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Amazing Astronomy!
July 15, 2019 @ 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Date: July 15 – 19
Mornings 9:00AM – 12:00PM plus one Evening Star Party
Teacher: Larry Brookhart
Students entering grades 4 – 7
Cost $200 / Session (or $175 / Session for CMMC Members)
Search the skies and learn how to navigate and locate the many cosmic wonders above us! Students will have the opportunity to operate powerful optical instruments that will deliver exhilarating views of the heavens! Be a part of our astro-crew and discover the workings of a real observatory- the computer controlled telescopes, sky-mapping software, networking with other observatories around the globe and viewing videos sent to us from the international space station.
Students will engage in astronomical games, make handy astronomer’s tools and use specialized equipment to examine sun spots. We will even have an evening Star Party where you will take a ride to the cosmos on a journey you’ll never forget! Not to be outdone by the stars, we also have a Solar Scope! The double- stacked arrangement of the lens elements of this scope allows for viewing the solar landscape through different wavelengths of light. Certain solar features are only visible within narrow bands of the light spectrum, and this scope has that capability. Close-up views of the solar surface reveal a highly-detailed, active, violent environment scarred with agitated strong magnetic fields, tornadic “windstorms”, nuclear explosions and massive collisions between plasma and particle materials at vastly different temperatures.
All this on an exponential scale not found on our Earth. This device safely opens the door to solar viewing and will allow the students to explore, observe, record and analyze the characteristics and events of solar mass ejections, solar storms, sunspot activity and the changing dynamics of extreme forces interacting on the sun’s surface and its atmosphere. Note: The evening Star Party will be held at the Harwich Observatory behind Harwich Elementary School.
