Skywatching FAQs
…events are offered at a variety of sites throughout the Triangle region. Currently, our main sites are: Little River Regional Park, off of Guess Road at the Durham/Orange county border…
…events are offered at a variety of sites throughout the Triangle region. Currently, our main sites are: Little River Regional Park, off of Guess Road at the Durham/Orange county border…
…solar system aligning: Sun, Earth, Moon…and you. You can learn more about eclipses – including the spectacular solar eclipses coming up in 2023 and 2024 – on NASA’s eclipse site….
…a dark site with an open view of the sky. 3. Choose a date and time. If you’re determined to see the most meteors, plan to go out sometime in…
…parking lot and drop off guests, but they must park off-site. UNC-Chapel Hill has designated limited space on the South Campus for bus parking on weekdays in the morning and…
…like in the past. Mars’ Jezero Crater imaged from ESA Mars Express Orbiter Credit: ESA/DLR/FU-Berlin The intended landing site for Perseverance, Jezero Crater, is where Perseverance will explore the inner…
…asking your neighbors to turn off their outside lights. From a reasonably dark site on the peak night, you may see an average of a meteor every minute or so…
…own. Ideally, choose a dark site with an open view of the sky. 3. Choose a time. Usually, we advise those wanting to see the most meteors to pick the…
…site that he and a fellow student made was published in the American Journal of Archaeology in 1891. Bettye Washington Greene, Industrial Research Chemist When Greene joined Dow Chemical Company…
…ensure your group is lined up in time to be seated for your program. We are running late. What should we do? If you are running late, please contact the…
…intervening nine years, astronauts have made trips to the ISS from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, managed by Russia’s space program: Roscosmos. Demo-2 will serve as the final flight test before NASA certifies the SpaceX Crew Dragon Capsule for future missions with longer…