at SB150 dot-com activity website announcement pages:
Celebrating the night, members of Michiana Astronomical Society Inc. will set up telescopes on the Jefferson Street bridge for visitors to observe a few celestial highlights (http://www.nightwise.org/#!Preview-of-the-May-Sky/c17jj/54dc33de0cf2a105...). In the western twilight is a lovely alignment of Jupiter, a thin crescent moon, and Venus, while Saturn is emerging in the southeast. To the north, try to find the star Eltanin in Draco the Dragon, whose light left the star 150 years ago and is just now reaching South Bend. The first 150 visitors can make-and-take a star finder with Eltanin, South Bend's birthday star. Weather permitting, a team from SB150 Young Astronomers will be remotely controlling a 41-inch telescope at Yerkes Observatory to capture live images of deep space objects in the night sky - a time stamp commemorating South Bend's First Midnight of May 22, 1865.
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