The Department of Astronomy participated in the Museum of the Dark event at the Museum of the Earth on October 29, 2009.
Check back - we hope to do it again in 2010!

Explore the Museum after-hours Halloween-style! Astronomers from Cornell will be on hand to answer questions and add to the fun as you explore the Solar System, look through a telescope (weather permitting), make comets from dry ice, see what you look like in the thermal infrared, find out how much you weigh on the moon, go on a flashlight tour, hold some creepy crawlies, visit astronomy trick-or-treat stations, make your own cider, and more! Come dressed in your costume and we'll have a spooktacularly good time!

Evening Schedule:

• Making Comets with Dry Ice
• Liquid Nitrogen Ice Cream
• Learn to make a scale model of planets in the solar system
• Dark Matter
• How Many Stars in a Galaxy?
• Spandex Universe
• Our Moon
• Pumpkin Constellation Patters
• Infrared Camera
• Planet Bottles
• Mars
• Spectroscopes
• Hands-on Optics
• Looking through a Telescope
• Observe the night sky with telescopes
• Check out some creepy crawly insects
• Meet some of the Cayuga Nature Center's slithery creatures
• Help make your own Apple Cider in our press
• Flashlight Tour of the Museum at 7:30