Jack Pitkin, senior teaching laboratory specialist of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga’s Physics and Astronomy Department, has announced the spring schedule of lectures and planetarium shows in Jones Observatory.
The observatory, located at 10 N. Tuxedo Ave. in Brainerd, is operated by the university and Barnard Astronomical Society.
The free series begins Sunday, Jan. 21, at the observatory. Each Sunday-night session includes a lecture topic, planetarium show followed by telescope viewing.
Gates open at 5:30 p.m., lectures begin at 6 followed by telescope viewing until 8 p.m. Beginning Sunday, March 25, through the end of the series on April 22, the times will change. Gates will open at 6:30 p.m., with lectures at 7 followed by telescope viewing until 9 p.m.
For more information: 423-425-4518.