Website Last Edited January 5th, 2009: Jan-Feb 2009 PMO IMAGE flyer full text posted. Notice also posted in News & Projects area re Special Program at Eugene Planetarium (Science Factory), and Eugene Telescope Workshop, web links added for several astro clubs and for several Observatories to Online Resources and Education Collaborators' areas.
Note link to Noel Carboni's excellent astro-photographs added to Online Resources area (great examples of readily visible types of objects taken with wide field, low magnification), opening date for School Tours to Observatory corrected from April to May.
Venus hangs brightly in the western post sunset sky. Jupiter sinks lower (almost invisible now), Mercury gains elevation until Jan. 12th before plunging back sunward.
Saturn now rises in the east around midnight, under Leo. Don't expect to see the rings very well as they are almost level toward us! See details in News & Projects area.
Orion poses stately high overhead to south by mid-evening.
The "What time is it, Where's the Sun?" international sky education program, with our collaborating school in Japan, is getting underway. Your school is welcome to join us, email me for details!
Time to schedule an outreach visit to your classroom for Winter or Spring!
Click here for details about our CLASSROOM OUTREACH and OBSERVATORY VISIT programs. To schedule outreach/visits and if you have questions, please go to the contact link. Quick info: OUTREACH: Rick Kang at rkang@efn.org or 541-683-1381, Eugene. VISITING PINE MOUNTAIN OBSERVATORY: Mark Dunaway at markpmo@oregon.uoregon.edu, 541-382-8331, Bend. We are looking forward to hearing from you.
The Friends of Pine Mountain citizens' support group was established in 1978. Since 1990, with the advent of UO Professor of Physics Greg Bothun's Electronic Universe concept, we provide outstanding classroom and on-site Observatory outreach, plus staff development activities about astronomy and astrophysics to schools throughout Oregon and beyond. We reach about 100 schools and visit over 200 classrooms each school year. We'd be delighted to visitYOUR school!
