Planetarium
Mar. 4th, 2008 12:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
petmoosieOn Saturday night, we went to the planetarium at Montgomery College.
The professor in charge was giving a talk about star formation. He didn't really use the star projection system for very much, just "this slide is detail of something in Orion, which is up here". But he turned on and off the lights to good effect.
About 40 people can sit in there and still leave space for evacuation if need be. But I think we'd have to leave in a certain order, because not a lot of room was left.
He showed computer slides through an overhead projector.
Of the 40 people, about 10 were under 10. So the spirit of space exploration is alive and well in the younger generation. Emily wasn't even the youngest; there were two younger girls, about two and four years old. The professor did give a very short blurb for studying science and going into it as a career.
Afterwards, he set up both of his telescopes. The smaller one was on Saturn, and Emily and T enjoyed looking at it. But then Emily was done (and the two smaller girls were long into the their carseats and out of there).
The professor in charge was giving a talk about star formation. He didn't really use the star projection system for very much, just "this slide is detail of something in Orion, which is up here". But he turned on and off the lights to good effect.
About 40 people can sit in there and still leave space for evacuation if need be. But I think we'd have to leave in a certain order, because not a lot of room was left.
He showed computer slides through an overhead projector.
Of the 40 people, about 10 were under 10. So the spirit of space exploration is alive and well in the younger generation. Emily wasn't even the youngest; there were two younger girls, about two and four years old. The professor did give a very short blurb for studying science and going into it as a career.
Afterwards, he set up both of his telescopes. The smaller one was on Saturn, and Emily and T enjoyed looking at it. But then Emily was done (and the two smaller girls were long into the their carseats and out of there).
