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36 hours in Tucson with the NYT

The NYT Spends 36 Hours in Tucson - Including the Mt. Lemmon SkyCenter

Rob McGehee, Sky School Assistant Director of Education, talked on the radio about the unique K-12 programming that UA runs atop Mt. Lemmon

Tune into a deep-dive radio segment on the Sky School, featuring Rob McGehee!

Tribal leaders capped off the summit with a trip to Mt. Lemmon SkyCenter for an evening of stargazing – and a quick tutorial from SkyCenter staff on how to see the "green flash" through binoculars just as the sun is setting. Chris Richards/University Communications

Native American representatives and UA leaders visit Steward Observatory’s Mt. Lemmon SkyCenter for Tribal Leaders Summit

Crab Nebula

SkyCenter astrophotographer Travis Deyoe captures a long-exposure image of the Ring Nebula

SkyCenter Night

Congratulations to Mount Lemmon SkyCenter on being on being ranked #1 by the “Space Tourism Guide” in their list of “The Best Observatories in the U.S. to Visit in 2024”

Headline Save the Date March 15-16 Stars Over Sabino image of star trails above mountains, overlaid by nebula with transparency effect and a saguaro cactus to the right

Save the Date: Stars Over Sabino 2024

Stellar Holiday Sale

Stellar Holiday Sale

Messier Marathon 2023, March 18th

Messier Marathon 2023

Stars Over Sabino 2023, March 24-25

Stars Over Sabino 2023

Stars over Sabino

Engineers at the Richard F. Caris Mirror Lab hand-load chunks of glass into the mold. Almost 20 tons of glass are added this way before the lid will be closed and the furnace fired up to melt the glass.

Richard F. Caris Mirror Lab GMT-6 Casting

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The Great Comet of 2020 (NEOWISE)

Mount Lemmon SkyCenter Partners with Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory to Lead Nationwide Livestream Star Party

Giving to the Mt. Lemmon SkyCenter

Image of M15 is a globular cluster - a spherical collection of stars that orbits a galactic core, in the constellation Pegasus.

We are the cosmos