BASF Star Party: Berkeley

• 8 - 10 pm: If the weather is clear, we will be observing on the Main Plaza of the Lawrence Hall of Science in the hills above the Berkeley campus, through some of our "Saturday Night Stargazing" telescopes, with the astronomy staff. The event will be free and open to the public. Please park in the East Lot or the Vista Lot -- parking is free after 8:00 p.m.
• Besides views of our own Moon, we'll be enjoying views of Jupiter and its four large moons, all lined up in a row, two on either side of Jupiter. Several deep sky objects will also be visible: Starting with the Double Cluster in Perseus, we'll move on to the slightly older stars of the stars of the Pleiades. From there, we'll continue on to the famous blue & gold double star, Albireo, and then on to the dying star that formed the Ring Nebula. If that's not enough, we'll also try for the globular cluster -- a dense cluster of old stars -- M15 and the Andromeda Galaxy.

For more information, visit us at http://sites.google.com/site/lhsstargazing/ or follow us on Twitter as @lhsstargazing.