Moon Movie Fest & a Show (Perseids Meteor Shower)

Event Date: 
Saturday, August 10, 2019 to Sunday, August 11, 2019
Event Time: 
9:00pm - 1:00am
Event Webpage: 
Skywatching Programs
Event Description: 

This will be our first ever movie night in Observatory Park. Based on a true story, The Dish takes a comical & fictionalized look at the 1969 space mission that marked mankind’s first steps on the moon and why NASA relied on a radio telescope in the middle of an Australian sheep farm to bring the images back to Earth. It was the top grossing Australian film in the year 2000. Rated PG-13 (brief strong language, social drinking & smoking).

Stay for a viewing of the Perseid's Meteor Shower. While this isn’t the peak, there should still be plenty of shooting stars to see.

PARKING: Parking at the St Martin’s field at Rt 355 and DeSellum Avenue.

Event Type: 
Educational
Telescope Viewing
Open to the General Public?: 
Yes
Topic: 
Apollo 50th Anniversaries,  Astronomy,  Earth's Moon
Mission: 
Apollo 11,  Apollo Program
Event Location: 

Observatory Park

10 DeSellum Avenue
Gaithersburg, Maryland 20877
United States
Additional Comments: 
Some of the Gaithersburg Community Museum's skywatching and educational programs are supported by The Explore Science: Earth & Space project. The Explore Science: Earth & Space 2019 toolkit is developed and distributed by the National Informal STEM Education Network (NISE Network). www.nisenet.org. This material is based on work supported by NASA under cooperative agreement award numbers NNX16AC67A and 80NSSC18M0061. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the view of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).