July 25-26: Our Home Galaxy The Milky Way If you want to know what the Milky Way looks like close up, look
around. We live in a great spinning, slightly warped, disk of stars, 100,000 light years across. Telescopic highlights on
this moonless dark sky weekend include: The Great Hercules Globular Cluster, The Ring Nebula, The Veil Nebula (the
remnants of an exploding star) and M8 (a stellar nursery in which new stars are being born). 8:45 PM
On clear Friday and Saturday nights, from March through November, we do guided stargazing programs starting a half-hour after sunset. These involve a laser-guided tour of the constellations and features of the sky. We will show you the constellations and other features of the sky. Due to the popularity and nature of our telescope viewing programs, which put hundreds of people a night in close proximity to our volunteers, please be considerate of our volunteers and others by not crowding.
