Hello all! Welcome to 2009, the International Year of Astronomy!

Public viewing starts up this week. Wednesday night viewing at
RLM will be from 7 to 9 p.m. to start the semester. We'll change
to 8 to 10 p.m. for March 11. There will be no viewing on March 18
and then we'll resume on March 25. The time will remain from 8 to 10
for the remainder of the semester. The last public night for the spring
will be May 6.

The Painter Hall Telescope will be open on Friday and Saturday nights
from 7 to 9 p.m. this week through March 7. The times will move to
8 to 10 p.m. on March 13 and 14 and the telescope will not be open on
March 20 and 21. Viewing will resume on March 27 and continue to
May 9.

Location, telescope, parking and weather cancellation information is
available on the website: http://outreach.as.utexas.edu/public/viewing.html

I've also put an observing calendar and resource guide for the IYA up in
the files section, which some of you might find interesting.
It's a MS Word document:
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/UT-Astronomy/files/

Clear skies!
Lara Eakins
UT Astronomy