Music of the Spheres - Virginia Kron, Singing Strings

Lick Observatory hosts its 32nd season of Music of the Spheres summer concerts in 2012. Concerts feature a wide variety of music. Programs include the concert, a talk by a University of California astronomer about current research, and (weather permitting) viewing through the historic Great Lick Refractor and the Nickel 40-inch telescope. Knowledgeable local amateur astronomers outside the buildings provide additional telescopes and informal astronomy discussions.  Children under 10 not admitted.

Speaker: Richard Kron, Univ. of Chicago

Topic: The Pluraiity of Inhabited Worlds:  Astronomy and Popular Imagination, 1800 - 1917

 Tickets on sale May 8.