| | | Longway Planetarium and Sloan Museum Hosting Free Solar Eclipse Viewing Activities on October 14. |
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Weather permitting, Longway Planetarium will hold a free solar eclipse viewing event on Saturday, October 14, 2023, 11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Telescopes will be made available for community members to view the eclipse in the lawn space between Longway Planetarium and the Flint Institute of Arts off East Kearsley Street in the Flint Cultural Center campus. Guests will also be able to view the eclipse inside the lobby of Longway Planetarium by video. About 34% of the sun will be eclipsed by the moon at the peak of the event at 1:03 p.m. Eclipse viewing glasses are available for $2 a pair at gift shops located inside Longway Planetarium, and at Sloan Museum of Discovery across the street.
For eclipse fans young and old who want to create their own eclipse viewers, Sloan Museum of Discovery will also be offering free make-and-take workshops in the Discovery Lab maker’s space on Saturday, October 14, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. (Bonus! The Lego Club will also be taking place in the Discovery Lab this Saturday 10-11:30 a.m.) Admission to Sloan Museum of Discovery is free to residents of Genesee County and discounted at Longway Planetarium due to the Arts Education and Cultural Enrichment Millage passed by voters in 2018.
After the eclipse, Longway’s Skies Over Michigan live astronomy show at 3 p.m. will intertwine eclipse facts for stargazers with other astronomy events visible in Michigan’s night sky.
NOTE: If it is overcast or raining, the outside telescope viewing event will be canceled. Interested attendees should check Longway Planetarium’s website, Longway.org, before coming. The 3 p.m. Skies Over Michigan planetarium show, and eclipse viewer workshop in the Sloan Museum of Discovery’s maker space, will take place regardless of weather conditions.
Both the solar eclipse eye glasses and the make-and-take eclipse viewer can be used again April 8, 2024, when a near-total eclipse will take place in Flint with 97% of the sun getting obscured by the Moon. At the peak of the April 2024 eclipse, residents will witness darkness at 3:03 p.m. Longway Planetarium and Sloan Museum of Discovery will be announcing plans to celebrate this rare event at a later date. For more information, go to Longway.org, email to Longway@SloanLongway.org, or call the Longway Planetarium at (810) 237-3400. |
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