Yes! Send us an email with the following info:
Whether you are interested in a daytime or a nighttime event. (Note that a daytime event will have WAY fewer things to see in the sky, because it’s, you know, daytime….)
What dates and/or days of the week you are interested in. (Try to be flexible with this, since we use a lot of volunteer student labor, and we can’t always expect that they will be available.)
What kind of group you’re bringing (e.g. an elementary school class, a troop of Scouts, a home-school group).
How many kids and how many total people would be coming.
Who the contact person in your group would be, and their phone number. (We need this to coordinate last-minute go/no-go decisions in case of bad weather.)
Whether you can make a donation to the observatory. (Our budget is almost entirely reliant on donations, since we get basically zero operating budget from UCF, so for us to do private events above-and-beyond are public outreach load, it really helps to receive a donation. We can give you a suggestion for this, if that helps.)
At the event, we will have telescopes set up on the lawn and knowledgeable staff members there to explain what they are pointed at. Over the course of the event we can also give you a tour of the 20-inch telescope that’s upstairs in our observatory building. We also have meteorites — actual rocks from space! — that we can show.