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Last updated April 28, 2003
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Facilities History Locator Maps Public Nights Schedules

April 2003
(Friday evenings, 8:30 to 10:00 p.m., when UF classes in session—weather permitting!)

Daylight Savings Time begins 2am, Apr. 6!

Date Objects Movie Activity Special Groups
Apr. 4 -Moon? (waxing crescent), early
-Orion Nebula
-Saturn & Jupiter
-Deep sky objects: nebulae, binary stars, star clusters
And Then There Was Voyager

Runaway Universe
None None
Apr. 11 -Moon (waxing gibbous)
-Orion Nebula
-Saturn & Jupiter
-Mercury? (early)
-Deep sky objects
The Planets

Cosmic Voyage
None None
Apr. 18 -Orion Nebula
-Saturn & Jupiter
-Mercury? (early)
-Deep sky objects
Voyage to the Milky Way Public talk, "A Journey Toward the Gravitational Abyss: Quasars & Black Holes" (Dr. Fred Hamann), New Physics Building 1002, 7:30pm None
Apr. 25 -Orion Nebula (early)
-Jupiter & Saturn
-Deep sky objects
Rained out! None None

(Movies are subject to change depending on availability.)

For more information e-mail us at public@astro.ufl.edu


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