

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Dark Sky Week Star Party at Crane Beach
- **Event Start and End Date**: Tue, 14 Apr, 2026 at 07:30 pm – Tue, 14 Apr, 2026 at 09:30 pm (-04:00)
- **Event Description**: Celebrate International Dark Sky Week, April 13-20, and join us for a star party with the North Shore Astronomy Club on Tuesday, April 14 (back-up weather date, April 16). Club members will bring telescopes and their expertise to help us explore and view the dark sky from the Crane Beach parking lot. Bring your binoculars, scopes, starfinding apps, and curiosity.

Here are some of the exciting things we may be able to see through the telescopes:

-Double star systems
-Quadruple and larger star systems
-Open clusters (collections of 100 to 1000 stars in our galaxy)
-Globular clusters (collections of 100’s of thousands of stars that orbit our galaxy)
-Nebula (exploded stars as well as star forming regions)

Learn more about our co-hosts, the North Shore Astronomy Club, here: https://nsaac.org/

Continue the dark sky week fun: Join The Trustees, Greenbelt &amp; The North Shore Astronomy Club for a lecture at the Hamilton-Wenham Library on Wednesday, April 15th, 6-7:30pm with J. Kelly Beatty, an award winning science journalist and astronomer as well as a former editor of Sky and Telescope magazine. Learn more here: Library Calendar – Hamilton-Wenham Public Library
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/ipswich/dark-sky-week-star-party-at-crane-beach/200029806284606
- **Interested Audience**: 
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## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: https://thetrustees.org/event/444021/?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=ipswich-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: Ipswich
- **state**: MA
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 290 Argilla Road, Ipswich, MA, United States, Massachusetts 01938
- **lat**: 42.68538
- **long**: -70.7791
- **full address**: 290 Argilla Road, Ipswich, MA, United States, Massachusetts 01938

## Event Organizer details

- **affiliate_id**: 2
- **organizer**: The Trustees - Crane Estate (https://allevents.in/org/the-trustees-crane-estate/7129034)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Tue, 14 Apr, 2026 at 07:30 pm (-04:00)
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** 290 Argilla Road, Ipswich, MA, United States, Massachusetts 01938
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** The Trustees - Crane Estate
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Dark Sky Week Star Party at Crane Beach ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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