{"id":415452,"date":"2026-07-28T18:05:05","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T18:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/415452\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T18:05:05","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T18:05:05","slug":"las-griffith-observatory-offers-after-dark-experience-daily-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/415452\/","title":{"rendered":"LA\u2019s Griffith Observatory offers after-dark experience \u2013 Daily News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Griffith Observatory held \u201cABOVE \u00e2\u0080\u0093 Night Gallery: The Stars of...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.dailynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/LDN-L-OBSERVATORY-0729-9_ba3f92.jpg?w=620\"  bad-src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Griffith Observatory held \u201cABOVE \u2013 Night Gallery: The Stars of Summer\u201d, an event that allowed guests to explore the exhibits and telescopes outside of regular public hours, on Monday, July 27, 2026. (Photo by Jacob Lewis, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Griffith Observatory held \u201cABOVE \u00e2\u0080\u0093 Night Gallery: The Stars of...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.dailynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/LDN-L-OBSERVATORY-0729-6.jpg?w=620\"  bad-src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Griffith Observatory held \u201cABOVE \u2013 Night Gallery: The Stars of Summer\u201d, an event that allowed guests to explore the exhibits and telescopes outside of regular public hours, on Monday, July 27, 2026. (Photo by Jacob Lewis, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Griffith Observatory held \u201cABOVE \u00e2\u0080\u0093 Night Gallery: The Stars of...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.dailynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/LDN-L-OBSERVATORY-0729-81.jpg?w=620\"  bad-src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Griffith Observatory held \u201cABOVE \u2013 Night Gallery: The Stars of Summer\u201d, an event that allowed guests to explore the exhibits and telescopes outside of regular public hours, on Monday, July 27, 2026. (Photo by Jacob Lewis, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Griffith Observatory held \u201cABOVE \u00e2\u0080\u0093 Night Gallery: The Stars of...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.dailynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/LDN-L-OBSERVATORY-0729-7.jpg?w=620\"  bad-src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Griffith Observatory held \u201cABOVE \u2013 Night Gallery: The Stars of Summer\u201d, an event that allowed guests to explore the exhibits and telescopes outside of regular public hours, on Monday, July 27, 2026. (Photo by Jacob Lewis, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Griffith Observatory held \u201cABOVE \u00e2\u0080\u0093 Night Gallery: The Stars of...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.dailynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/LDN-L-OBSERVATORY-0729-5.jpg?w=620\"  bad-src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Griffith Observatory held \u201cABOVE \u2013 Night Gallery: The Stars of Summer\u201d, an event that allowed guests to explore the exhibits and telescopes outside of regular public hours, on Monday, July 27, 2026. (Photo by Jacob Lewis, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Griffith Observatory held \u201cABOVE \u00e2\u0080\u0093 Night Gallery: The Stars of...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.dailynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/LDN-L-OBSERVATORY-0729-4-1.jpg?w=620\"  bad-src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Griffith Observatory held \u201cABOVE \u2013 Night Gallery: The Stars of Summer\u201d, an event that allowed guests to explore the exhibits and telescopes outside of regular public hours, on Monday, July 27, 2026. (Photo by Jacob Lewis, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n<p>Show Caption<\/p>\n<p>1 of 6<\/p>\n<p>Griffith Observatory held \u201cABOVE \u2013 Night Gallery: The Stars of Summer\u201d, an event that allowed guests to explore the exhibits and telescopes outside of regular public hours, on Monday, July 27, 2026. (Photo by Jacob Lewis, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"icon-enlarge mng-gallery-fullscreen-expand\" aria-label=\"Expand fullscreen slideshow\">Expand<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The team at Los Angeles\u2019 Griffith Observatory offered an after-dark astronomy experience during \u201cNight Gallery: The Stars of Summer,\u201d on Friday, July 27.<\/p>\n<p>The event offered a guided tour of the night sky without \u201cthe persistent glow of screens and daily distractions,\u201d according to the observatory\u2019s web site.<\/p>\n<p>Griffith Observatory Director Dr. E.C. Krupp hosted the event, at the complex\u2019s Samuel Oschin Planetarium.\u00a0 Attendees enjoyed a deep look of the summer\u2019s constellations and got exclusive after-hours access to exhibits, telescopes and panoramic views of the City of the Angels.<\/p>\n<p>Another edition of the nighttime activity is scheduled for Aug. 17 at 6 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Griffith Observatory held \u201cABOVE \u2013 Night Gallery: The Stars of Summer\u201d, an event that allowed guests to explore&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415453,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[7,179,643,584,48,52,51,47,137,50,49,100,420],"class_list":["post-415452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-california","tag-community","tag-environment","tag-events","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-county","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-news","tag-things-to-do"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}