Observatory Open Nights
The Observatory is closed during the summer months and will reopen with Open Nights on Fridays in September. Email for additional information.
GROUPS
The Observatory welcomes pre-scheduled small groups to visit our facilities on public viewing nights. For safety reasons, we are unable to accommodate groups over 25 at any one time, but we are happy to split larger groups for multiple visits. We ask that all groups larger than 10 arrange their visits to the observatory so that we can manage the number of visitors to our program.
Please contact Tony Houser at houser_anthony@wheatoncollege.edu 508-286-3979.
UPCOMING VIEWING HIGHLIGHTS
November 20 - 6:30 PM. Viewing Highlights: Quarter Moon. Jupiter and Jupiter's moons.
November 27 - Closed. Thanksgiving
December 4 - 7:30 PM. Viewing Highlights: Full Moon. Jupiter and Jupiter's moons.
December 11 - 7:00 PM. Viewing Highlights: Jupiter and Jupiter's moons.
December 18 - January 22 - Closed for Holiday and Winter Break.
January 29 - Observatory reopens. 7:00 PM. Viewing Highlights: Full moon this evening. The planet Mars returns to the early evening sky.
February 5 - 7:00 PM. Viewing Highlights: Mars, The Great Nebula (M42) in Orion.
February 12 - 7:00 PM. Viewing Highlights: Mars, The Great Nebula (M42) in Orion.
February 19 - 7:00 PM. Viewing Highlights: Quarter Moon, Mars, The Great Nebula (M42) in Orion.
February 26 - 7:00 PM. Viewing Highlights: Full Moon, Mars, The Great Nebula (M42) in Orion.
OBSERVATORY WEATHER
Friday Observatory Open Nights
Tony Houser hosts Friday night sky viewings in the observatory free to students and the public
Wheaton's 12" telescope "down under"
Professor of Astronomy Tim Barkers' students peer at the Southern Skies