Night Sky Festival

Event Description

Stop by MOAS for the Night Sky Festival and peer through a wide variety of telescopes set up outside on the front entrance courtyard. The winter sky is in full view as you observe the crescent Moon, Venus, Jupiter, Pleiades, the Orion Nebula, and much more. Throughout the evening, staff will be performing live outdoor sky tours with green laser pointers, presenting astronomy programs in the Lohman Planetarium, and conducting hands-on activities around the Museum.

Make sure to also include a trip to the nearby ERAU campus for their Astronomy Open House where you will find telescope tours, astronomy presentations, hands-on demonstrations, and have an opportunity to look through one of the largest publicly accessible telescopes in the southeastern United States. Check ERAU’s website for more information about this event: https://observatory.db.erau.edu. 

The outdoor portion of the MOAS Night Sky Festival is free and is weather permitting. 

Parking is limited. Planetarium shows have limited seating and are first-come, first-served.