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