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Public Viewing Night Observations: |
1st
Fridays & 3rd
Tuesdays of the month* |
Daylight Savings Time (DST) (March 9 to November 2) - 8:00 p.m. — Late |
*Our twice-a-month Public Viewing sessions are regularly scheduled on the 1st Friday and 3rd Tuesday of each month in place of our student's regular observations. HOWEVER, this schedule may get altered due to events that have a particularly special astronomical interest. Schedules that become altered due to either an event of astronomical interest or due to some other event (such as a University-wide football game) will be discussed about on the Front Page of the website and will be listed in our Events Calendar.
There is NO charge for these Public Viewing sessions. While anyone may attend these viewing sessions, students should not expect to receive credit for these sessions.
Please note that night sessions are conducted in our night mode
, which uses all red lights. We do this to avoid blue lights, which oversaturates our rod
sensing cells in our eyes, temporarily degrading our night
or scotopic
vision. Night vision is what people use to see the faint nebular fuzzies
up in the sky, and it takes about 40 minutes to build up to its full strength. As white light contains lots of blue in it, we need to avoid it as well. So as a curtesy to other visitors please turn off smart phones and PDAs for your own and other's sake. Use a nightmode to take photographs, or at least a red filter over your flash. Thank you.
