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Desert Night Sky: Planets to Galaxies
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Price: $60.00
| Date/Time: | Saturday, May 11, 2 pm – 10 pm |
| Meet at: | Oasis Visitor Center, 74485 National Park Dr., Twentynine Palms, CA 92277 |
| Fee: | $50 JTNPA/PINE members, $60 non-members |
| Instructor: | David Chappell, Ph.D., Astronomy, Associate Professor of Physics & Astronomy, University of La Verne |
| Hike Level: | Easy |
Warm April nights are a perfect time to experience the newly emerging spring night sky. The brilliant stars of winter have sunk beneath the horizon and spring galaxies swirl high in the heavens. David Chappell, Associate Professor of Astronomy and Physics at the University of La Verne, will lead participants on a tour of the heavens starting with the planets and ending with distant galaxies during this one-day field class. Starting indoors, the course will cover basic astronomy and practical observing techniques as well as recent discoveries in astronomy. Just before sunset, the class will travel into Joshua Tree National Park to observe the night sky. Telescopes and binoculars will be used to see the rings of Saturn, the Great Orion Nebula, dozens of galaxies, and more. Don’t miss this great opportunity to discover the universe that surrounds us!
If you are a member of JTNPA/PINE you will get a $10 discount off every Desert Institute class. Please enter the registrants name exactly as it appears in our membership database. If you are not a member you can become one here. Simply add membership to the cart and choose the discounted class in the options above.
Each participant is required to bring a signed Desert-Institute-Participant-Agreement.pdf to the class. Download it here.
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| Additional Participants | You may register more than one participant in this class by changing the Quantity at the bottom of this form. Please enter the name, address, phone number and email address for each additional participant in the box below. |
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