Join Morehead educators for a tutorial of Stellarium, a free, open-source planetarium software that shows what you see when you look up into the sky. We'll be using this tool for Morehead At Home: Skywatching sessions every Tuesday and Thursday. This tutorial will demonstrate the basics and provide some tips for using the software. You Read more...
This Morehead At Home: Skywatching session will include a journey through the night time sky for Thursday, 4/16/20 including early evening constellations such as Orion (and all of his friends and enemies,) an absurdly bright planet (Venus) and a treat for you early birds: three more planets and the Moon in the pre-dawn sky. *Please Note: Read more...
Learn the skill of star hopping! Discover how to star hop with the Big Dipper and find your way to the North Star, to a lion in the sky, and to two of the brightest stars. We’ll also share a Southern Paiute story about a mountain sheep who climbed a really tall mountain and turned Read more...
How Dark is Your Sky? Leo Knows. More than 99% of us in the United States live under light-polluted skies. We’ll explore how our use of outdoor lighting affects what you can, and can’t, see in your nighttime sky, and we’ll take a look at the breathtaking sights a truly dark sky has to offer. Read more...
Take a trip of billions of miles with us! Today we’ll go on an imaginary vacation through the solar system, making stops at several planets. We’ll consider the sightseeing possibilities at each destination, as well as what you should pack for your trip. Along the way, you’ll learn how to identify planets in tonight’s sky. Read more...
“What’s Your Sign?” The Constellations of the Zodiac We’ll use planetarium software to identify constellations of the zodiac, learn why they’re associated with particular dates (but maybe not the dates you were expecting), and discover the scientific reason it’s worth learning to identify zodiac constellations—spoiler: it’s a way to find planets. Note: This is a Read more...
