Stars: For More Than Stoners
One of our more unrealistic items in our life's To-Do List - as unreasonable as, say, buying a chateau in the Rhone Valley and making boutique wines or scaling Kilimanjaro - is going to space. We blame it on repeated childhood viewings of The Last Starfighter and Barbarella. Of course, in recent years, venturing into the vast celestial unknown has become less of a fantasy and more of a possibility - albeit a very costly one - but until we're able to find a CEO to blackmail we have to suffice with stargazing.
To better acquaint the less-nerdy general populace with the wonders of the night skies is the Austin Astronomical Society, which this weekend is hosting "Austin under the Stars". This free event lets you see the Sun and nearby stars through AAS's special filtered telescopes, and is supplemented by a mobile planetarium constructed by Friends of the Austin Planetarium. (Austin, we've just found out, is the lone city out of our nation's most populated 50 that does not possess its own planetarium)
It all happens tomorrow night at 6pm at St. Stephen's Episcopal School.
"Austin under the Stars"
St. Stephen's Episcopal School (pdf map)
Saturday, July 16
6pm-midnight
FREE
