Your checklist for viewing the 2018 Perseid meteor shower
…your yard, you might invite the neighbors – and ask them to turn off their outside lights before they head over. 5) Gather your supplies. To view meteors, you don’t need (or…
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How to find Mars in the sky
…curious to see Mars in the night sky, this is what to look for: 1) Mars is currently very bright. Now (July 27, 2018) and for a number of weeks to come, Mars…
Never agree to marry the northern lights (and other life lessons from Valentine sky stories)
…10, 2018, 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2018, 7 p.m. AND 8:30 p.m. These shows are for adults only, please (older teens welcome). We recommend buying tickets online in advance. All…
Carolina Skies: Valentine’s edition 2018
…8:30 p.m. Saturday, February 10th, 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, February 14th, 7 p.m. Wednesday, February 14th, 8:30 p.m. Tickets are buy one get one free on Friday, February 9th for students…
The arrival of winter: Fly me to the Moon
December 20, 2017 By Michael G. Neece On the morning of December 21, 1968, three men who trained at Morehead Planetarium sat atop a Saturn V rocket, ready to become…
Morehead hosts star-studded Jupiter Ball
…Senior Director of Community Relations at Cary, NC-based analytics company SAS Institute Inc., for her continued support of STEM education. Goodnight serves on a number of boards committed to education,…
Can’t get eclipse glasses? You can still view the eclipse!
…consider these other methods, too. A number of people have marveled to us about their memories of partial solar eclipses from years past where they were walking under trees and…
10 things for North Carolinians to know about the eclipse
…safety page. An easy, cheap, and surprisingly satisfying method for viewing the Sun (whether it’s partially eclipsed or just another ordinary day) is eclipse glasses. But make sure you get…
Finding the winter hexagon (and maybe your birthday star)
…too far away. Its light takes about 800 years to reach us. So we see the star as it looked when the light left it eight hundred years ago, or…
An evening with Astronaut James Lovell, Apollo 13 commander
…April 6 7:30 p.m. at Memorial Hall Tickets go on sale Monday, March 6, 10 a.m. Between 1959 and 1975, Morehead was called to serve not only the people of…