{"id":1538,"date":"2025-12-20T21:31:38","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T00:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/astronomy\/?p=1538"},"modified":"2026-03-20T15:13:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T18:13:06","slug":"winter-2026-viewing-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/astronomy\/2025\/12\/20\/winter-2026-viewing-schedule\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter 2026 Viewing Schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We invite you to visit the Earl L. Wonnacott Observatory this winter to 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We will once again schedule viewings roughly every two weeks this semester, anticipating that at least half of the events will be cancelled by cloudy weather. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>In the event of cloudy weather, this post will be updated to indicate if a viewing is cancelled.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The dates and times that we\u2019ve scheduled are below. Note that the event times shift later as the dates get closer to the spring equinox.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li><s>Saturday, January 10, 6:00-8:00 PM<\/s> &#8211; CANCELLED DUE TO CLOUDY WEATHER<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><s>Saturday, January 24, 6:30-8:30 PM<\/s> &#8211; CANCELLED DUE TO CLOUDY WEATHER<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><s>Saturday, February 7, 7:00-9:00 PM<\/s> &#8211; CANCELLED DUE TO CLOUDY WEATHER<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><s>Saturday, February 21, 7:00-9:00 PM<\/s> &#8211; CANCELLED DUE TO CLOUDY WEATHER<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><s>Saturday, March 7, 7:30-9:30 PM<\/s> &#8211; CANCELLED DUE TO CLOUDY WEATHER<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><s>Saturday, March 21, 8:30-10:30 PM<\/s><\/strong> &#8211; <strong>CANCELLED DUE TO CLOUDY WEATHER<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em><strong>Our summer solar viewing schedule will be posted in May.<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>If you\u2019re coming to our event, meet us in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/astronomy\/wheres-the-telescope\/\">room 417 of Memorial Hall<\/a>. We\u2019ll 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Accessibility:<\/em>&nbsp;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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We invite you to visit the Earl L. Wonnacott Observatory this winter to 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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/astronomy\/2025\/12\/20\/winter-2026-viewing-schedule\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[12],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1538"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1560,"href":"https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538\/revisions\/1560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}