It's Galaxy Time!
Stargazing activity is weather-dependent. Please dress for a chilly or cool evening.
Enjoy a free public stargazing event at the Montgomery Hill Observatory from 8:30 pm - 10:45 pm. View the skies with our two observatories and several telescopes set out for the public. Kids learn how to use telescopes and identify objects in the sky!
For this evening, the mighty Hercules will rise in the eastern night sky; see if you see the keystone stars of this constellation. One of the observatory telescopes will focus on M13, “The Great Cluster in Hercules,” one of the finest spring night globular clusters. Globular clusters are densely packed collections of ancient stars. Roughly spherical in shape, they contain hundreds of thousands, and sometimes millions, of stars. The waxing crescent Moon will be in the constellation Gemini, you can view many of the details of the craters along the terminator and see some of the Mares.
We can view many galaxies tonight with our new Unistellar eVscope, M 66 Leo Triplet Galaxy group, M64 the Black Eye Galaxy, NGC 4631 the Whale Galaxy, M 87 Virgo Galaxy, NGC 4651 the Umbrella Galaxy, and many more.
Keep looking up; you’re bound to find something new!
Rick
Stargazing activity is weather-dependent. Please dress for a chilly or cool evening.
Parking: Free Parking after 6:00 PM in the parking lot #9A for this event.
EVC map:https://www.evc.edu/sites/default/files/2022-03/evc_campus_map.pdf
For questions, contact Rick Francisco at ricardo.francisco@evc.edu
