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Welcome to the Kansas Astronomical Observers (KAO) Website! Our organization exists to educate the public about, and to explore, the night sky and enjoy the wonders of the universe. Our members have a wide variety of interests ranging from astrophotography to crafting telescopes and more.

We meet monthly on the third Friday of the month. In the months of May through September we meet at Lake Afton Public Observatory. Meetings begin at 7:30PM. October through April meetings are conducted at the Great Plains Nature Center and also begin at 7:30PM. Visitors are always welcome at all meetings!

  • Lake Afton Public Observatory is located 20 Miles West of Wichita at MacArthur Road (39th Street South) and 247th Street West in Lake Afton County Park.
  • The Great Plains Nature Center is located at 6232 E. 29th Street North, in Wichita Kansas.

Summer Meetings are held at Lake Afton Public Observatory

25 Wednesday Apr 2012

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This is just a helpful reminder to Members and visitors alike that we are now in the Summer season and will be meeting at Lake Afton Public Observatory. During the summer (May thru September), KAO meets at the Lake Afton Public Observatory (247th and MacArthur Road). Members are encouraged to bring their own telescopes and set-up on the “observing pad” behind the observatory. The Lake Afton staff routinely advertises these Fridays as “Bring Your Own Telescope” night.

Our Next meeting will occur on Friday, May 18th @ 7:30 pm. As always visitors are always welcome. See you in May!

Site Maintenance

04 Wednesday Jan 2012

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We apologize for any inconvenience, but our site is under going some maintenance at the moment. We are implementing some new structure as well as changing around a few things and in order to do that, we must take the site offline. The interruptions will be as short as possible and will usually only be in the later hours of the evenings or overnight. We hope that you are able to access our site when you need to, but if you are unable to, please come back after the maintenance window and we should be back up and operational.

Our next planned maintenance will occur from Thursday, January 5th at 8pm (CST) until Friday, January 6th at 2am (CST). If any other maintenance periods are expected we will post it as soon as we are able to. Thank you again and thank you for visiting!

December 2011 Meeting

04 Sunday Dec 2011

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The next club meeting will be at Great Plains Nature Center on Deecember 16th at 7:30. This is our last meeting of the 2011 calendar year, and we are celebrating with our annual pot luck. As always, guests are always welcome, and we hope to see all out members there!

 

Welcome to our new home!

01 Thursday Dec 2011

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Thank you for taking the time to come to our site. We apologize for the disarray of the current site and hope that you come back soon to see what we have to offer. Our site is under development currently but is open. If you want to, feel free to poke around a bit; we apologize for all the dust everywhere but that should be cleared up soon after we offically open to the public!

Sincerely,
Kansas Astronomical Observers