Yes! Send us an email with the following info:
Where you would need us to travel to.
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…. Also, it will be much, much harder for us to accommodate a daytime event, since we all have day jobs.)
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 audience the group is (e.g. an elementary school class, a troop of Scouts, a home-school group).
How many kids and how many total people would be participating.
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.)
For your event, we can bring our telescopes and set them up. It would be great if you had a flat, open area that is relatively far away from lights. If you can turn off any nearby lights, even better. It doesn’t have to be perfectly dark (especially since general light pollution from Orlando is pretty terrible anyway), but some darkness really helps. We will have staff members with the telescopes to explain what they are pointed at. Over the course of the event we can also repoint the telescopes at different objects.