STAR PARTY

The Arroyo Del Oso Elementary school was having a very special
night on March 28,  2012.  They were having a Star Party.  Included in
the party were some very large telescopes for everyone to view the
moon, Jupiter, Venus and Mars which were very visible on this night.
The moon, Jupiter and Venus were in the west,  Mars was the red star
in the east.

Orion looking at Venus or Jupiter in the west

You can move the telescope and right now,

Venus and Jupiter are near each other.

This one is looking at the moon.

There is a place where two people can view.

This is so the instructor of the telescope

can see what you see.  That way,

if the lens gets moved, she can

put it back into place.

The moon as seen throught the telescope.

The moon seen by Ma's camera,

with Venus below.

(Jupiter is also below, but

it is hard to see in the photo.)

This telescope is looking at Mars in the east.

There were activities in the forth grade classrooms as well.

There were some craft projects etc, but

Orion wanted to go hear this teacher

talk about the solor system.

Some of the things he explained about

were about soil of the earth in comparison

to the moon or planets.

We were able to see a live Planetarium

First you crawl into the tunnel, and

then everyone sits on the floor.

All the lights go off, and there is a

lantern that shows little dots all over the ceiling.

These are the stars in the night time sky.

The instructor told us where all the

constellations were, as well as the planets.

Here is a spring time diagram of some

of the things that were mentioned.