The monthly public viewing at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Student Observatory will be from 9 to 11 p.m. June 26.
Children are welcome.
At sunset the telescope will be trained on the thin crescent moon in the west. After it gets dark, the featured object of the evening will be the Great Globular Cluster in Hercules, also known as M 13. From inside the dark telescope dome many hundreds of faint stars will be visible tightly clustered together. Gaskell said smaller telescopes are also usually set up outside the dome for viewing other objects. The Student Observatory is on top of the Stadium Parking Garage west of Memorial Stadium.