The Pagosa Sidewalk Astronomers will host free, educational public events at which you can use your binoculars to see large deep-sky objects.
During a constellation tour, we will point to where the objects can be seen and provide their classification and interesting facts about each.
Four nights are scheduled during the moonless nights toward the end of March, including spring break: March 17, 19, 21 and 29. Let’s hope for clear skies.
Bring a pair of binoculars (they don’t have to be high magnification) and meet at the Coyote Hill trailhead at 8:15 p.m. The tour of the night sky will begin promptly at 8:30 p.m. and last 30-45 minutes.
Parking attendants wearing reflective vests will be on hand to assist. Overflow parking and late arrivals, please use the Turkey Springs trailhead parking lot. Please turn off your headlights ASAP so that our eyes can adjust to the darkness. We should be able to view binary star systems, planets, star clusters and even a nebula or galaxy, if we’re lucky. Come out and enjoy Pagosa’s dark sky.
Bring binoculars, warm clothes, warm shoes, warm hat, gloves or hand warmers, flashlight or headlamp (red light preferred), optionally a phone app of night sky (like Stellarium).
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