Stargazing is on the menu in St. John’s this evening on this International Fall Astronomy Day.

There will be plenty of telescopes for people to peer through tonight. They will be set up on the parking lot of the Johnson GEO Centre on Signal Hill.

The past president of the society’s St. John’s branch, Garry Dymond, is happy that Mother Nature is cooperating with mainly clear skies today.

“You’ll see the Rings of Saturn which, once every 15 years, are parallel and almost disappear – they’re only 30 feet wide – and it will be another 15 years before we see them this way,” says Dymond.

As well, you can look at the moon and see Plato Crater. Sometimes the shadow on the crater is the bat symbol.

The event runs from 7-9.

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