skywatching | Morehead Planetarium & Science Center

This Morehead At Home: Skywatching session will include a journey through the night time sky for Thursday, 4/16/20 including early...

Learn the skill of star hopping! Discover how to star hop with the Big Dipper and find your way to...

How Dark is Your Sky? Leo Knows. More than 99% of us in the United States live under light-polluted skies....

Take a trip of billions of miles with us! Today we’ll go on an imaginary vacation through the solar system,...

“What’s Your Sign?” The Constellations of the Zodiac We’ll use planetarium software to identify constellations of the zodiac, learn why...

When can you see the Moon in the sky? What does it look like close up? How does its appearance...

Have you ever wondered if there is life anywhere besides Earth? We want to explore this question with you during...

We’ll tour the May sky as it appears from North Carolina and show you how to identify planets and stars...

Find out what the International Space Station is, who’s currently living on it, and how YOU can see the space...

We’ll tour the June sky as it appears from North Carolina and show you how to identify planets and stars...