We invite you to visit the Earl L. Wonnacott Observatory this fall and look through our telescope. We will be pointing our telescope at various objects of interest: the moon, planets, stars, nebula, and galaxies, depending on the date and sky conditions.

We will once again schedule viewings every two weeks this semester, anticipating that at least half of the events will be cancelled by cloudy weather. We’re going to try a mix of Thursdays and Saturdays.

In the event of cloudy weather, this post will be updated to indicate if a viewing is cancelled.

The dates and times that we’ve scheduled are below. Note that the event times shift earlier as the dates get closer to the winter solstice (and that the times jump much earlier in November after Daylight Saving Time ends).

• Saturday, September 28, 8:00-10:00PM – attended by 94 people!
• Thursday, October 10, 8:00-10:00PM – cancelled due to staff work-load
• Saturday, October 26, 7:30-9:30PM – cancelled due to cloudy weather
• Thursday, November 7, 7:30-9:30PM – cancelled due to cloudy weather
• Saturday, November 23, 6:30-8:30PM – cancelled due to cloudy weather
• Thursday, December 5, 6:00-8:00PM – cancelled due to cloudy weather
• Saturday, December 21, 6:00-8:00PM – cancelled due to winter storm

If you’re coming to our event, meet us in room 417 of Memorial Hall. We’ll have some astronomy activities and information for a variety of ages that you can peruse while you wait for your turn to go up to the observatory.

Accessibility: You can take an elevator up to room 417, but it is necessary to climb stairs up one floor to the roof and into the observatory to reach the telescope.