The Detroit Observatory Seeing in Depth Astronomy Nights provide a more intimate and intensive experience than our regular open houses.  Registration is limited to 24 guests, which allows everyone to have more time in the dome and at the telescope, if weather permits observing.  The event is built around a particular theme which links the history of the Observatory and the University to modern astronomy and observing the heavens.

This event will focus on the Observatory’s second director, James Craig Watson — U-M’s first “celebrity scientist” and a prodigious discoverer of asteroids and, he thought, a new planet.