Spring 2018
Spring 2018 Observatory Event Schedule
1/15 11 pm. Come to see the Great Orion Nebula. Stars are being born in this massive hydrogen gas cloud. It is the brightest nebula in the sky.
2/19 10:00 pm. Come see the Crab Nebula. It is a supernova remnant in the constellation of Taurus and was recorded by Chinese astronomers as early as 1054.
3/22 10:30 pm – Messier 3 was discovered by Charles Messier in 1764, and resolved into stars by William Herschel around 1784. It has since become one of the best-studied globular clusters.
4/9 9 pm. Messier 37 and/or 35, M37 is the brightest, and richest of the three Messier open clusters in Auriga, and M35 consists of hundreds of stars, of which 120 are all brighter than magnitude 13.
4/23 9:30 pm. Come see pock marked surface of our single satellite, Moon. The shadows round the crater’s rims and stretching across the bleak and forlorn landscape is truly a sight to behold.
5/9 11 pm. Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System. It is a giant planet with a mass one-thousandth that of the Sun, but 2.5 times that of all the other planets in the Solar System combined.
