<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/pre-go-live-resources/_migration/_dev-testing/final/westmont-news/mars-saturn-full-moon-public-viewing.html" dsn="news"><pubDate>09/14/2016</pubDate><title>Mars, Saturn, Full Moon at Public Viewing</title><excerpt>Saturn and Mars, hanging low on the southern sky, will be the focus of this month’s free public viewing of the stars Friday, Sept. 16, beginning about 7:30 p.m. and lasting several hours at the Westmont Observatory. Despite a full moon, Westmont’s Keck Telescope, a 24-inch F/8 Cassegrain reflecting instrument with Ritchey-Chretien optics, will zoom in on Mars and Saturn, which will be about 30 degrees above the horizon.</excerpt><author>Westmont</author><image>
            
            <img src="/_migrated-binaries/sites/default/files/blogs-legacy/2016/09/ObservatoryStairs-505x758.jpg" alt="Westmont Observatory overlooking Carr Field"/>
        </image><caption>Westmont Observatory overlooking Carr Field</caption><description>1 Column Content Background Color White Ali...</description></item>