StarLab Visit In the News & Disney Volunteer Days

Some nice pictures and a description of our StarLab in action made the Elyria Chronicle-Telegram today. Schuele Planetarium Director Jay Reynolds took the starry sky dome and astronomy lessons on the road to the Boys and Girls Clubs of Lorain County last night.

The story, linked here, centers around a volunteer who helped with our portable planetarium and earned a Disney day in the process. By the way, Lake Erie Nature & Science Center is also participating in the Disney program. (Photo above is from the Chronicle Telegram's Chuck Humel. His complete slide-show is at this link.)

NASA Cancels May 2 Stagazing Event

The NASA Glenn Visitor's Center issued a statement today canceling the May 2nd Stargazing Event:
"In light of the health issue and other contributing factors, out of concern for our general public, we are officially cancelling the Stargazing event that was scheduled for Saturday, May 2."-NASA Glenn Visitors Center
Lake Erie Nature & Science Center's Schuele Planetarium staff was a collaborating partner for the event and planned to take all of our programming for the day off-site to NASA. Because of the event cancellation, all May 2 Schuele Planetarium programs, including the 7 p.m. "Monthly SkyQuest" & telescopes, will now run on our usual schedule here at Lake Erie Nature & Science Center.
Check the public program schedule for the planetarium here.

StarLab in Action in Sandusky

"Parents and children were seeing stars Thursday night. The Schuele Planetarium portable StarLab from the Lake Erie Nature & Science Center brought the night sky to 60 participants before the sun had even set." -- That's an excerpt from Friday's Sandusky Register. The article, along some beautiful photos of the event by Luke Wark, are posted on the newspaper's website. Planetarium Specialist Suzie Dills conducted the program. If you don't know about the wonderful, inflatable, moveable StarLab, read all about it back on the Planetarium/Outreach pages of our website.