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Alfred S. Thompson Wednesday 7:30 p.m. Top Floor, * * * * * |
Beloit College welcomes the community to view stars at the Alfred S. Thompson Observatory, weather permitting, on Wednesday, April 2, at 7:30 p.m., on the top floor of Chamberlin Hall, on the Beloit College campus. This open house is the last chance guests will have to access the observatory in its present location before it is relocated to a new site. (The observatory will be moved when Chamberlin Hall is dismantled after the College’s new Center for the Sciences is completed.) Like most events on campus, the open house is free and open to the public.
Celestial bodies that should be visible on April 2 include Mars (the red planet), Saturn (the ringed planet) and Pleiades (a star cluster). Open house participants will be able to view the skies through nine small, portable telescopes. Tours of the observatory dome will also be conducted.
For details about the Thompson Observatory open house, contact Britt Scharringhausen, assistant professor in the departments of physics and astronomy, at 608-363-2648, or scharr@beloit.edu. For information about events on the Beloit College campus, go online to www.beloit.edu .