{"id":525372,"date":"2026-03-15T17:39:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T17:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/525372\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T17:39:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T17:39:22","slug":"prime-planet-star-viewing-saturday-and-again-march-21-at-wnc-observatory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/525372\/","title":{"rendered":"Prime planet, star viewing Saturday and again March 21 at WNC observatory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With beautiful weather in the forecast this month, it\u2019s the perfect time to explore the night sky at Western Nevada College\u2019s Jack C. Davis Observatory. Join us for our free Saturday Night Star Parties on tonight and the following week, March 21 from 6:30 to 11:30 p.m. and experience the wonder of the universe.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>With sunny days leading to clear evenings, conditions should be ideal for viewing planets, stars and distant galaxies through the observatory\u2019s powerful telescopes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBoth Uranus and Jupiter are well-positioned for observation,\u201d said JCDO Director Dr. Thomas Herring. \u201cUranus is a nice little fuzzy, blue dot, but Jupiter looks spectacular and the four Galilean moons are easy to see in a telescope. We\u2019ll also be able to see my favorite active star formation region, M42 the Orion Nebula, and some excellent galaxies including Andromeda, Bode\u2019s Galaxy, and the Cigar Galaxy.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t miss a chance at discovery, accessibility and cosmic wonder at WNC\u2019s Jack C. Davis Observatory.<\/p>\n<p>Jack C. Davis Observatory is located at 2269 Vanpatten Ave. on the north end of the WNC campus.<\/p>\n<p>Like this:<\/p>\n<p>Like Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"sd-link-color\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With beautiful weather in the forecast this month, it\u2019s the perfect time to explore the night sky at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":525373,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[6355,6356,79,193],"class_list":["post-525372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-frontpage","tag-frontpage-main","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/525373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}