Coconino Center for the Arts (CCA) is open for a twilight viewing experience 6-9 pm on the 1st and 3rd Thursdays of each month during the exhibition NightVisions: Cultural Interpretations of the Night Sky. Evening hours enable viewing of the exterior video installation SKYGLOWPROJECT at dusk, and an intimate exhibition experience in the gallery. Lowell […]
Have you ever watched the sunset in the east? Join Lowell Observatory's Brian Skiff as he takes you on insightful tour of the subtle transition from sunset into twilight at Flagstaff's Buffalo Park, including the Earth-shadow and Belt of Venus in the east, as well as layered pastel colors over the Sun in the west. […]
Flagstaff Star Party guests can expect an inspiring journey to discover the astronomical knowledge of ancient Arabia and its enduring heritage in some of the star names we use today. Lowell Observatory Chief Marketing and Revenue Officer Dr. Danielle Adams, a cultural astronomer, will use the slow darkening of the twilight sky to showcase the importance […]
Dark energy is the leading candidate for the mechanism that is responsible for causing the cosmological expansion to accelerate. Bharat Ratra will describe the astronomical data which persuade cosmologists that (as yet undetected) dark energy and dark matter are by far the main components of the energy budget of the universe at the present time. […]
Look back at the Apollo 11 mission which sent Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins to the Moon in 1969. Your tour guide is astronomer Dean Regas who will share some amazing pictures, footage, and anecdotes about the first people to walk on the Moon. Then we will look ahead to the Artemis missions […]
Join photographer and amateur astronomer Jeremy Perez for a special science talk at Lowell Observatory! From tempestuous weather to space weather, storm chasing and space event chasing can expand our opportunities under dark skies. This photographic tour will explore beautiful night skies and the weather and other events that mingle with them.
Does your favorite star have an Arabic name? Join cultural astronomer Dr. Danielle Adams as she showcases the importance of dark skies to the development of the rich cultural traditions of indigenous Arabian astronomy. Drawing from 6th–10th century CE Arabic texts, she will demonstrate how dark desert skies enabled faint stars near the limits of […]