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Even though we had some flight issues, things went well with Starship says Flight Director Barkley.

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Sorry to all for the short notice, but due to the cloud situation and more rolling up from the south we will be closed tonight. We'll give it another shot next Wednesday.

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The weather gave us a great send off for the 2025-2026 Academic Year at Laws. We had beautiful clear skies, light winds and perfect May temperatures. Randy Durk was in the dome with the big scope and grad student Tom Sun (left) had a Celestron-8 out on the roof. Tom is headed to Cal Tech next Fall -- Congratulations!!

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Let's hope this never happens at MU. After some research it seems there was only about 11 of these scopes made that is like the one at Laws.

Coming up June 9th. Venus and Jupiter side by side, with Mercury low on the horizon...behind that dang tree! I'm going to call Stellarium software and say...cut that tree down!

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Looks like we will have clear skies tonight and we’re opening from 8-10PM!

Well, here we go again. Clouds have rolled in and we we're looking forward to showing Jupiter and Venus tonight. So we will once again be closed again tonight. Hopefully mother nature won't make a fool of us like she did last Wednesday night. Maybe May weather will be better this year.

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We will unfortunately be closed tonight due to the cloudy conditions. Although it may get clear later, the weather is still not predictable. We will see you, hopefully, next Wednesday!