Imagine training to be an astronaut and traveling to Mars. This month's stories and activities about space will take you there. Reservations required one week in advance. May 19 Sky Meadows Park Activities begin at Dusk Join Sean O'Brien, staff astronomer of the Einstein Planetarium, and local amateur astronomers for public telescopic observing at Sky Meadows Park near Paris, Virginia. Gaze into a star-filled sky, away from city lights.
Activities begin at dusk.
The apparent motion of the Sun, Moon and the bright planets through our sky is confined to a band now marked by images from ancient imaginations - the twelve constellations of the Zodiac. Staff astronomer Sean O'Brien offers some clues as to how this system came to be. Public telescopic observing follows each Monthly Star Lecture, weather and time of sunset permitting.