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Canceled - Comet Lovejoy and Planets

Image of Comet Lovejoy.
January 23, 2015
6:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Smith Lab Roof via the OSU Planetarium (Smith 5033)

 

This event is canceled due to bad weather. We will try for more short-notice roof nights in the coming months as the weather gets warmer.

 

Therefore, we are being optimistic and are currently planning a Comet Lovejoy viewing party (through wide-field small telescopes and binoculars) on the roof of Smith Lab on the OSU campus on Friday, Jan 23, starting at 6 pm and going until 8:30 pm or so (depending on how many people show up and how cold we are).

Warning: comet will appear as a fuzzy blob. Unless your eyes are cameras with long shutter times, tails will not be visible. But the excitement will be!

Also on view: Mercury and Venus, crescent moon, Mars. Come early for the first items!

This event does need reasonable weather, so we will announce cancellation of the event as a news item on THIS PAGE, on Facebook and on Twitter. Fingers crossed that we won't have to!

For directions to Smith Lab, see
http://planetarium.osu.edu/directions

Weather Status: Currently go for LAUNCH!

Image Credit & Copyright: Velimir Popov & Emil Ivanov (IRIDA Observatory)

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