Record of Events at the ONU Observatory
The ONU Observatory has been holding public events since Fall of 2010.
These records were compiled and de-duplicated in reverse-chronological order
using AI.
Fall 2022 Schedule
- Sunday, Aug 21, 8:30-9:30 pmONU Event"Welcomefest Open House"
- Friday, Sept 16, 9:00-11:00 pmPublic Event"Neptune at its closest"
- Friday, Sept 23, 8:00-10:00 pmPublic Event"Autumnal Equinox and Jupiter approaching opposition"
- Friday, Oct 21, 8:00-10:00 pmPublic Event"Orionid Meteor Shower"
- Friday, Nov 11, 8:00-10:00 pmPublic Event"Uranus at Opposition"
- Friday, Dec 9, 8:00-10:00 pmPublic Event"Opposition of Mars"
Fall 2021 Schedule
- Sunday, Aug 22, 8:30-9:30 pmONU Event"Welcomefest Meet-n-greet"
- Friday, Sept 24, 8:30-10:30 pmONU Event"Jupiter and Saturn put on a show"
- Friday, Oct 8, 8:00-10:00 pmONU Event"Draconid meteor shower"
- Friday, Oct 29, 8:00-10:00 pmONU Event"Venus - high and bright"
- Friday, Dec 3, 8:00-10:00 pmONU Event"Deep sky comets"
Fall 2020 Schedule
Regretfully, the ONU Observatory will not be hosting public events in the foreseeable future until the COVID-19 virus is under control.
Spring 2020 Schedule
- Friday, Feb 14, 7:00-8:00 pmPublic Event"Venus, Goddess of Love"
- Friday, Feb 28, 8:00-10:00 pmPublic Event"Leap Days and Time"
- Friday, Mar 6, 8:00-10:00 pmPublic Event"Moon in the Beehive"
- Friday, Mar 20, 8:30-10:30 pmPublic Event"The Vernal Equinox"
- Friday, Mar 27, 9:00-11:00 pmPublic Event"Venus at Greatest Elongation"
- Friday, Apr 17, 9:00-11:00 pmPublic Event"Comet C/2017 T2 PANSTARRS"
- Friday, Apr 24, 9:00-11:00 pmPublic Event"Galaxies of Spring"
Fall 2019 Schedule
- Sunday, Aug 25, 8:30-9:30 pmONU Event"Welcomefest Meet-n-greet"
- Friday, Sept 20, 9:00-11:00 pmPublic Event"Fall Star Party"
- Friday, Oct 4, 8:00-10:00 pmPublic Event"Moon between Saturn and Jupiter"
- Friday, Oct 25, 8:00-10:00 pmPublic Event"Blue planets in opposition"
- Monday, Nov 11, 10:00 am - 12:00 pmDaytime Public Event"The transit of Mercury across the Sun"
Spring 2019 Schedule
- Friday, Feb 1, 8:00-10:00 pmPublic Event"The Fading Comets of 2019"
- Friday, Mar 1, 7:00-9:00 pmPublic Event"Greatest elongation of Mercury"
- Friday, Mar 22, 9:00-11:00 pmPublic Event"Vernal Equinox"
- Friday, Mar 29, 9:00-11:00 pmPublic Event"Supernovae and their remnants"
- Friday, Apr 5, 9:00-11:00 pmPublic Event"Galaxies of Spring"
- Friday, May 3, 9:00-11:00 pmPublic Event"Eta Aquariid Meteors"
Fall 2018 Schedule
- Sunday, Aug 19, 9:00-10:00 pmONU Student Event"Welcomefest Open House"
- Friday, Sept 7, 9:00-11:00 pmPublic Event"Opposition of Neptune"
- Friday, Sept 21, 8:00-10:00 pmPublic Event"Autumnal Equinox"
- Friday, Oct 12, 8:00-10:00 pmPublic Event"Observe the Crescent Moon"
- Friday, Nov 9, 8:00-10:00 pmPublic Event"Asteroids and OSIRIS-REx"
- Friday, Dec 7, 8:00-10:00 pmPublic Event"Comet Wirtanen"
Summer 2018 Schedule
- M-W, June 11-13, 9:00-11:00 pmPrivate Event"Summer Academic Honors Institute (SAHI)"
- Monday, June 18, 9:00-10:30 pmPrivate Event"The Ada Library Summer Reading Program"
- Monday, July 30, 9:30-11:00 pmPublic Event"Opposition of Mars"
Summer 2017 Schedule
- Monday, Aug 21, 1:30-3:30 pmPublic Event"The Great American Eclipse"
Spring 2017 Schedule
- Friday, Jan 27, 8:00-10:00 pmPublic Event"The ISS flies by Mars and Venus"
- Friday, Feb 17, 8:00-10:00 pmPublic Event"Brilliant Venus"
- Friday, Mar 3, 8:00-10:00 pmPublic Event"Craters and Maria of the Moon"
- Friday, Mar 17, 9:00-11:00 pmPublic Event"Star Formation in Orion"
- Friday, Mar 31, 9:00-11:00 pmPublic Event"Glimpse Mercury -> Comet Pours from Big Dipper"
- Friday, Apr 7, 9:00-11:00 pmPublic Event"Jupiter at opposition"
- Friday, Apr 21, 9:00-11:00 pmPublic Event"Galaxies of Spring"
Fall 2016 Schedule
- Saturday, Aug 27, 6:30-8:00 pmPublic Event"Jupiter and Venus together!"
- Friday, Sept 9, 9:00-11:00 pmPublic Event"Explore the Crescent Moon"
- Friday, Sept 30, 8:00-10:00 pmPublic Event"Mars Near the Lagoon"
- Friday, Oct 21, 8:00-10:00 pmPublic Event"Orionid Meteor Shower"
- Friday, Nov 4, 8:00-10:00 pmPublic Event"The Blue Planets: Uranus and Neptune"
- Friday, Nov 25, 8:00-10:00 pmPublic Event"What We Learned From New Horizons"
Spring 2016 Schedule
- Friday, Feb 5, 8:00-10:00 pmPublic Event"Comet C/2013 US10 Catalina"
- Friday, Feb 12, 8:00-10:00 pmPublic Event"Where Have the Bright Planets Gone?"
- Friday, Mar 11, 9:00-11:00 pmPublic Event"Jupiter's Shrinking Red Spot"
- Friday, Apr 1, 9:00-11:00 pmPublic Event"Galaxies of Spring"
- Friday, Apr 15, 9:00-11:00 pmPublic Event"Craters and Maria of the Moon"
- Monday, May 9, 9:00-11:00 amPublic Event"Mercury transits the Sun!"
Fall 2015 Schedule
- Sunday, Aug 23, 8:30-10:30 pmONU Event"Welcomefest - Astronomy Club Open House"
- Friday, Sept 4, 8:30-10:30 pmPublic Event"Saturn and Mercury setting early"
- Sunday, Sept 27, 9:00-11:00 pmPublic Event"Total Lunar Eclipse"
- Friday, Oct 9, 8:00-10:00 pmPublic Event"Tears from the Dragon"
- Friday, Oct 16, 8:00-10:00 pmPublic Event"The Andromeda Galaxy"
- Friday, Nov 13, 8:00-10:00 pmPublic Event"What we've learned of Pluto."
- Friday, Dec 11, 8:00-10:00 pmPublic Event"The Geminid Meteor Shower"
Spring 2015 Schedule
- Monday, Jan 26, 8:00-10:00 pmPublic Event"Asteroid Close Encounter"
- Friday, Feb 6, 8:00-10:00 pmPublic Event"The Opposition of Jupiter"
- Friday, Mar 20, 9:00-11:00 pmPublic Event"Spring Equinox and a New Moon"
- Friday, Apr 10, 9:00-11:00 pmPublic Event"Galaxies of Spring"
- Friday, Apr 24, 9:00-11:00 pmPublic Event"Craters and Maria; Observing the Moon"
- Friday, May 8, 9:00-11:00 pmPublic Event"Spot Mercury and Venus"
Fall 2014 Schedule
- Friday, Aug 29, 8:30-10:30 pmPublic Event"Comet Rendezvous / Neptune Opposition"
- Friday, Sept 19, 8:30-10:30 pmPublic Event"The Andromeda Galaxy"
- Friday, Oct 17, 8:00-10:00 pmPublic Event"The Opposition of Uranus"
- Friday, Oct 31, 8:00-10:00 pmPublic Event"Halloween and the Moon"
- Friday, Nov 14, 8:00-10:00 pmPublic Event"Seeing in the Leonids"
- Friday, Dec 12, 8:00-10:00 pmPublic Event"The Geminid Meteor Shower"
Spring 2014 Schedule
- Friday, Jan 31, 8:00-10:00 pmPublic Event"Supernova in M82!"
- Friday, Feb 21, 8:00-10:00 pmPublic Event"Star formation in Orion"
- Friday, Mar 7, 8:00-10:00 pmPublic Event"The Moon in Taurus"
- Friday, Mar 21, 8:00-10:00 pmPublic Event"Asteroids and Occultations"
- Saturday, Apr 19, 9:00-11:00 pmPublic Event"Mars near opposition"
- Friday, May 2, 9:00-11:00 pmPublic Event"Saturn near opposition"
Fall 2013 Schedule
- Friday, Sept 6, 8:00-10:00 pmPublic Event"Venus passing the Virgin"
- Friday, Sept 27, 8:00-10:00 pmPublic Event"The Andromeda Galaxy"
- Friday, Oct 4, 8:00-10:00 pmPublic Event"Opposition of the Green Planet"
- Friday, Oct 18, 8:00-10:00 pmPublic Event"Penumbral Lunar Eclipse"
- Friday, Nov 1, 7:30-9:30 pmPublic Event"Maximum Elongation for Venus"
- Friday, Nov 22, 9:00-11:00 pmPublic Event"Jupiter is Back!"
- Friday, Dec 6, 8:00-10:00 pmPublic Event"Mira, the Miracle Star"
Summer 2013 Schedule
- Monday, Aug 12, 9:00-12:00 pmPublic Event"The Perseid Meteor Shower!"
- Friday, May 31, 9:00-11:00 pmPublic Event"Tic-Tac-Toe 3 planets in a row"
Spring 2013 Schedule
- Friday, Feb 1, 8:00-10:00 pmPublic Event"Star formation in Orion"
- Friday, Feb 15, 8:00-10:00 pmPublic Event"Close call Friday: Near Earth Asteroids"
- Friday, Mar 1, 8:00-10:00 pmPublic Event"Jupiter and the Moon"
- Friday, Mar 15, 7:45-10:00 pmPublic Event"Comet PanSTARRS: the first great comet of 2013?"
- Friday, Apr 5, 8:30-10:30 pmPublic Event"Galaxies of Spring"
- Friday, Apr 19, 8:30-10:30 pmPublic Event"Craters of the Moon"
- Friday, May 3, 9:00-11:00 pmPublic Event"Saturn is back!"
Fall 2012 Schedule
- Friday, Sept 21, 8:00-10:00 pmPublic Event"Autumnal equinox"
- Friday, Oct 12, 8:00-10:00 pmPublic Event"Experience ONU Day"
- Friday, Nov 2, 8:00-10:00 pmPublic Event"Comet Hergenrother flies through Pegasus"
- Saturday, Nov 17, 8:00-10:00 pmPublic Event"Leonid Meteor Shower"
- Friday, Dec 7, 8:00-10:00 pmPublic Event"Jupiter at its Brightest"
Summer 2012 Schedule
- Friday, Aug 31, 8:00-10:00 pmPublic Event"Blue Moon Friday"
- Monday, Aug 20, 9:00 pm - 10:00 amCampus Event"Welcomefest Open House"
- Saturday, Aug 11-12, 10:00 pm - 1:00 amPublic Event"Seeing in the Perseids"
- Tuesday, June 5, 7:00-8:00 pmPublic Event"The Transit of Venus!"
2010 - 2011 Historical Events
- Friday, July 29Public Event"The Delta Aquarid Meteors"
- Friday, June 3ONU Event"Alumni weekend"
- Friday, May 6Public Event"The Galaxies of Spring"
- Friday, Mar 25Public Event"Saturn's Serpent Storm"
- Friday, Feb 18Public Event"Full Moon Madness"
- Friday, Jan 28Public Event"Star formation in Orion"
- Friday, Jan 14Public Event"Jupiter Public Star Party"
- Tuesday, Dec 14Public Event"Geminid Star Party"
- Friday, Oct 8, 8:00-10:00 pmONU Event"Inaugural Homecoming Open House"
- Monday, Sept 6ONU Event"Welcomefest for ONU Astro Club"