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The permit issued by the US Forest Service gives TMSPA official use of the site beginning on Wednesday, August 11th.

If you are on-site prior to August 11th, you will need to follow US Forest Service regulations for the use of wilderness areas. Please check the US Forest Service website for more information regarding use of [...]

A preliminary schedule of events for TMSP 2010 has been posted on the General Information page of the TMSPA website. All times and dates are approximate and subject to change. The final events schedule will be posted and included in your newsletter that comes with the registration packet you receive when you check in at [...]

TMSPA would like to wish all of you a Happy and Prosperous New Year!

We would also like to remind you that the dates for the 2010 Table Mountain Star Party will be August 12th through August 14th. Please mark your calendars for those dates if you are planning on joining us on the mountain this [...]

As we celebrate to the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing, some of you who were around then might remember that phrase being transmitted from the Apollo spacecraft as they transited the far side of the Moon and lost radio communication. “LOS” was one of the plethora of acronyms used, and meant “Loss of [...]

“Seattle weathermen are half-right, 20% of the time.”

So goes the joke anyway.

Putting that skepticism aside, the current long-range weather forecasts for the week of Table Mountain Star Party look very promising, with a forecast of sunny and warm days and relatively mild nights. Ellensburg is forecast to have temperatures in the upper 80’s to low/mid [...]

UPDATE – 7/15/09, 11:30PM PST

Our testing shows that the TMSPA email servers are back up and functioning normally. Our hosting provider is in the process of upgrading our email system which apparently caused the earlier problems. If you encounter an issue with sending emails to the tmspa.com domain, please be patient and try sending again.

-The [...]

7/15/09, 1:30PM PST

TMSPA is currently experiencing difficulties with our email servers. If you have sent an email to someone in the tmspa.com domain and received delivery error messages, please try re-sending your message to our Information account.

We will post an update here when the mail server issues are resolved, and we apologize for any inconvenience [...]

As a general safety precaution, TMSPA Policy prohibits fires or the use of any cooking source that creates hot coals or ashes such as barbecues with charcoal briquettes due the danger of a fire on the site.

That policy is now backed up with the following announcement from the US Forest Service:

Due to high temperatures and [...]