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- This was a big star party night. A star party is a any telescope viewing event.
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- Learning to use a telescope is so cool!
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- Look! We made our own Saturns to take home!
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- Making Saturn.
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- Enjoying a space book during our discussion on planets.
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- Mt. Airy’s first star party – we saw the 2015 total lunar eclipse!
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- These were multiple images of the moon during the 2015 lunar eclipse.
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- Talkin about what we are going to see in the telescope next.
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- The Pleiades.
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- Grownups and kids love to learn to use the telescopes!
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- M15 – A globular cluster.
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- We learn to keep a viewing log to remember what we see.
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- The Owl Cluster,
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- We wear red glow necklaces to help us stay safe in the dark.
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- How does an eclipse happen?
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- Figuring out how eclipses work.
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- Exploring Ms. Liz’ very cool meteorite collection.
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- Using the school microscope to check out the micrometeorites we collected.
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- See the silver ball? That’s a micrometeorite we collected at the school, seen through our microscope!
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- Searching for sunspots with a projected image.
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- Do you see a sunspot?
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- A sunspot drawing made by a student and labeled by the teacher.
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- It was make a crater night!
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- Playing with craters is fun! See the regolith we made splashing up with the impact?!
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- What shaped object did you choose to make your crater?
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- Making predictions about crater shapes.
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- Square block, round crater. Hmmm.
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- He made his own periscope at home!
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- Exploring lenses and mirrors on a cloudy night when we could not use the telescopes.
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- Does the shape of the lens matter?
