Celebrate the final weekend of International Dark Sky Week with a brew! In recognition of International Dark Sky Week and their 7 year founding anniversary, Flagstaff’s Dark Sky Brewery is teaming up with Lowell Observatory to bring you Dark Sky Weekend, two nights of beer, stargazing, prizes, and more! April 30 at Lowell Observatory | […]
Celebrate This Rare Event At Lowell Come to Lowell Observatory to witness this amazing and rare celestial event: the Total Lunar Eclipse! Enjoy festivities throughout the evening, from 5pm – midnight. Lowell Observatory will have the Chile Box food truck, Historic Brewing Co. beer, poi performances, a fun scavenger hunt, face painting, special science talks, […]
Rocket through space and sail among billions of stars and galaxies. Utilizing some amazing simulation software, astronomer Dean Regas guides you through the mind-boggling scale of the universe. Along the way, you’ll stop by the Moon and individual planets. Then, you’ll make the jump to light speed and head to interstellar space to see all the […]
Summer Solstice | June 21st 2022 Hosted by Peppercorn Games Join us on the Summer Solstice for an ethereal night of dance, acrobatic, stunt, and circus performances set under the dark skies at Lowell Observatory. At this narrative-driven variety show, audience members will revel with dancers, acrobats, stuntmen, and more as they tell the colorful […]
William Herschel and the Universe - A Documentary Film by George Sibley William Herschel, a 42 year old musician and amateur astronomer, discovered the first "new" planet in history in 1781. His telescopes, observations and theories transformed what was the clockwork universe imagined by Isaac Newton into the evolutionary and wonder-filled cosmos we know today. […]
Meteor Crater and Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, set the stage for a fantastic Asteroid Day celebration. Flagstaff’s “Big Impact Event” will highlight the Meteor Crater, formed 50,000 years ago, representing the best preserved meteor impact site in the world. Meteor Crater is 700 feet deep, more than an astronomical 4,000 feet across, and 2.4 […]
Lowell42 | Examining a Genius: The Triumph and Tragedy of Robert Burnham, Jr. Robert Burnham, Jr. compiled one of the most popular astronomy books ever—the three-volume observing bible, Burnham’s Celestial Handbook—while working at Lowell Observatory in the mid-20th century. Yet Burnham was enigmatic and tragic in many ways. Lowell Observatory Historian Kevin Schindler will host […]
Join The Yoga Experience and Lowell Observatory for our annual Yoga Under the Stars event! The doors open for this very special event at 6:00pm, the yoga class is from 6:30-7:30pm. Class will be accompanied by live local symphony music by Slugs from Space and an orchestra of colors as the sun sets, leading us into a […]
What’s better than stargazing? Stargazing AND beer! Join us on Thursday, August 30 at 7pm for Beerstronomy, a night of constellation tours, stargazing, and brews from Historic Brewing Company. A special commemorative beer glass and two rounds of beer come free with every ticket purchase! Guests must be 21+ years of age with a valid […]
Tuesday, September 6, 2022 7:00 PM 8:00 PM Through the last 70 million years the Colorado River has evolved, changed its flow direction, and added tributaries. And our geologic understanding of the rivers history is also changing. Ancestors to the modern river system could only have come into being after the withdrawal of the Western […]
Many Colorado River runners find themselves drawn to the geology cut by the river. It is easy to become fascinated by the different strata, their colors, and how they shape the canyon walls that bound the river. But the geology of the river is more than a rock record. It is a biological treatise of […]
What’s better than stargazing? Stargazing AND beer! Join us on Tuesday, September 13 at 7:00pm for Beerstronomy, a night of constellation tours, stargazing, and brews from Historic Brewing Company. A special commemorative beer glass and two rounds of beer come free with every ticket purchase! Guests must be 21+ years of age with a valid […]