Astro Day at the Morris Museum Set for 3/28

On Saturday, March 28, 2015, the Morris Museum and the Morris Museum Astronomical Society will host a fun-filled family event that is out of this world! Astronomy programs, children's activities, and interactive displays will be scheduled throughout the day from 11:00am to 4:00pm, with night sky observing of the moon, planets and other celestial objects (weather permitting) from 7:00 to 9:00pm. All Astro Day activities are FREE with Museum admission.

Experts from the Morris Museum Astronomical Society will be on hand to provide lectures, telescope training (bring your family's telescope), solar observation and night sky observing. Weather permitting; Astro Day visitors will be able to view the sun through special filters, revealing sunspots, flares and prominences.

Throughout the Museum's galleries, families can participate in a variety of fun-filled activities. Children will be able to construct UV bead key chains, design alien spacecrafts, and make postcards from outer space. In addition, families can take in a show in our portable planetarium ($1 for Members / $2 for Non-members.)

The day will also feature three lectures. At 12:30pm, John Scala, Planetarium Director of Lenape Valley Regional High School, will give a family friendly talk on the locations of the planets in the night sky in the different seasons. Lonny Buinis, an Instructional Designer at Raritan Valley Community College, will discuss new ideas for finding earthlike civilizations at 1:30pm. At 2:30pm, the Astronomical Society's own Ron Schmahl will speak about observing in the Florida Keys.