May at the Civic Planetarium and the cultural events of the Municipality of Lecco

May at the Civic Planetarium and the cultural events of the Municipality of Lecco.

Programming continues at Lecco civic planetarium. As usual, all Friday conferences start at 21pm. Off we go Friday 5 with Laura Proserpio which will analyze and explain the details of the Juice mission, just launched towards the icy moons of Jupiter.

Double date Friday 12: the first, at 18pm, with the screening in English of “Discovering the spring sky”, in collaboration with the Wall Street school, the second at 21pm with Alberto Sesana, full professor of astrophysics at Bicocca University, who will accompany the public on the discovery of supermassive black holes.

Friday 19 will come back Davide Dal Prato, director of the Torre del Sole Astronomical Park in Brembate, who will hold the conference “Galileo, arbiter of the two worlds” comparing the Ptolemaic system and the heliocentric one in the footsteps of the "Dialogue on the two greatest systems of the world", the famous treatise by the Pisan scientist.

Among the most anticipated appointments, that of Friday 26, when the students of the Polytechnic will present their project for a mission towards Alfa Centauri, from which a book was born which will be at the center of the evening and which will be introduced by Francesco Schianchi, professor at the Polytechnic of Milano. The event was organized in collaboration with the La Semina association.

Every Sunday, at 16pm, screenings will be held in the dome and, on 6 and 20 May, the “Children's Saturday” with just one show at 16pm, instead of the usual two. May is the last month for these two types of activities, before the summer break. For more information and registration you can visit the website deepspace.it.