Astronomy magazine editors will be at Pima Community Colleges East Campus Saturday for an all-day family event for amateur astronomers.

The Tucson Public Star Party runs from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. at the East Campus Observatory, 8181 E. Irvington Road.

It will feature daytime and nighttime viewing, as well as illustrated talks and displays on a variety of subjects.

The event is free and open to the public.

About 200 people attended the 2013 event, the first that the magazine had held at the East Campus, according to a news release from the college.

Members of the Tucson Amateur Astronomy Association will operate solar telescopes throughout the day, providing safe, high-quality views of visible features on the sun. Nighttime observing will begin about an hour after sunset, which is 6:04 p.m.

The campus observatory will be open throughout the event, with its solar telescope tracking the sun during the day and its 14-inch telescope targeting deep-sky objects at night. The observatory also is home to the All Sky Camera, which offers a live 360-degree view of the sky.

Attendees will be able to view the moon, Jupiter, the Pleiades star cluster and the Orion nebula.

Speakers will include Amateur Astronomy Association President Keith Schlottmann; Scott Kardel of the International Dark Sky Association; Mike Reynolds, dean of liberal arts and sciences at Florida State College at Jacksonville and a contributing editor of Astronomy; and Astronomy Editor David J. Eicher.

For more information, go to http://tinyurl.com/pimaastronomy or call 206-7694.

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Family astronomy event is Saturday at PCC East