A Community – Centered Astronomy Research Program

Click here to learn more about DoubleSTARS You can now apply for the Boyce-Astro Spring 2026 DoubleSTARS™ seminar and research project. See the attached flyer for the details and application link. Join us to help you author your first scientific paper! Click...

Click here for the Spring 2026 Course Flyer Boyce-Astro is starting the year with three introductory courses on three tracks for 2026.Whether you’re a student or an avid amateur astronomer, there’s science here for you! Double Stars™(February Start, 8 Sessions)...

After a successful prototype last summer, our spectroscopy course is back—now enhanced with new tools and observational opportunities. We’ve added spectroscopy capabilities at the BARO Observatory, allowing participants to gather real spectra and analyze them as part...

The BEAR program integrates with the Binary Speckle course into a two-day, on-site experience at Mount Wilson Observatory. Students apply their remote training in this historic setting, working in real-time observation sessions of very close binaries. Daytime...

Our Binary Speckle Interferometry course begins May 28. It uses the BARO remote observatory and will meet weekly through the summer. Participants will observe binary stars to refine orbital ephemerides and possibly suggest new orbital models. These stars are too close...

Our annual class and seminar calendar is now available on the Boyce-Astro website. Courses span a wide range of topics in observational astronomy, including binary stars, photometry, and spectroscopy. Start dates are subject to change, so we recommend joining the Wait...

IntroSTARS™ continues to be the Boyce-Astro prerequisite course for all our seminars and classes. Hundreds of students have taken the self-paced introduction to some basic astrophysics. Students need to pass IntroSTARS™ Final Quiz before taking his or...

Do exoplanet observations and learn photometry! The Spring 2025 Exoplorer™ EW Seminar is announced and the waitlist is open for signup.  Click here to learn more