Morehead Planetarium and Science Center

The Sun: Our Living Star
2024-04-21 13:30 - 14:30, 2024-04-28 13:30 - 14:30, 2024-05-05 13:30 - 14:30 (America/New_York)

Mars: The Ultimate Voyage
2024-04-21 15:00 - 16:00, 2024-04-28 15:00 - 16:00, 2024-05-05 15:00 - 16:00

One Sky, Many Eyes
2024-04-21 16:30 - 17:30, 2024-04-28 16:30 - 17:30, 2024-05-05 16:30 - 17:30

Forward! To the Moon
2024-04-26 15:00 - 16:00, 2024-05-03 15:00 - 16:00, 2024-05-10 15:00 - 16:00, 2024-05-17 15:00 - 16:00

Carolina Skies
2024-04-26 16:30 - 17:30, 2024-04-27 16:30 - 17:30, 2024-05-03 16:30 - 17:30, 2024-05-04 16:30 - 17:30, 2024-05-10 16:30 - 17:30, 2024-05-17 16:30 - 17:30

Apollo Remastered: A High Definition Presentation by Andy Saunders
2024-04-26 18:30 - 19:30 | Morehead Planetarium and Science Center, 250 E Franklin St, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 27516, United States
Join us for an unforgettable evening as imaging specialist Andy Saunders takes us on a journey through the Apollo missions using his meticulously remastered photographs. Andy also explains the cutting-edge techniques applied to scans of the original film to create the highest-quality Apollo photographs ever produced. Revealing details that have been lost for half a century, they offer astounding new insight and a mesmerizing retrospective of humankind’s greatest adventure.

There will be a book signing event for Saunders’ “Apollo Remastered” book from 5:00 to 6:00 p.m. This event is open to ticketholders, and copies of the book will also be available for purchase at the Cosmic Goods gift shop. The program will begin at 6:30 p.m.

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About the Author

Andy Saunders is a British author, science writer, and one of the world’s foremost experts of NASA digital restoration.

In 2023, he received the coveted Royal Photographic Society Award for Scientific Imaging, and his collaboration with Tom Hanks to showcase the images in “The Moonwalkers,” an immersive show in London, opened to wide critical acclaim.

His book, “Apollo Remastered,” released in September 2022, became an instant Sunday Times Bestseller in the UK and the biggest selling book on the Apollo program since records began. It was shortlisted by Barnes & Noble for Book Of The Year, 2022, and awarded Space Hipsters’ Book Of The Year in the same year.

Magic Tree House Space Mission
2024-04-27 10:30 - 11:30, 2024-05-04 10:30 - 11:30

Astronaut
2024-04-27 12:00 - 13:00

Earth, Moon and Sun
2024-04-27 13:30 - 14:30, 2024-05-04 13:30 - 14:30

Earthquakes, Volcanoes, and Tsunamis
2024-04-27 15:00 - 16:00, 2024-05-04 15:00 - 16:00

Cosmic Colors
2024-05-04 12:00 - 13:00

Carolina Science Cafe | Atmospheric Aerosols
2024-05-07 18:00 - 19:00 | Haw River Tap & Table, 300 E Main St C, Carrboro, NC, 27510, United States
Big Things Have Small Beginnings: How understanding atmospheric aerosols can save lives and help our climate

Join us for our next installment of the Carolina Science Cafe, Morehead Planetarium and Science Center’s free, current science awareness program. For the May cafe, we will welcome Dr. Will Vizuete from Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering (ESE) in the Gillings School of Global Public Health.

Designed for adults, this program explores science topics making national and international headlines and offers the chance to meet the experts behind the headlines. The Carolina Science Café is hosted at Haw River Tab & Table in Carrboro on Tuesday, May 7th, starting at 6:00 p.m. with light appetizers available for all attendees.

Exposure to atmospheric aerosols are believed to cause annually 8.3 million premature deaths worldwide. Atmospheric aerosols are also an important atmospheric radiative forcer and plays a critical role in our understanding of the impacts of climate change. Tackling problems of air pollution mortality and climate change are the global public health challenges that motivate this talk.

In this talk, find out about how his research is helping us understand how we form atmospheric aerosols, and its connection to human health and climate change. Learn how the latest computing science is being used to build computer simulations of the atmosphere to understand how these aerosols are formed, where they go, and how they impact humans and the planet.

Dr. Vizuete is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering (ESE) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC). The ESE Department resides within the Gillings School of Global Public Health and is primarily oriented toward graduate education. His department’s research scope spans water, air, and the sublayer environments and is focused on their interactions from an engineering and science perspective.

Within the department, Dr. Vizuete works within the two interdisciplinary programs of “Air Quality and Atmospheric Processes” and “Human Exposure and Health Effects.” his research is primarily conducted within interdisciplinary teams where this diversity of expertise, coupled with their engineering background, has allowed me to develop novel engineering solutions for public health problems. For fun, Dr. Vizuete is a WXYC DJ and plays bass in a traditional ska/reggae band The Unsustainables.

Carolina Science Cafe is produced by Morehead Planetarium and Science Center and sponsored by the UNC Chapter of Sigma Xi.

You do not need to register…just show up!

Skywatching: Views from The Durham
2024-05-13 20:30 - 22:30 | The Durham Hotel, 315 E. Chapel Hill St, Durham, North Carolina, 27701, United States
Join us on the roof of The Durham Hotel for a series of telescopic stargazing nights. Stop by for guided constellation tours and educational activities, all while enjoying music from DJ Mic Check. Music begins at 8:00 p.m. and stargazing begins at 8:30 p.m. This skywatching event is free and open to the public. All ages are welcome.
