The Mediaglobe Digital Planetarium and Observatory is located in Girard, KS.

The Southeast Kansas Education Service Center now is accepting a limited number of families with children in grades K-5 for the 2010 spring programs of the Family Astronomy Club at Greenbush's Abernathy Science Education Center. Programs are free.

The 2010 schedule includes:

• January 23 at 6 p.m. - The reasons behind the changing seasons; weather permitting, families will view the sun through a solar telescope.

• February 6 at 6 p.m. - Constellations and their stories; make a star finder and practice using it in the Mediaglobe Digital Planetarium and Observatory; view the night sky, weather permitting.

• March 6 at 4 p.m. - Learn about life aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavor scheduled to lift off to the International Space Station in March; watch the movie Astronaut and taste test food.

• April 24 at 7 p.m. - Learn about the phases of the moon simulating them with lunar globes and participating in a lunar Olympics.; viewing also will be available through the PSU-Greenbush Astrophysical Observatory, weather permitting.

  To register contact Denise Richard by phoning (620) 724-6281 or by sending an e-mail here.

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