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Summer Milky Way over South Dome with Double Cluster and Andromeda Galaxy 
July 2013 

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The Triangulum Galaxy can also be seen as a tiny smudge on the right of the image.
Friends of Goldendale Observatory Milky Way
Image property of Washington State Parks

Observatory West View

Saturn, Moon, and Venus
setting over Mt Hood


September 8, 2013
Friends of Goldendale Observatory West View Night Sky
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Epic Sunsets

Sunset and waxing crescent Moon above
​Mt Hood and the South Dome


​September 29, 2014
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Polaris and Ursa Major

​Wheeling behind South Dome

December 14, 2014
Friends of Goldendale Observatory Polaris
Image property of Washington State Parks

The Blue Moon


​Seen from the Observatory rising in the East over distant wind turbines ​
Friends of Goldendale Observatory Blue Moon
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Mt. Hood and Newtonian Sculpture

Friends of Goldendale Observatory Newtonian Sculpture
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Northern stars and a meteor over the South Dome being illuminated by Moonlight 

Summer 2014
Friends of Goldendale Observatory Northern Stars
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