Night sky time lapse & star trails in freezing weather 4./5.12.2021

The annual Arcturus Star Party of Porin Karhunvartijat was organized this year in the first weekend of December 2021, which was from 3th to 5th of December. The event location also this time was Koivuranta camp site in the southern shore of Lake Sääksjärvi (which is actually an ancient meteor impact crater) in municipality of …

Karhukamera – realtime skycam in Ulvila Observatory

Karhukamera (lit. The Bear Cam), the realtime skycamera of Porin Karhunvartijat, the local astronomical club of Pori, Finland is online! The camera is located on the top of Ulvila Observatory in Ulvila, Finland. This is actually the second incarnation of Karhukamera, (Karhukamera 2.0) and it has been online since late 2020. The first version of …

Porin Karhunvartijat 45 years

My local astronomy club Porin Karhunvartijat (can be translated as The Bootes of Pori, literally The Bearwatchers of Pori) was established in 1974, which means that in 2019 the club is celebrating it's 45th birthday! To celebrate the birthday, public event with lectures, music and photography exhibition was organized in the Central Library of Pori …

The 40th anniversary of Porin Karhunvartijat

Porin Karhunvartijat is a local astronomy club in city of Pori in western coast of Finland. Porin Karhunvartijat have an observatory and club house in the top of water tower of Ulvila, a small town 10 kilometres southwest of Pori. Porin Karhunvartijat was my local amateur astronomy club when I was a kid in late …

The new committee of Porin Karhunvartijat has had it’s start-up meeting

The new committee of Porin Karhunvartijat (which was elected in the association meeting in December last year) has had it's start-up meeting. The meeting was organized 4.2.2012 in the Ulvila observatory. People in the committee are the same than last year except one new member of committee, Raimo Peltomäki. The new committee is: Kari Laihia, …

Meeting of Porin Karhunvartijat

My local astronomy club Porin Karhunvartijat had it's traditional wintertime meeting in 10.12.2010 in Otsola Opisto, Pori, Finland. In that meeting, a action plan for year 2011 was presented. Also new board of association was chosen. There did not happen any big changes in the board, only the secretary of board was changed. The meeting …