Enjoy a free public stargazing event at the Montgomery Hill Observatory from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m.. View the skies with our two observatories and several telescopes set out for the public. Kids learn how to use telescopes and identify objects in the sky!
Make sure to not miss a future star gazing event with our Astronomy Department by joining the meetup group.
Celebrate September Under the Moon and Stars with music with M.C. McTate Stroman II & Company(Health & Wellness Services) and Mike Masuda (Astronomy & Physics); music starts goes from 7:45 p.m. to 9:45 p.m.
Questions? Email Rick Francisco at ricardo.fransico@evc.edu.
About the Viewing:
View the skies with our two observatories and several telescopes set out for the public. Kids learn how to use telescopes and identify objects in the sky!
Brocchi's cluster also known as the Coathanger cluster - Cr 399, this asterism is made of 10 stars that look like an upside-down
coathanger, which is located in the constellation Vulpecula. The Double star cluster in Perseus (NGC 869 & 844) is visible to the
naked eye but will look like a field of diamonds in the night sky in a telescope. Both clusters are 7500 light years away from Earth,
they are also very young at 12.8 million years old.
NGC 457 the Dragonfly cluster is in the constellation Cassiopeia, it was discovered by William Herschel in 1787. It is 7900 light
years away and is 21 million years old, it is also known as the E.T. cluster.
In the constellation Hercules, M13, the Great Cluster in Hercules is considered one of the finest globular clusters. Globular clusters
are densely packed collections of ancient stars. Roughly spherical in shape, they contain hundreds of thousands, sometimes millions, of stars.
Look for the Constellation Lyra where you can find the Ring Nebula (M 57) a planetary nebula that looks like a ring of smoke. The original star that created the Ring Nebula is thought to have been several times more massive than our sun but not large enough to explode as a supernova. This will happen to our star the Sun in 5 billion years, so we have plenty of time to find a new home.