astronomy convention
Stellafane, home of the Springfield Telescope Makers, hosts the annual Stellafane Convention, the Original Star Party.
www.stellafanevt.org
May 15, 2026 at 5:25 PM
proportionwheel.bsky.social
🔭Snowing at Stellafane, too. (screenshots from webcams)
view from Stellafane clubhouse north toward the Porter Turret Telescope and the Simoni Observatory, which houses our Hale/Porter spectrohelioscope. View from the Porter Turret Telescope of the Stellafane Clubhouse, the century-old home of the Springfield Telescope Makers. The clubhouse is famously pink.
January 7, 2024 at 7:13 PM
skyandtelescope.bsky.social
The legendary Stellafane Convention has been blowing away expectations for an entire century, and plans are in place to make sure it continues to do so for another 100 years.
skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-ne...
Stellafane or Bust
The legendary Stellafane has been blowing away expectations for a century, and plans are in place to make sure it continues to do so.
skyandtelescope.org
August 31, 2026 at 2:18 PM
proportionwheel.bsky.social
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1/2: I saw this trailer; tears welled up. I know everyone on camera here; they are such great people. The only quibble I have with the trailer is that it makes it look like the whole focus of the Stellafane convention... < stellafane.org/convention/2... > ...1/2
www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_65...
Stellafane and Beyond - Trailer 05-27-24
A historic pink clubhouse in Vermont holds 100+ years of amateur telescope making history, and is the key to the development of astronomy, optics, and space ...
www.youtube.com
July 9, 2024 at 10:38 PM