Mt. Lemmon SkyCenter

Great educational experience and a lot of fun too! For a couple hours in the evening, Adam, our tour guide, did a great job teaching and engaging us in astronomy and the constellations. A light dinner was also served. We got to view the sky with 32 inch telescope and see in amazing detail the craters on our moon, the planet Jupiter with its 4 moons, some nebulas, a dying star, galaxies, and many other fascinating objects in our sky. We also spent quite a bit of time outside identifying stars and constellations outside with our naked eyes and with binoculars, as well as viewing the setting sun. Completely worth the trip up to Mt. Lemmon, although it gets very cold up there — make sure to bring a winter jacket, gloves, and a warm hat! It is so easy to see that this educational outreach program is a labor of love for Adam, and he makes astronomy so fun and easy to understand for people with all different backgrounds and levels of knowledge in astronomy. Because Tucson is such an ideal place to view the skies, everyone should take the opportunity to visit this place and take a peek inside the telescopes — it’s an opportunity not very many people can say they have done, but it’s been a privilege and a wonderful experience for me that I hope more people can get to experience the night program as well.