Star Gazing

As a requirement of SES course, we need to go to school to investigate about stars and moon using telescopes on September 27, 2012. Our teacher, Mr.Chung invited a few awesome astronomers to school and help us to actually see the planets and moon. There were around five telescopes set up for our class to enjoy. Most of them were focusing on the moon. And with the telescopes that night we were able to see the craters on moon!

We also took many pictures of the night sky, especially the moon, because it is the brightest and clearest object we can see. It is really amazing and interesting to actually use telescopes to observe the moon and the night sky. 

According to astronomers, the telescopes had GPS embedded in them which allowed pinpointing of their position on the globe which helps in adjusting the reference planes and maps of the sky according to these coordinates. Also, one of the astronomers was explaining the story of Andromeda to me while he had a powerful laser that could trace each constellation for me to see, after that he gave me his tumblr so I could read up on his articles!

This really was an amazing and memorable night to me!