What's Coming Up in the Spring & Summer Skies?

Wednesday, February 5, 2025

12:00 - 1:00 p.m.

Zoom

The night skies in Spring and Summer 2025 offer great opportunities for stargazing. Join Adler Planetarium's Michelle Nichols as we cover what to expect with our Sun and in the night sky that your patrons might ask about. If your library has a telescope for patron checkout and/or a telescope that you use in your own programs, this is a session you won't want to miss!

All ILA Noon Network webinars are free. The webinar recordings are available to ILA personal members shortly after the webinars. Registration for all live webinars is limited to Illinois libraries.

About the Speaker

Michelle Nichols is the Director of Public Observing at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago, IL, and has worked at the Adler for 27 years. She earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics and Astronomy from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a Master of Education degree in Curriculum and Instruction from National-Louis University.

Ms. Nichols leads all of the Adler Planetarium's telescope, observatory, and public sky observing initiatives and events. Since 1999, Michelle has been a popular speaker, giving hundreds of presentations to more than 130 public libraries, community organizations, and senior living facilities in the Chicago suburbs, Indiana, and Alabama.

What's Coming Up in the Spring & Summer Skies?