{"id":1304,"date":"2016-04-07T16:09:40","date_gmt":"2016-04-07T20:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mansfieldu.wpengine.com\/?p=1304"},"modified":"2016-04-08T16:06:04","modified_gmt":"2016-04-08T20:06:04","slug":"planetarium-open-house-a-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/munews.mansfield.edu\/?p=1304","title":{"rendered":"Planetarium Open House a Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MANSFIELD, PA\u2014<\/strong> More than 150 people attended an open house at Mansfield University\u2019s George Strait Planetarium in the Grant Science Center on April 1. \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mansfieldu.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Planetarium-1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1305\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1305\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/munews.mansfield.edu\/?attachment_id=1305\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/munews.mansfield.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Planetarium-1.jpg?fit=1020%2C465&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1020,465\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Planetarium 1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/munews.mansfield.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Planetarium-1.jpg?fit=1020%2C465&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1305 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mansfieldu.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Planetarium-1.jpg?resize=1020%2C465\" alt=\"Planetarium 1\" width=\"1020\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/munews.mansfield.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Planetarium-1.jpg?w=1020&amp;ssl=1 1020w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/munews.mansfield.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Planetarium-1.jpg?resize=800%2C365&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/munews.mansfield.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Planetarium-1.jpg?resize=768%2C350&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/munews.mansfield.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Planetarium-1.jpg?resize=300%2C137&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/munews.mansfield.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Planetarium-1.jpg?resize=86%2C39&amp;ssl=1 86w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/munews.mansfield.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Planetarium-1.jpg?resize=560%2C255&amp;ssl=1 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 799px) 94vw, (max-width: 1023px) 67vw, (max-width: 1365px) 62vw, 1037\" \/><\/a>Elaine Farkas, an adjunct faculty member in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mansfield.edu\/chemistry-physics\/our-department.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">Department of Chemistry and Physics<\/a>, and Tim Morey, Resource Specialist from the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, presented the free program that covered a variety of topics.<\/p>\n<p>Farkas presented the planetarium portion of the open house, which included the spring sky, the importance of Polaris in the northern hemisphere, and the reason there are seasons. A short movie highlighting the effects of light pollution was also shown.<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mansfieldu.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Planetarium-2.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1306\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1306\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/munews.mansfield.edu\/?attachment_id=1306\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/munews.mansfield.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Planetarium-2.jpg?fit=948%2C393&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"948,393\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Planetarium 2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/munews.mansfield.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Planetarium-2.jpg?fit=948%2C393&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1306 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mansfieldu.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Planetarium-2.jpg?resize=948%2C393\" alt=\"Planetarium 2\" width=\"948\" height=\"393\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/munews.mansfield.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Planetarium-2.jpg?w=948&amp;ssl=1 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/munews.mansfield.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Planetarium-2.jpg?resize=300%2C124&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/munews.mansfield.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Planetarium-2.jpg?resize=768%2C318&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/munews.mansfield.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Planetarium-2.jpg?resize=94%2C39&amp;ssl=1 94w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/munews.mansfield.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Planetarium-2.jpg?resize=560%2C232&amp;ssl=1 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 799px) 94vw, (max-width: 1023px) 67vw, (max-width: 1365px) 62vw, 1037\" \/><\/a>Morey gave a demonstration of different telescope models available for observation at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dcnr.state.pa.us\/stateparks\/findapark\/hillscreek\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hills Creek<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dcnr.state.pa.us\/stateparks\/findapark\/cherrysprings\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cherry Springs State Park<\/a> and discussed the effects of light pollution on observation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANSFIELD, PA\u2014 More than 150 people attended an open house at Mansfield University\u2019s George Strait Planetarium in the Grant Science &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/munews.mansfield.edu\/?p=1304\" class=\"more-link\"><span class=\"more-button\">Continue reading &gt;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Planetarium Open House a Success<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1305,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6V0yH-l2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1393,"url":"https:\/\/munews.mansfield.edu\/?p=1393","url_meta":{"origin":1304,"position":0},"title":"Astronomy Day to be Held Saturday","author":"Terry Day","date":"May 13, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"MANSFIELD, PA\u2014A special Astronomy Day program will be held at Mansfield University on Saturday, May 14 at 7:30 p.m. The program is free and open to the public. \u201cBringing Astronomy to the People\u201d is the Astronomy Day theme. 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