Planetarium at Montgomery College, TPSS campus, Maryland

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Universarium (inter-displinarium) College Wide

located at the Takoma Park/Silver Spring Campus

Picture of Planetarium on Fenton Street

Directions to the planetarium. Astronomy is the oldest science and one of the few sciences that welcomes amateurs. Everyone who looks up at the stars with wonder is an astronomer.
Details about the planetarium.

Maryland, United States of America, Planet Earth (4.5672 Gyr), going around a star named Sol/Helos, in the Milky Way Galaxy, in the Local Group of galaxies, the Laniakea supercluster, an out lying member of the Virgo Super Cluster around 13.75±0.11 Gyr (billion years) after creation

WHEN is Program Free Public Planetarium SHOWS and Occasional Celestial Spectacle
Saturday, 26 January  2019 at 7P.M How are Stars Born? not the celebrities, but the gravitational controlled thermonuclear fusion reactors that are real stars, in the Planetarium.
Saturday, 16 February 2019 at 7P.M African Skies hear creation myths and how at least 40,000 people got their freedom using Drinking Gourd, the Big Dipper, in the Planetarium.
Wednesday, 20 March 2019 at 7P.M. The Vernal Equinox, the First Day of Spring in the Planetarium.
Saturday, 20 April 2019 at 7P.M Quantum Gravity or how c (the speed of causality), G (the universal gravitational constant), & h (Planck's constant) Create the fabric of Reality in the Planetarium.
Saturday, 4 May 2019 at 7P.M. Star Stories astronomy then music under the stars with Terrasak Patamawenu Thai music on the lao joi, saw duang with others perhaps in the Planetarium.
Sometime in late May 2019
 Everything in the planetarium of value is moved out.
Around 1 July 2019
 Science South, incuding the planetarium building, and Falcon Hall meet the wreaking ball and get knocked down to prepare for the new three storry STEM building with a new much biger planetarium around 50 feet not 24 feet in the Catherine and Isiah Leggett Math and Science Building on the Takoma Park/Silver Spring Campus.
Monday 11 November 2019 during day time!
 Transit of Mercury across the disk of the sun from the roof of the King Street Parking Garage at the TPSS campus if it is not raining or cloudy!
Saturday, 2 November 2019 at 7P.M. Astrolabes, also a STEM celebration event, an ancient instrument, we now have a 500 year old Persian antique, the mathematics has application to fermions, spin 1/2 particles somewhere on campus.
Saturday, 17 September 2022
at 7P.M.
 Mayan Astronomy: Numbers and Calendars in the Planetarium, the new Bigger Planetarium. When the Catherine and Isiah Leggett Math and Science Building opens on the Takoma Park/Silver Spring Campus.
Friday, 13 April 2029 at 8:30P.M.
View 2004MN4, now 99942 Apophis if it is clear from the roof of the King Street Parking Garage or some other high flat place in what ever down town Silver Spring has become that Montgomery College at Takoma Park/Silver Spring controls; or I can get the use of; if I am still alive and employed at the college at age 78, and there is a good chance that I will be as I went into debt for a larger house in late 2012  and will not be able to retire before 2026!  B612Foundation  Search on the Planetary Society with the word Apophis! More plans to save us this time Chinese.
Sunday, 13 April 2036 at a time still to be determined  We have a while. Clean up after the earth is hit by Apophis, the destroyer, only one chance in a million or be thankful much more likely.   View 2004MN4, now 99942 Apophis at age 85, most likely retired by then, but someone will be doing it and I will join them if I am alive, my father was still healthy at this age, maybe I will be as lucky.  B612Foundation.   Search on the Planetary Society with the word Apophis!
The planetarium is located on Fenton Street on the Takoma Park/Silver Spring  campus of Montgomery College.  It is attached to the Science South building on the ground level and has a conspicuous silver colored domed roof. The stars are the province of all of mankind. An astrophysicist will answer questions about the universe. There is no admission charge for these public planetarium programs, but better than many that cost an admission price.  Several thousand people participated in planetarium programs last year.

Special Planetarium Programs

Planetarium shows for College Classes: 
AS, BI, CH, EL, EN, HS,  GL, MA, PH, PL, and others in the Planetarium. 		School Teachers and youth group leaders,
Grade Specific Field Trips for Classes in the Planetarium.
Music/LASER Light Shows,
public planetarium programs not strictly astronomical in the Planetarium. 		Traveling Talks and Navigation before 1492.
for groups that can not come to the planetarium.

Summer Planetarium Programs, Special summer workshop, when the planetarium is closed to the public: like teacher workshops, courses for grade school students, and occasional special programs when something very unusual happens in the sky like the transit of Venus in the summer of 2004 and 2012 (and who knows when the next bright comet may appear).

Astronomy Courses Offered in the planetarium, The only place in the Washington Metro area to take a college astronomy course in a planetarium.  Leaning communities of Linked courses like Astrophilosophy, "Does the Universe have a philosophy?" or Astrobiology, "You are made of the Dust of Exploded Stars!"
MC^3 Montgomery College Documentary Group at Takoma Park/Silver Spring campus!!!  
Monthly Public Planetarium astronomy shows, grade specific shows for school groups, scout and other youth group programs, senior citizen and other adult group programs, monthly music/laser light shows, cultural astronomy shows (Havdalah, Whisper of Creation, Islamic Astronomy, Star of Bethlehem, astrolabes like the Wheeler astrolabe from Tuse, Persia made around 500 years ago before the United States of America existed, and others possible) college astronomy courses, summer teacher workshops, summer youth courses, all from within a planetarium.  Light Pollution and how the county can save much money and reduce breast cancer and testicular cancer in residents of Montgomery County. There was a naked eye comet called 17P/Holmes in Perseus on November 7, 2007 there was a show on it.  Astronomical present recommendations what to buy for the family.  Birthday Parties in the Planetarium?
Last updated Saturday 7:34P.M., 12/22/2018 by Harold Alden Williams, e-mail: Harold.Williams@montgomerycollege.edu   phone 240-567-1463