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Directions to the planetarium.
Astronomy is the oldest science
and
one of the few sciences that welcomes amateurs. Everyone who looks
up at the stars with wonder is an astronomer. The
planetarium is
open from Thursday, August 24, 2009, until Friday, May 14, 2010.
There are exceptions though like Summer
Planetarium
Programs. This
is an academic institution so there are a few holidays like
Thanksgiving and
around Christmas and new year's day when the entire institution is
closed. All evening planetarium programs include a star
party after the show, if it is clear. Star party means we look at
the sky with
telescopes. We have a 10 inch (2540mm)
Meade
LX200-GPS-SMT, a 3
1/2
inch (88.9mm) Questar, and a 4 1/8 inch (105mm) Edmund Astroscan
telescopes
that we bring outside the planetarium when clear. Bring your
telescope to the star party, and we can have even more fun sharing, the
more the merrier.
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| WHEN | Free Public Planetarium SHOWS and Occasional Celestial Spectacle | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Saturday, 20 March 2010 at 7P.M. | How Seeing the Stars Will Save You Money and Possibly Save Your Life (and help slow the planet earth's climate change) and Prevent Breast Cancer In the Planetarium. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Saturday, 17 April 2010 at 7P.M. | Space-time Invariance and Quantum Gravity: or how c, G, and h create the fabric of time-space (reality)! discover the smallest distances and times measurable and how the universe is pixelated. In the Planetarium. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Saturday, 1 May 2010 at 7P.M. | Star Stories, some ancient, some old, and some new constellation star stories, good for kids of all ages. In the Planetarium. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Saturday, 18 September 2010 at 7P.M. | 12
Bak'tun 19 K'atun 17 Tun 12 Winal 13 K'in, 9 Ben 6 Ch'en, and G1 with
correlation
constant
584285
13 Bak'tun 0 K'atun 0 Tun 0 Winal 0 K'in, 4 'Ahaw 3 K'ank'in, and G9 a long count calender roll over date.
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| Saturday, 23 October 2010 at
7P.M. |
Estimate of the Age of the
Universe Through Time, a new program Mark
Whittle: Big Bang Acoustics |
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| Saturday, 20 November 2010 at 7P.M. | Black Bubbles (Holes), Gravity to the Max: or how c, G, and M make a bubble in the fabric of time-space (reality)! In the Planetarium. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tuesday, 21 December 2010 at
2:32A.M. |
A total Lunar Eclipse for
Luna-tics starts at 2:32A.M. |
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| Tuesday, 21 December 2010 at 5P.M. | The Day of the Sun's Return, the Winter Solstice (time of Solstice 5:38PM Eastern Standard time) In the Planetarium. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Saturday, 29 January 2011 at 7P.M | How are Stars Born? not the celebrities, but the gravitational controlled thermonuclear fusion reactors that are real stars. In the Planetarium. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Saturday, 19 February 2011 at 7P.M. | African Skies hear creation myths and how at least 40,000 people got their freedom using the Drinking Gourd, the Big Dipper. In the Planetarium. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wednesday, 6 June 2012
at 5P.M. |
Transit
of
Venus
across
the
disk
of
the
sun from the roof
of the King
Street Parking Garage. 12 Bak’tun 19 K’atun 19 Tun 8 Winal 0 K’in, 12 ’Ahaw 3 Sots and G7              with
correlation constant 584285
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| Friday, Saturday, & Sunday,
21, 22, & 23 December 2012 at 3P.M. |
Mayan
Calendars In the Planetarium. The New AGE? 13 Bak'tun 0 K'atun 0 Tun 0 Winal 0 K'in, 4 'Ahaw 3 K'ank'in, and G9 a long count calender roll over date.     with correlation constant 584283 for December 21, 584284 for December 22, and 584285 for December 23 in 2012, but Sunday March 21, 2438 using the correlation constant 739601. |
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| Friday, 13 April 2029 at
8:30P.M. |
View
2004MN4, now 99942 Apophis if
it
is
clear
from
the
roof of the
King Street Parking Garage or some
other high flat place in what ever down town Silver Spring has become
that Montgomery College at Takoma Park/Silver Spring controls; or I can
get the use
of; if I am still alive and employed at the college at age 78, and
there is a good chance that I will be! B612Foundation.
Search on the Planetary
Society with the word Apophis! |
| Planetarium shows for College Classes: AS, BI, CH, EL, EN, HS, GL, MA, PH, PL, and others in the Planetarium. |
School
Teachers
and
youth
group
leaders, Grade Specific Field Trips for Classes in the Planetarium. |
| Music/LASER
Light
Shows, public planetarium programs not strictly astronomical in the Planetarium. |
Traveling
Talks and Navigation
before
1492. for groups that can not come to the planetarium. |
Summer Planetarium Programs, Special summer workshop, when the planetarium is closed to the public: like teacher workshops, courses for grade school students, and occasional special programs when something very unusual happens in the sky like the transit of Venus in the summer of 2004 and 2012 (and who knows when the next bright comet may appear). |
Astronomy
Courses Offered in the planetarium,
The
only
place
in
the
Washington
Metro
area
to
take a college astronomy
course
in a planetarium.
Leaning communities of Linked courses like Astrophilosophy, "Does the
Universe have a philosophy?" or Astrobiology, "You are made of the Dust
of Exploded Stars!"
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| Engineering
&
Science
Adventure Club
at
Montgomery College
meets in the Planetarium on Friday
afternoons at 3PM. |
"Saturday Discovery" Planetarium Programs. Youth programs at the College through WD&CE. |
| Geometric Algebra, Clifford Algebra, The Cliffhangers, special meetings for people who are mathematically minded. | Spingarn
High
School District of
Columbia Public School, John Buchanan's physics class
presentations |
| Distributed Computing for High Performance Computing at Montgomery College a vision. | Parkland Middle Aerospace Magnet Montgomery County Public School presentations |
| Astronomy,
Geology,
and
Physics
Education
sites here and
elsewhere. |
Takoma Park Middle Montgomery County Public School presentations. |
