Updates
Season results, new points and field notes, newest first.
Sky in this banner: 19.63 mag/arcsec², Cefalù
Summer season 2026: haze, dust and one clear result
196 sessions at 28 points. Dust cost us some darkness in June, Palermo held steady, and the change at Ragusa Ibla is now hard to dismiss.
Perseids week: 41 sessions in six nights
The August new moon landed on the Perseid peak. It gave us our busiest week so far, and a small lesson from the beach at Mondello.
Your first session: a note for new volunteers
What to bring, what to do when you get there, and the five mistakes nearly everyone makes the first time.
New measuring point: Erice
TP-02 is our 28th point: 750 m above Trapani and about 4.7 times darker than the seafront, when the cloud lets us see it.
Palermo, district by district
Eight points, two new moons, 56 sessions. Ten kilometres and one mountain make the sky almost four times darker.
Winter season 2025–26: the numbers
148 sessions at 27 points, a best night of 21.71 at Piano Battaglia, and the first change big enough to take seriously.