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Storytime Sprouts: Outer Space Adventures
Nov 19, 2024 10:00AM—11:00AM
The Wilderness Center 9877 Alabama Ave SW Wilmot, OH 44689
RegisterVenture into outer space with stories and songs about the Moon and stars. We’ll go to the Planetarium and have our own adventure in space watching Cocomong: A Space Adventure. Cocomong dreams of space travel. And then Halley, a kid from Saturn's Moon Titan, makes a crash landing in Cocomong's house. Halley has the last…
View MorePlanetarium Show: Tonight’s Sky
Nov 16, 2024 11:00AM—12:00PM
Astronomy Education Building at TWC 9877 Alabama Ave SW Wilmot, OH 44689
RegisterFREE! 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.…
View MoreStorytime Sprouts: Outer Space Adventures
Nov 06, 2024 10:00AM—11:00AM
The Wilderness Center 9877 Alabama Ave SW Wilmot, OH 44689
RegisterVenture into outer space with stories and songs about the Moon and stars. We’ll go to the Planetarium and have our own adventure in space watching Cocomong: A Space Adventure. Cocomong dreams of space travel. And then Halley, a kid from Saturn's Moon Titan, makes a crash landing in Cocomong's house. Halley has the last…
View MorePlanetarium Show: Moons- Worlds of Mystery
Nov 02, 2024 11:00AM—12:00PM
Astronomy Education Building at TWC 9877 Alabama Ave SW Wilmot, OH 44689
RegisterJoin 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…
View MorePlanetarium Show: Moons- Worlds of Mystery
Nov 01, 2024 7:00PM—8:00PM
Astronomy Education Building at TWC 9877 Alabama Ave SW Wilmot, OH 44689
RegisterJoin 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…
View MorePlanetarium 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…
View MorePlanetarium 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…
View MorePlanetarium 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…
View MorePlanetarium 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…
View MorePlanetarium Shows: Larry Cat in Space
Aug 17, 2024 11:00AM—12:00PM
Astronomy Education Building at TWC 9877 Alabama Ave SW Wilmot, OH 44689
Take off on a lunar adventure with a curious stowaway cat! “Larry Cat in Space” is a playful, imaginative cartoon presentation about an inquisitive cat who takes a trip to the Moon. Through Larry’s eyes, we observe his human family, a group of enthusiastic sky-watchers. When his best friend Diana takes a job on the…
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