NOTE: We ask that all field trip participants abide by BCAS Field Trip Etiquette.

Registration required. RSVP to trip leader to reserve your spot, receive updates, and be notified of the one night chosen for the program.

Trip Leader: Dave Sutherland, dsutherland4747@gmail.com https://www.davesutherland.co/

NOTE: This program will be offered JUST ONCE on the night with the best weather forecast. Registered participants will get email updates about the night selected. 

• Friday December 27,   6 - 8 pm   OR

• Saturday December 28   6 - 8 pm   OR

• Sunday December 29  6 - 8 pm 

Join Naturalist Dave Sutherland for a free trip through the Solar System. This December, a lucky lineup lets us view 7 of 8 planets in a single evening! Bring your holiday visitors along to dance with giant Jupiter’s moons, rejoice with Saturn’s rings, visit Venus (the Earth’s infernal twin) and marvel at the distant blue-green worlds of Uranus and Neptune. If you stay late, you can glimpse the polar ice caps on Mars. Note: we will not need telescopes to see the Earth. Jaw-dropping galaxies, star clusters, and nebulae added at no extra charge! It may be chilly, so definitely dress for the cold. 

Where to meet: Meet at the Joder Ranch Trailhead, three miles north of Boulder. Area info and directions here.