Observations all along the line - Kimball & the Southern Panhandle First

Planetarium experience at KPL to prepare for safe eclipse viewing

The Kimball Public Library and the Friends of the Kimball Public Library, with funding from the Grace L. Olsen Memorial, are pleased to bring the Portable Planetarium to Kimball youth.

“This is really neat and something that Grace would have approved,” Liesch said.

The planetarium, called the Edgerton Explorit Center, comes to Kimball from the Edgerton Center in Aurora on Wednesday, May 31 with several 30-minute showings available. For youth enrolled in the KPL summer reading program, available viewing times are at 11 a.m., 11:45, 1 p.m. and 1:45.

Once inside the portable planetarium, the show...