St. Petersburg Astronomy Club

Comet R3 is brightening rapidly -- will it survive? C/2025 R3 (PanSTARRS) has been slowly brightening and extending an ion tail since its discovery last year. This shedding mountain of dirty ice puts on its best sky show this month, though, because it passes its closest to both the Sun (April 19) …

Upcoming Events

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OBSERVATION

Withlacoochee New Moon Weekend

This is our Club's month New Moon camping/viewing event at the Withlacoochee River County Park near Dade City

Fri, Apr 17, 2026

7:29 PM

Withlacoochee River Park

Free

Outreach

SPAC Outreach at Keel Farms

This is our first public outreach event at Keel & Curley Farm and Winery. The event was originally scheduled back in February but Mother Nature made us reschedule. Come join for an evening of stargazing and wine!