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# SMC out of this world
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/smc-out-of-this-world/
- Published: 2004-06-29T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T04:39:40.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Education, Santa Monica, #archive-import

*By Daily Press staff*

To get a ringside seat while viewing Saturn, you need not look further than Santa Monica’s community college.

“Ringside at Saturn” will be the feature show July 2, 9, 16 and 23 at Santa Monica College’s Friday night astronomy series. The show will examine the latest news about Saturn and look at Cassini, the largest and most complex interplanetary probe ever launched, as it arrives at Saturn to begin its exploration mission.

The guest lecture in May will be “JIMO, the Next New Thing.” Guest lecturer David Lehman of the Jet Propulsion Lab-NASA will describe the plans for a robot to explore Jupiter’s icy moons. The guest lecture will be held July 30.

The feature show and guest lecture are at 8 p.m. Each is preceded by “The Night Sky Show,” which re-creates the night sky and provides the latest information on space exploration at 7 p.m.

The astronomy shows are held in the John Drescher Planetarium, which features the state-of-the-art Digistar projection system. It is located on the second floor of Drescher Hall, 1900 Pico Blvd. The guest lectures are in science lecture hall 140.

Tickets are $5 each or $9 for the “double bill,” with discounts for children and senior citizens. For information, call (310) 434-4223 or (310) 434-3000.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on June 29, 2004.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/062904.pdf?ref=smdp.com)