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3/30/09
Story by Peggy Graham

JCCC presents ‘Evening with the Stars’

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. – The Johnson County Community College science department presents Evening with the Stars at 7 p.m. Saturday, April 4, in the Craig Community Auditorium, room 233 of the General Education Building. The event is free and open to the public.

Leo "Bud" Johns of the Astronomical Society of Kansas City will give a presentation on Kings and Queens; Myths and Monsters: A Tour of the Spring Sky.

Following the presentation will be a night sky observing, weather permitting, with Doug Patterson, associate professor, science, at the Paul Tebbe Observatory located on the roof of the Classroom Laboratory Building.

Some objects of note that will be viewable are:

★ The Orion Nebula
★ The Pleiades Cluster
★ The Double Cluster in Perseus
★ Saturn
★ Moon

For more information, contact either William Koch, associate professor, science, wkoch@jccc.edu, at (913) 469-8500, ext. 3725,  or Patterson, dpatter@jccc.edu, at (913) 469-8500, ext. 4268.