Saskatchewan Summer Star Party 2006

There are many walking paths throughout the park.

Loch Leven is a beautiful sight in the morning.

There are about 300 moose in CHIPP so the odds of seeing them during a walk through the forest are pretty good.

The Meadows Campground was critically dry this year.

Setting up telescopes early for some viewing.

The SSSP officially started on Thursday night with the Wienie roast.

After the wiener roast, there was a First Nations presentation about Astronomy in the amphitheatre.

Friday afternoon, the SCN crew did some interviews for a documentary they were putting together.

Richard Huziak is interviewed by the Leader Post for a Weekender news article.

Friday night were the informal presentations including a Teleconference call with Starfest.

On Saturday, Scott Young gave the Father Lucian Kemble Memorial Lecture.  His excellent presentation was entitled "Pluto vs. the Ice Dwarves".

For the SSSP's 10th anniversary, certificates were handed out to those people that have attended all 10 SSSP's.

On Saturday night, the park staff put on their play entitled "QT Comet" which is a play about the discovery of Comet Petriew .

SSSP Group Photo (large 1.3 MB).  There were 275 registrants this year making this the second largest SSSP to date.