AstroFriday

The San Juan College (SJC) Planetarium invites the community to its next AstroFriday presentation, “Sunstruck,” this Friday, May 8, with showtimes at 7:30 and 8:30 p.m. Admission is free, but seating is limited to 60 people per show and is available on a first-come, first-served basis. To preserve dark-adaptation, there is no late admittance into the planetarium once the show has started.

This month’s feature is a solar full-dome show about 21 minutes in length. Travel back to the beginning of time and experience the birth of the Sun. Discover how it came to support life, how it threatens life as we know it and how its energy will one day fade away. After the full-dome video, a live night sky show will be presented to bring us up to date as to what to observe in the evening sky of May. Free spring sky maps will be available while supplies last.

Weather permitting, a public stargaze will follow at 9:30 p.m. in the courtyard behind the Planetarium. The stargaze has no capacity limit and will feature the majestic planet Jupiter, the “double-double” stars Alcor and Mizar and our binary North Star, Polaris. If weather conditions are particularly clear, we may also see such deep-sky objects as the Beehive Cluster in Cancer, the Coma Berenices Star Cluster, the globular cluster M13 in Hercules, the Sombrero Galaxy in Virgo and the galactic pair, M81 and M82, in Ursa Major.

The planetarium reserves the right to substitute shows. It is also possible (though not probable) for there to be a change in a show's date due to unforeseen circumstances. 

For more information, please feel free to call David Mayeux at 566-3361, or e-mail at mayeuxd@sanjuancollege.edu. Further information about Planetarium presentations and policies are available on the web on the SJC Planetarium Facebook page, or on the Events page on the SJC website. 

2026 AstroFriday Schedule

• May 8 - Sunstruck (Fulldome) - 7:30 to 8:30 with Stargaze at 9:30

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