Space-bound package deal at the Franklin Institute

Posted on | November 2, 2007 | Comments Off

I might have to find a babysitter on November 8.

The Franklin Institute’s Bloom Observatory has two more events in store before the end of the year, Nov. 8 and Dec. 13.

Next week’s event, however, might be the better deal of the two nights. According to their press release:

Located on the roof of The Franklin Institute, the newly refurbished Joel N. Bloom Observatory is equipped with a giant 10” Zeiss Refractor telescope and four 8” Meade Reflectors. Chief Astronomer Derrick Pitts will be on hand from 7:30-11:00PM to help guide you through the galaxies. New this month, $5.00 admission includes entrance to the popular Space Command exhibit, as well as a screening of the explosive new show in the Fels Planetarium, Cosmic Collisions, where viewers experience the fiery meteorite impact that ended the Age of the Dinosaurs. For $3.00 more, check out a screening of Space Station inside the Tuttleman IMAX Theater, where astronauts from Kennedy Space Station and cosmonauts from Russia’s Baiknour Cosmodrome blast off on their way to the International Space Station, 220 miles above Earth.

If my math holds, that’s $8 bucks for the astronomagnification, exhibit, planetarium show and IMAX flick. A double sawbuck will get you a night on the town — on top of dinner, parking and babysitter, of course.

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