The UTA Observatory is located on top of the Park Central parking garage.
UTA’s College of Science and Planetarium are hosting a free Observe the Moon Night from 8:30 to 10:30 p.m. Saturday at the observatory on the top floor of the Park Central garage.
International Observe the Moon Night is a Saturday night in September or October that NASA picks based on when the moon is in the first-quarter phase. The phase increases visibility of the moon’s details.
NASA encourages people around the globe each year to observe the moon as the line between night and day, called the terminator, creates shadows that enhance the moon’s craters.
Planetarium coordinator McKenna Dowd said several telescopes will be available for viewing, including a 16-inch one and several smaller ones in 11, 8 and 6 inches. She also encourages people to bring their own observation equipment.
Dowd said there will also be snacks, music and glow sticks at the community event. Parking information can be found on the UTA observatory website.
“I do really love seeing all the people come together and ask questions, and we all just get to share this thing that makes us so human,” she said. “Because humans have been talking about the sky and looking up for hundreds, if not thousands of years.”
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