View of a Dark Night session at Overlook Park in White Rock. Courtesy/LAC

COUNTY News:

The Pajarito Astronomers Club will host a “Dark Night” 7:30-11:59 p.m. Saturday, March 29 at Overlook Park in White Rock.

The Pajarito Astronomers Club hosts County-sponsored Dark Night observing sessions through November. These sessions are open to the public and occur once a month (on a Saturday evening near a new moon) when Los Alamos County turns off all the athletic field lights at the park.

A typical session will have 15-50 people looking through 4-6 telescopes, viewing galaxies, planets, star clusters, the moon and much more. Weather permitting, observing sessions start at sunset and end before midnight.

Dark Nights begin at sunset at Spirio Soccer Field at Overlook Park in White Rock. Visible will be planets, a variety of colorful double stars, galaxies, gaseous nebulae, open star clusters and globular star clusters. A constellation tour of the night sky will be provided.

The public is invited and encouraged to attend this free event.

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