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Show Giant planets subject of show The giant planets Jupiter and Saturn, visible each night in the eastern sky, will be featured at the Southern Utah State College Ash-croft Ash-croft Observatory in May. The slide show-musical presentation "Giants of the Solar System" will be shown each Friday and! Saturday evening throughout the month, scheduled later than usual because of Daylight Savings Time. "Programs will begin later, at 8 and 9:30 p.m. each evening, because of the extended daylight hours," said David H. Menke, observatory director. Featured in the May program will be slides of Saturn's rings and Jupiter and its moons, many of which were taken by Voyager II. Also included will be slides of the pre-launch, lift-off and trip through space, i -taken V by the Voyager spacecraft. Musical selections for the program will include Hoist's "The Planets"; selections from "Peer Gynt Suite" and "The Sea Named Solaris", synthesized syn-thesized by TOMITA; and several selections by Vangelis including "The Unknown Man," "Sword of Orion," "Alpha" and "Heaven a and Hell." Also included will be historical highlights of astronomy, from Copernicus to Galileo, and projections on the Voyager trip to Uranus and Neptune. The Golden j Record, sent into space on the American spacecraft, will also be discussed. "Giants of the Solar System" was produced by Howard J. Simkover, associate director of the Ashcroft Observatory, who is a producer of planetarium programs at the Dow Planetarium, Montreal, , Quebec, Canada. Simkover is assistant director of Corporate Economic Studies at Bell, Canada, and a producer of programs at the National Museum of Science and Technology, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. If skies are clear, those attending observatory shows will also have a chance to view Saturn and Jupiter through observatory telescopes, Dr. Menke said. Weekend shows at the Ashcroft Observatory are free to the public. Special group showings at other times during the week can be arranged by calling Dr. Menke at 586-1409. 586-1409. These programs cost $5 per group. '"Giants of the Solar System' is a beautiful presentation," the director said. "We encourage en-courage everyone to plan to see this program." An assortment of astronomical books, star charts, postcards and optical instruments are available for purchase at the observatory, including in-cluding photographs taken by SUSC astronomy students. The Ashcroft Observatory Ob-servatory is located west of Cedar City on Utah Highway 56. Roadway signs clearly mark the way. |