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, […]
Join Lowell Observatory in viewing the 2022 Total Lunar Eclipse LIVE from the Giovale Open Deck Observatory! Starting at 7:15pm PDT on Sunday, May 15, we will be streaming the eclipse using our state-of-the-art TEC APO140FL 5.5" refracting telescope. Watch eclipse-themed presentations from members of Lowell's superstar staff and enjoy live views of the eclipse […]
Join Lowell Observatory on Tuesday, May 17, at MotherRoad Brewery for Astronomy on Tap! Hang out with Lowell Educators John Compton and Juan Ruiz while they talk all about Moon. Meet us outside on the patio starting at 6pm. Trivia and prizes begin around 7pm.
For millennia, humans have asked the question, “Are we alone?" One step in answering this question involves searching for and studying exoplanets—planets around stars other than our Sun. The Lowell Discovery Telescope (LDT) is ideal for such a study. One project, for instance, combines the power of the LDT with a Yale University-built instrument called […]
While the Milky Way Galaxy contains several hundred billion stars, dwarf galaxies have only 1,000 to a few billion. To better understand these diminutive families of stars and how they form, scientists use some of the world’s most powerful instruments. Tonight, Dr. Deidre Hunter and Haylee Archer will join Lowell Historian Kevin Schindler to share […]
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 […]
You will tell Lowell Observatory where to point the telescope in this LIVE Interactive Stargazing experience on June 23 at 10pm PDT! Get ready for the BRAND NEW Interactive Stargazing 2.0: Discover the skies with Lowell Observatory expert educator and TikTok star Hannah Zigo, live from our Giovale Open Deck Observatory. Make requests for objects […]
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. […]
Experience the night skies like you've never seen them before on Monday, June 27 from 8:00 to 9:30PM at Wheeler Park. Join the Flagstaff Public Library and Lowell Observatory for a starry night filled with art, science, and activities for all ages. Use telescopes from Lowell Observatory for a guided tour of the night sky […]
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 […]