Kopernik Observatory & Science Center

On Halloween weekend, Kopernik transforms to offer spooky tours and extraterrestrial treats. We invite you to don your costume and trick-or-treat through our decorated classrooms and observatory. Visit each of our ghoulish educators to participate in chilling science experiments and thrilling demonstrations. Peer into the eerie mysteries of the cosmos in our Spooky Universe planetarium show. If favorable weather prevails, look through our telescopes to see alien worlds and a ghostly full Moon. *This is a fundraising event and all participants, 4 years and older, must pay an admission fee.

• October 25th, 6:00PM - 7:15PM
• October 25th, 7:30PM - 8:45PM
• October 26th, 6:00PM - 7:15PM
• October 26th, 7:30PM - 8:45PM

On Halloween weekend, Kopernik transforms to offer spooky tours and extraterrestrial treats. We invite you to don your costume and trick-or-treat through our decorated classrooms and observatory. Visit each of our ghoulish educators to participate in chilling science experiments and thrilling demonstrations. Peer into the eerie mysteries of the cosmos in our Spooky Universe planetarium show. If favorable weather prevails, look through our telescopes to see alien worlds and a ghostly full Moon. *This is a fundraising event and all participants, 4 years and older, must pay an admission fee.

• October 25th, 6:00PM - 7:15PM
• October 25th, 7:30PM - 8:45PM
• October 26th, 6:00PM - 7:15PM
• October 26th, 7:30PM - 8:45PM

We are up to 32 tornadoes confirmed in NY now for 2024, which is a record (previous record: 25 and annual average: 9 or 10). There is more-than-usual interest in how we confirm tornadoes

You can watch the livestream of the program here.

he keeping of time has its roots in both astronomy and mythology. Hear the telling of ancient myths about the Aesir, the Gods of the Norse, including Odin, Loki and Thor. Learn how these stories are connected to the sky and learn the origins of the times we call the year, month, week, day, hour, minute and second.

You can watch the livestream of the program here.

With the CRISPR gene editing technology, we now have the power to edit & modify genes in human DNA and control human evolution. Is this the start of Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World”? Only a few years ago, in China, using CRISPR, edited human reproductive genes and created the birth of twins that were immune to HIV/AIDS (including all their future offspring). This violated international medical ethics. If CRISPR is used on NON-reproductive cells such as blood cells, heredity & evolution are not affected, for example, it could cure Sickle cell anemia.
 
You can watch the livestream of the program here.