Take a picture like this at Sequoia and Kings Canyon's Dark Sky Festival

SEQUOIA NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – The 11th yearly Dark Sky festival "under the stunning nighttime skies of Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks" is getting acceptable to dazzle visitors this weekend.

According to the Sequoia Parks Conservancy, the escaped three-day lawsuit volition diagnostic dozens of star-themed activities crossed the 2 parks. The conservancy says 1 of the highlights of the festival is the prima parties wherever section astronomers and parkland unit volition stock their cognition of the cosmos.

"Under the stunning nighttime skies of Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, festival-goers tin regard done telescopes astatine distant galaxies, sparkling prima clusters, and adjacent planets similar Jupiter and Saturn," an online station by the conservancy reads.

Two two-hour prima parties volition beryllium hosted connected Saturday night:

• The Wuksachi Star Party successful Sequoia National Park volition beryllium hosted by the Kern Astronomical Society astatine Wuksachi Lodge from 9 p.m. to 11 p.m.
• The Big Stump Star Party successful Kings County National Park volition beryllium hosted by the Central Valley Astronomers astatine Big Stump Picnic Area from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m.

In summation to Saturday's prima parties, immoderate notable events the play volition diagnostic include:

• Amateur astronomy and astrophotography astatine Sequoia's Lodgepole Amphitheater connected Friday from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m.
• Night hike done the elephantine sequoias of Grant Grove connected Friday from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m.
• Paint a Galaxy astatine Sequoia's Beetle Rock Center connected Sunday from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m.

Some of the events necessitate reservations. Those funny successful attending tin visit the Sequoia Parks Conservancy online for registration details and a afloat database of events.