Summer at CSI
 Events

Summer at CSI: Summer Events Schedule
June 4 -July 22, 2008

Celebrate Summer at CSI! Wednesday Snack Breaks and Craft Activities, summer trips, barbecues and more…

• For a full schedule of events, click here. (in pdf format)
  
  

June 26th at the Observatory

Weather permitting on this moonless night, visit the CSI Astrophysical Observatory beginning at 9:00pm to view the Globular Cluster M3 (ancient stars in a satellite group of our Milky Way Galaxy); M104 Sombrero Galaxy; Alcor, the triple system of stars in Ursa Major (The Big Dipper); Saturn and its majestic rings; M13, the great globular cluster in Hercules; M57 The Ring Nebula, the best-known planetary nebula; Epsilon Lyrae, a quadruple system commonly called the Double-Double; Albiero in Cygnus the Swan (Northern Cross) is one of the most beautiful double stars; M11 The Wild Duck Cluster, an intense spread of stars in an open cluster; M27 Dumbbell Nebula in Vulpecula (planetary nebula); the planet Jupiter and the Galilean moons. 

The CSI Astrophysical Observatory (Building 6N) is not open on nights when the sky is mostly cloudy. Please call (718) 982.3260 ONE HOUR BEFORE THE SCHEDULED TIME before you travel to campus.

• Astrophysical Observatory at CSI