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| Jupiter and Venus (below) above the GC Observatory dome. |
Thursday lab had a good session at the observatory, if a bit cold (28 F
at the end of the second session). Both the 7 and 8 PM groups had a sky
tour, including celestial sphere concepts, Jupiter and Venus in the
west, and bright stars and major constellations of the season (Ursa
Major, Orion and the Winter Oval, Pegasus and more). We used Meade
telescopes to observe Venus, Uranus (less than one degree away!), the
Orion Nebula, star clusters
M37 and
M35, and the
Andromeda Galaxy. Before the 8
PM session was over, Mars and the waning gibbous moon were rising in
the east. Both session finished with a tour of the observatory (CCD carts, research telescope, control room). We're looking forward to going out again later in the semester and hopefully using the CCD cameras to take some telescopic images. All images here by Ian Clarke with a Panasonic FZ-100.
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| From lower L to upper R: Orion, the Hyades, and the Pleiades. |
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| Uranus (L) and Venus. |
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| Mars and the moon. |
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