{"id":45669,"date":"2018-08-23T14:53:31","date_gmt":"2018-08-23T14:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/?p=45669"},"modified":"2018-08-24T21:24:24","modified_gmt":"2018-08-24T21:24:24","slug":"explore-the-night-sky-during-star-party-8-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/2018\/08\/23\/explore-the-night-sky-during-star-party-8-31\/","title":{"rendered":"Explore the night sky during Star Party, 8\/31, at Round Rock Campus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Austin Community College (ACC) invites the community to stargaze at its first star party of the semester 6 p.m. Friday, August 31, at Round Rock Campus (4400 College Park Dr.).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThis is a unique time to explore the sky. This summer, Mars is closer to the Earth than it&#8217;s been in 15 years,\u201d says Dr. Jim Heath, ACC professor of astronomy. \u201cWe\u2019ll learn more about the Red Planet and turns on the telescopes. It\u2019s a great event for the whole family.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The free event features hands-on science activities, talks and a viewing of Mars, and observations of other night sky objects.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">6 &#8211; 7:30 p.m. \u2014 Hands-on science activities courtesy of ACChaos (Building 2000, lobby)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">6:30 &#8211; 7:30 p.m. \u2014 \u201cVisions of the Red Planet: \u00a0Mars Before the Space Age&#8221; by Dr. Jim Heath (Building 3000, Room 339)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">7:30 &#8211; 8:30 p.m. \u2014 &#8220;Exploring the Red Planet: \u00a0Mars in the Space Age&#8221; by Dr. Michael Endl <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">8:30 &#8211; 11:45 p.m. \u2014 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Observe the night sky through the Physical Sciences Department\u2019s telescopes (Building 3000 observing deck and parking lot)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For more information, visit the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.austincc.edu\/astro\/starparty.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Star Party webpage<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Austin Community College (ACC) invites the community to stargaze at its first star party of the semester 6 p.m. Friday, August 31, at Round Rock Campus (4400 College Park Dr.). \u201cThis is a unique time &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/2018\/08\/23\/explore-the-night-sky-during-star-party-8-31\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3556,"featured_media":45674,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,17,18,19],"tags":[2005,2006,2007,424,2008,2004,105],"class_list":["post-45669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-facstaff-news","category-news-and-announcements","category-official-acc-press-releases","category-students-and-alumni","tag-acchaos","tag-mars","tag-physical-sciences-department","tag-round-rock-campus","tag-science","tag-star","tag-star-party"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45669","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\/3556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}