Hello all!

The public viewing on the UT campus telescopes has finished for
the summer and will resume in early September. I'll send out an
email when we've decided on a schedule.

As an extra note, I'm sure most of you already know about this
if you've seen the email, but the "Mars Spectacular" email is
making the rounds again this summer. It is basically the same
message from 2003 recycled and now edited to make it sound like
Mars will appear as large as the full moon that night. Of course,
there is no truth to this at all. Mars will not be making a close
approach on the 27th of this month and it certainly won't look
as large as the full moon! However, there will be a lunar eclipse
on the morning of the 28th of August (because of the early hour
we won't be having a public viewing on our telescopes).

Cheers,
Lara Eakins
UT Astronomy