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MIDWEST Space Fest MIDWEST Space Fest

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    Carolyn McKellar
    Magnetic North Nonprofit LLC
    Innwood Circle, Interlochen, MI 49643
    phone: 231.714.4925

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    midwest space fest, space festival, traverse city festivals, michigan festivals, astronomy festival, star party,alex filippenko, ian cheney, the city dark, international dark sky park, the headlands, mary stewart adams, jerry dobek, bob moler, ephemeris, grand traverse astronomical society, nomac, celestron, stargazing, astronomer,

  • › Registration costs

    $50 package cost for 3 ticketed events or Individual Adult and Student tickets

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Oct.
04
2013
Oct.
05
2013

Outreach event
United States
Traverse City, Michigan

Explore your Outer Space at the MIDWEST Space Fest in beautiful downtown Traverse City, Michigan. Only 25 driving miles to "The Most Beautiful Place in America," (ABC-TV's Good Morning America viewers), Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore.
FRI - EMMY-nominated science documentary: "The City Dark: A Search for Night on a Planet that Never Sleeps" will be shown at the historic, restored State Theatre.
FRI - Launch Party with our presenters and keynote speaker Dr. Alex Filippenko, University of California-Berkeley researcher and professor and a National Academy of Sciences member.
SAT - Midday presentation by Dr. Filippenko: "Dark Energy and the Runaway Universe"
SAT - Free solar viewing and stargazing at our waterfront park, the Open Space, on West Grand Traverse Bay, Lake Michigan. Astronomers and storytellers will share their knowledge of our amazing northern Michigan skies.
SAT - Free indoor/outdoor exhibits from National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, Mich. State University Science Theater, Astronomy.FM, The Headlands International Dark Sky Park, Outdoor Lighting Forum, NASA and others.
FRI & SAT - Galactic Glass storefront window dressing participants
SAT - Silent Auction of Celestron telescope
Tickets are on sale now via our website.