WAS in the News

CT LIVE!: Wandering Around Westport – The Westport Observatory

Taylor Kinzler from NBC CT and the CT Live team visited the Westport Observatory in February 2023. Taylor chatted and took a tour of the WAS campus with board member and former president Dan Wright.

Meteorite Collector Shares Celestial Fascination

Westport Journal story of Cal Powell returning to the Westport Observatory with friends from Yale’s Peabody Museum and the Astronomical Society of New Haven for an out-of-this-world meteorite collection show and tell on July 19, 2022

Observatory keeps track of earth-shaking events around the globe

Many Westporters might be surprised to learn the site of the Westport Observatory is not only an astronomical center but the epicenter for earthquake monitoring in this part of Connecticut. July 16, 2014

Maybe — a great comet

We have to be patient. Comet ISON has been traveling for a very long time, from very, very far away. Nov. 12, 2013