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Planetarium Show: Tonight’s Sky

Nov 16, 2024 11:00AM—12:00PM

Astronomy Education Building at TWC 9877 Alabama Ave SW Wilmot, OH 44689

FREE! Take a tour of the fall night sky with Robin, our Astronomy Education Specialist. Learn what constellations and bright stars are in the night sky this time of year and what planets we can see. Experience some of the incredible deep sky objects this sky has to offer including galaxies, star clusters, and more.…

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Planetarium Show: Moons- Worlds of Mystery

Nov 02, 2024 11:00AM—12:00PM

Astronomy Education Building at TWC 9877 Alabama Ave SW Wilmot, OH 44689

Join us as we explore the little worlds of our solar system.  Learn how our own Moon was born and the role it has played in making Earth a planet habitable for life.  Explore the diversity of Jupiter’s four Galilean moons, Saturn’s moon Titan and moons orbiting asteroids and Kuiper Belt objects like Pluto.  Speculate…

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Star Watch with TWC Astronomy Club

Nov 01, 2024 8:00PM—9:30PM

Astronomy Education Building at TWC 9877 Alabama Ave SW Wilmot, OH 44689

The night sky is a place of wonders! Be inspired by constellations, craters on the Moon, the rings of Saturn, stellar nurseries, galaxies filled with stars, and more! Come to our monthly, first Friday Star Watch hosted by the Wilderness Center’s Astronomy Club. Star Watch is free and fun for the whole family.  Explore our…

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Planetarium Show: Moons- Worlds of Mystery

Nov 01, 2024 7:00PM—8:00PM

Astronomy Education Building at TWC 9877 Alabama Ave SW Wilmot, OH 44689

Join us as we explore the little worlds of our solar system.  Learn how our own Moon was born and the role it has played in making Earth a planet habitable for life.  Explore the diversity of Jupiter’s four Galilean moons, Saturn’s moon Titan and moons orbiting asteroids and Kuiper Belt objects like Pluto.  Speculate…

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Planetarium Show: Death of the Dinosaurs

Oct 19, 2024 11:00AM—12:00PM

Astronomy Education Building at TWC 9877 Alabama Ave SW Wilmot, OH 44689

Dinosaurs come to life! Discover the lives of multiple species of dinosaurs, from the Coelophysis of 205 million years ago to the Allosaurus and Diplodocus of the mid Jurassic period. We'll see the feathered Sinornithosaurus of China and the T. rex and Triceratops. Visit on-site locations of dinosaur graveyards, study their bones, and reconstruct how…

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Planetarium Show: Starlight

Oct 05, 2024 11:00AM—12:00PM

Astronomy Education Building at TWC 9877 Alabama Ave SW Wilmot, OH 44689

Have you ever been afraid of the dark?  As a little girl Margaret was afraid of the dark until she discovered the stars.  Margaret takes us on a journey to discover constellations and ancient cultures, the births and deaths of stars and the innermost workings of our Sun.  We’ll drift through a stellar nursery; we’ll…

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Star Watch with TWC Astronomy Club

Oct 04, 2024 8:30PM—10:00PM

Astronomy Education Building at TWC 9877 Alabama Ave SW Wilmot, OH 44689

The night sky is a place of wonders! Be inspired by constellations, craters on the Moon, the rings of Saturn, stellar nurseries, galaxies filled with stars, and more! Come to our monthly, first Friday Star Watch hosted by the Wilderness Center’s Astronomy Club. Star Watch is free and fun for the whole family.  Explore our…

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Planetarium Show: Starlight

Oct 04, 2024 7:30PM—8:30PM

Astronomy Education Building at TWC 9877 Alabama Ave SW Wilmot, OH 44689

Have you ever been afraid of the dark?  As a little girl Margaret was afraid of the dark until she discovered the stars.  Margaret takes us on a journey to discover constellations and ancient cultures, the births and deaths of stars and the innermost workings of our Sun.  We’ll drift through a stellar nursery; we’ll…

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Planetarium Show: Explore

Sep 07, 2024 11:00AM—12:00PM

Astronomy Education Building at TWC 9877 Alabama Ave SW Wilmot, OH 44689

Join us as we explore how scholars and scientists throughout the ages used the sky as a calendar and clock to measure the passage of time and how their charts and star catalogs were the beginnings of the modern science of astronomy.  Be inspired by astronomer Johannes Kepler’s story – how his theories about planetary…

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Planetarium Show: Explore

Sep 06, 2024 8:00PM—9:00PM

Astronomy Education Building at TWC 9877 Alabama Ave SW Wilmot, OH 44689

Join us as we explore how scholars and scientists throughout the ages used the sky as a calendar and clock to measure the passage of time and how their charts and star catalogs were the beginnings of the modern science of astronomy.  Be inspired by astronomer Johannes Kepler’s story – how his theories about planetary…

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