{"id":38175,"date":"2016-02-12T21:29:02","date_gmt":"2016-02-12T21:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/?p=38175"},"modified":"2016-02-23T17:04:35","modified_gmt":"2016-02-23T17:04:35","slug":"observe-outer-space-at-accs-star-party-from-the-round-rock-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/2016\/02\/12\/observe-outer-space-at-accs-star-party-from-the-round-rock-campus\/","title":{"rendered":"Observe outer space at ACC\u2019s Star Party from the Round Rock Campus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Austin Community College (ACC) invites the community to stargaze at its first star party of the semester Friday, February 19, from 5:30 to 9:30 p.m. at Round Rock Campus (4400 College Park Dr.).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a great opportunity for ACC students and other members of the community to experience the wonders of the sky, and hear about some cutting-edge research,\u201d says Dr. Jim Heath, ACC professor of astronomy. \u201cWith our partners we are able to offer unique educational tools to our students.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The free event features planetarium shows, a presentation on Planet 9, and a rooftop guided viewing of the night sky.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>5:30 \u2013 7:30 p.m. \u2013 Enjoy shows in the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.txmost.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Austin Planetarium<\/a> Discovery Dome, a digital mobile planetarium (Building 2000, lobby).<\/li>\n<li>7 \u2013 8 p.m. \u2013\u201cPlanet 9 and Visiting Pluto: New Discoveries in Our Old Solar System,\u201d a presentation by ACC astronomy professor Dr. Michael Endl (Building 3000, Room 339).<\/li>\n<li>8 \u2013 9:30 p.m. \u2013 Observe the night sky through the Physical Sciences Department\u2019s telescopes (Building 3000).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more information, visit the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.austincc.edu\/astro\/starparty.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Star Party webpage<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Austin Community College (ACC) invites the community to stargaze at its first star party of the semester Friday, February 19, from 5:30 to 9:30 p.m. at Round Rock Campus (4400 College Park Dr.). \u201cThis is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/2016\/02\/12\/observe-outer-space-at-accs-star-party-from-the-round-rock-campus\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3934,"featured_media":37174,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13,17],"tags":[29,789,89,788,787,105,790],"class_list":["post-38175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-and-community","category-current-students","category-news-and-announcements","tag-astronomy","tag-night","tag-physical-sciences","tag-sky","tag-space","tag-star-party","tag-telescopes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3934"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}