What do you associate with Halloween – Trick-or-Treating, Jack-o-Lanterns, costumes, candy corn and … astronomy?  After all, Halloween is an astronomical holiday!  Join us as we learn how Halloween fits into the fall season as a cross-quarter day and how the beliefs and celebrations surrounding this day became the origins of our most cherished Halloween…

The night sky is a place of wonders! Be inspired by constellations, craters on the Moon, stellar nurseries, and more. Our monthly Star Watch, hosted by the Wilderness Center’s Astronomy Club every first Friday, is free and fun for the whole family! Explore our dark skies through our telescopes or bring your own. Knowledgeable club…

Take a tour of the summer 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. And…

Learn about the night sky from the unique perspective of a Cowboy Astronomer.  Our cowboy will tell us about stars, their properties, their motion, and seasonal changes in the sky.  You’ll learn about constellations and some of the other objects in the night sky like the Pleiades star cluster, the Andromeda Galaxy, nebulae, and supernovas…

Take a tour of the spring 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. And…

Take a tour of the spring 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. And…

Join us as we learn about our first and oldest science – Astronomy! From our earliest ancestors and throughout time, humans have been fascinated by the sky, and it has inspired wonder and curiosity. Be amazed by what the earliest astronomers learned about the Sun, Moon, planets, and the motion of the stars using only…

Join us as we learn about our first and oldest science – Astronomy! From our earliest ancestors and throughout time, humans have been fascinated by the sky, and it has inspired wonder and curiosity. Be amazed by what the earliest astronomers learned about the Sun, Moon, planets, and the motion of the stars using only…

Take a tour of the winter 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. And…

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…