Stars are cold, very cold. Or rather, stargazing at the top of a mountain without jackets is cold. However there is a warmer side to stargazing- looking at stars (and planets and galaxies and nebulas).
Some things we saw:
- A fuzzy red dot = Mars
- A Saturn that looks like Saturn – complete with coloured rings, and shadows, and perfection!
- Two fuzzy stars together = binary star (or bad eyesight and bad focus)
- Alpha Centauri
- The Milky Way
- Another galaxy
- A triangle star constellation
- A dog star constellation (I still argue it’s three lines)
- Free tea
- Airplane star (moving quickly and blinking)
- Shooting star x 2
- Single star constellation
- Dot shaped constellation
- Single point shaped constellation
- The lone star
All in all, it was a fun night out. Yay!!
(I promise the next entry will not have dot points. We are just so unimaginative, us science people)
constance blythe said,
April 5, 2008 @ 1:03 pm
You were lucky to be able to see so much the night skies here are always lit up with the glow from the street lights etc and you can’t see so well.