Public viewing at our observatory.
OHC:
Date: Saturday, June 21, 2025
Time: 8:30 p.m. - 11:55 p.m. Eastern
Location:
U of M Observatory at Peach Mountain
Dexter, MI
University Lowbrow Astronomers
Open House at Peach Mountain
Saturday, June 21, 2025
Event
Information for Visitors
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Sunset: 9:17 PM -
Moon: Waning Crescent -
What's in the Sky this evening?
Location Details
U of M Observatory at Peach Mountain
http://www.umich.edu/~lowbrows/calendar/map-peach.html
http://www.umich.edu/~lowbrows/calendar/map-peach.html
Notes:
No white lights, cell phones, or smoking.
No white lights, cell phones, or smoking.
Contact University Lowbrow Astronomers for more information.
Phone:
734-747-6585
Event Report
Comments and anecdotes about the event:
We typically are concerned about getting enough help for these events, but in this case, we outnumbered the guests! It was a cloudless evening but very warm and humid. Transparency was not really good and seeing was poor. We had a fairly strong and gusty wind which was favorable in that it kept the mosquitoes from eating us. We made the most of it by showing our guests a variety of brighter DSO's. We started as it was getting dark and continued until about 1:30 AM. Club members coming out to help in some ways were Jim Forrester, Jack Brisbin (McMath), Charlie Nielsen (OHC, McMath), Ken Cook (Greeter), Adrian Bradley, Fred Schebor, Tim Miller, Barry Wissman, Joe Archbold, Lee Shroder, Matt and Amy West, Zoltan, Tad and Rune.
We typically are concerned about getting enough help for these events, but in this case, we outnumbered the guests! It was a cloudless evening but very warm and humid. Transparency was not really good and seeing was poor. We had a fairly strong and gusty wind which was favorable in that it kept the mosquitoes from eating us. We made the most of it by showing our guests a variety of brighter DSO's. We started as it was getting dark and continued until about 1:30 AM. Club members coming out to help in some ways were Jim Forrester, Jack Brisbin (McMath), Charlie Nielsen (OHC, McMath), Ken Cook (Greeter), Adrian Bradley, Fred Schebor, Tim Miller, Barry Wissman, Joe Archbold, Lee Shroder, Matt and Amy West, Zoltan, Tad and Rune.