🎥 Watch: Total Lunar Eclipse, North Museum Astronomer Answers Questions
March 13, 2025. Cole Penkunas, resident astronomer at North Museum of Nature and Science in Lancaster Pennsylvania, explains what you can expect from this week's total lunar eclipse on WGAL8. What did he have to say about the Blood Worm Moon in March, 2025?
North Museum's Planetarium has live shows every month! View the Calendar to see the next available Nigh Sky Tour.
Night Sky Tour
Night Sky Tour
Ages 4+
Join the North Museum’s Astronomy Educators to explore the wonders of the night sky in our live planetarium show, Night Sky Tour! Witness the night sky come to life as you learn about the constellations among the stars, planets currently visible, our place in the cosmos, and more! Each of our Planetarium Educators will bring their own expertise to the Night Sky Tour program, making each show a different experience.
FREE for members. $9 for non-members.
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Night Sky Tour
Night Sky Tour
Ages 4+
Join the North Museum’s Astronomy Educators to explore the wonders of the night sky in our live planetarium show, Night Sky Tour! Witness the night sky come to life as you learn about the constellations among the stars, planets currently visible, our place in the cosmos, and more! Each of our Planetarium Educators will bring their own expertise to the Night Sky Tour program, making each show a different experience.
FREE for members. $9 for non-members.
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BUY MUSEUM/PLANETARIUM COMBO
Night Sky Tour
Night Sky Tour
Ages 4+
Join the North Museum’s Astronomy Educators to explore the wonders of the night sky in our live planetarium show, Night Sky Tour! Witness the night sky come to life as you learn about the constellations among the stars, planets currently visible, our place in the cosmos, and more! Each of our Planetarium Educators will bring their own expertise to the Night Sky Tour program, making each show a different experience.
FREE for members. $9 for non-members.
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Night Sky Tour– "Follow the Drinking Gourd"
Night Sky Tour, Featuring "Follow the Drinking Gourd" Presentation
Ages 4+
Witness the night sky come to life as you learn about the constellations among the stars, planets currently visible, our place in the cosmos, and more! Featuring a discussion on how the American folk song, "Follow the Drinking Gourd" decoded the night sky map for fleeing slaves traveling the underground railroad, in this very special presentation.
About "Follow the Drinking Gourd"
The American folksong Follow the Drinking Gourd was first published in 1928. The Drinking Gourd song was supposedly used by an Underground Railroad operative to encode escape instructions and a map. These directions then enabled fleeing slaves to make their way north from Mobile, Alabama to the Ohio River and freedom. Taken at face value, the "drinking gourd" refers to the hollowed out gourd used by slaves (and other rural Americans) as a water dipper. But here it is used as a code name for the Big Dipper star formation, which points to Polaris, the Pole Star, and North. In the ensuing 80 years, the Drinking Gourd played an important role in the Civil Rights and folk revival movements of the 1950s and 1960s, and in contemporary elementary school education. Much of the Drinking Gourd's enduring appeal derives from its perceived status as a unique, historical remnant harkening back to the pre-Civil War South – no other such map songs survive.
FREE for members. $9 for non-members.
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Night Sky Tour
Night Sky Tour
Suggested for children in 5th grade to Adults
Join the North Museum’s Astronomy Educators to explore the wonders of the night sky in our live planetarium show, Night Sky Tour! Witness the night sky come to life as you learn about the constellations among the stars, planets currently visible, our place in the cosmos, and more! Each of our Planetarium Educators will bring their own expertise to the Night Sky Tour program, making each show a different experience.
Night Sky Tour
Night Sky Tour
Join the North Museum’s Astronomy Educators to explore the wonders of the night sky in our live planetarium show, Night Sky Tour!
See what’s visible in the night sky, visit other planets, explore the distant reaches of the cosmos, and catch up on the latest space news in this live planetarium adventure.
Night Sky Tour
Night Sky Tour
Join the North Museum’s Astronomy Educators to explore the wonders of the night sky in our live planetarium show, Night Sky Tour!
With Spitz’s SciDome XD projection system, audiences can travel anywhere in extreme definition. Our movie-like shows make you feel like your part of the action. Get the sensation of flying on Earth or through the universe!
Night Sky Tour
Night Sky Tour
Join the North Museum’s Astronomy Educators to explore the wonders of the night sky in our live planetarium show, Night Sky Tour!
With Spitz’s SciDome XD projection system, audiences can travel anywhere in extreme definition. Our movie-like shows make you feel like your part of the action. Get the sensation of flying on Earth or through the universe!
Night Sky Tour
Night Sky Tour
Join the North Museum’s Astronomy Educators to explore the wonders of the night sky in our live planetarium show, Night Sky Tour!