Let There Be Light
12:40AM ON
06/10/2009
BY
Beth Comery
Another rain delay for the First Light party originally scheduled for tonight, Wednesday, at the Margaret M. Jacoby Observatory on the Knight Campus of CCRI. They will try again on June 17th. Meanwhile Triangle Forest (with frontman and observatory director Professor Britton) are scheduled to play the Providence Art Festival this coming Saturday the 13th . . . weather permitting I suppose. Jeez Louise this rain thing is getting old. Click here to see what the night sky would look like this week if we could maybe actually ever see it. (More on TF in the latest Phoenix in a piece about the electronic music scene.)
July 1st, 2009 at 10:22AM
If You Could See The Sky | Providence Daily Dose Says:
[...] explains the logo of the car by the same name. At any rate, the observatory did finally manage to pop the cherry on its new toy on June 17th at its First Light party, when apparently the clouds parted (although I have no memory [...]
August 11th, 2009 at 10:16PM
Look Up | Providence Daily Dose Says:
[...] Professor Britton tipped me off to this last Saturday at Club Hell — it’s Perseid Meteor Shower week! And we are hours away from the peak viewing hours. Set your alarm for 4am (Wednesday morning). According to Sky and Telescope, The Perseid meteor shower peaks late tonight and tomorrow night. Light from the nearly last-quarter Moon poses some interference. See our Perseids story for more details. [...]