Colonizing the Moon: "A First Step to Mars" and Stargazing Program with The Northwoods Explorers

Join The Northwoods Explorers for an evening of stargazing and learning more about our upcoming missions to build a lunar habitat, Bob Krueger will provide a talk on the difficulties to build a station on the moon and prepare for mars exploration. After the talk with good weather will observe a few objects with quality telescopes and image-stabilized binoculars to view Saturn, the Ring Nebula in Lyra (M57), the great globular cluster in Hercules (M13) the Andromeda Galaxy (M31), and Jupiter around 9 PM. Learn about constellations, the Milky Way, and our amazing Universe.  In the event of poor viewing and weather, the backup date for this program is Saturday, November 2.  Program will start in the Forest Room in the Discovery Hall and the Discovery Center before we head outside and look at the stars.

White light flashlights are NOT allowed.  Please use red lights or cover your white light with many layers of red cellophane or a thick red balloon.  A white light shined into dark-adapted eyes is painful and may ruin a person's view for up to 20 minutes and they may miss something important!

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Program held on Friday, November 1, 6:30 - 9:00 pm. Preregistration requireed by 11/1/24.  In the event of poor viewing and weather, the backup date for this program is Saturday, November 2.  Non-members $5 - Members Free

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