The University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Behlen Observatory will be open free to the public for viewing next week.
The event is scheduled to run from 7:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. on Friday.
Provided the sky is clear, visitors will be able to see several celestial objects with the observatory's 30-inch telescope and with smaller telescopes set up outside the observatory in Mead, which is in eastern Nebraska
Objects include the moon, the planet Jupiter, the Great Orion Nebula, a star cluster, and double or multiple stars. At 8 p.m. a member of the observatory staff will discuss the objects in the evening sky.
