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Welcome to the Door Peninsula Astronomical Society


Located in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, DPAS is a local club and a chapter of the Astronomical League. We are a member of the International Dark Sky Association as well as the Night Sky Network, a teaching arm of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.

We meet monthly on the first Tuesday of the month at the Ray and Ruthie Stonecipher Astronomy Center. From Highway 42/57, turn east on Utah Street to Cove Road (stop sign) and turn left through the gate. Click here for a map.

We operate and maintain the Leif Everson Observatory. This is equipped with a 14” Schmidt-Cassegrain Telescope on a state-of-the-art robotic mount, a weather station and a budding project in radio astronomy. On a portable mount is a 102mm refractor with a hydrogen alpha filter for studying details of activity on the sun.

The Star Garden at the observatory is used for viewing the sky with unaided vision, binoculars and members’ telescopes. There are also binocular mounts set in concrete which allow people of various heights to share the same view.

Click here to download a membership form and become a member of the DPAS.

Call 746-5896 to see if viewing is open!

We don’t always have ideal skies on scheduled viewing nights. Some nights when it’s not a scheduled viewing night the conditions happen to be favorable for viewing. We’re now set up to accommodate those situations.

• On scheduled viewing nights the gate will be open. If it is not good viewing, there will be a program at the Ray & Ruthie Stonecipher Astronomy Center.

• On other nights, one of us may have opened the gate and set up some viewing equipment. People can just call 746-5896 to see if the gate is open. If so, come out and share in the fun!

• Ray Stonecipher will be at the Ray & Ruthie Stonecipher Astronomy Center every Saturday morning. You are more than welcome to come out, look at items in the library at the Center, ask questions, or just chat.

May Board Meeting
DPAS Newsnightowl writes "The May meeting of the DPAS Board will be held one week late, on May 20 instead of May 13. Location is still the Ray and Ruthie Stonecipher Astronomy Center, time 7 PM."
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