Norman Lockyer
Time to dust off the blog, I have been meaning to do this for ages. It just needed something sufficiently interesting for me to write about. Saturday it happened. I visited the Norman Lockyer Observatory for an introduction to astronomy.
What a fantastic day. It started with a viewing in the planetarium and continued with an introduction to star maps. We continued with a look at the sun and the moon and a description of the planets. This was followed by a look at nebulae and galaxies. The final theory for the day was a look at telescopes and lenses. This initially seemed rather too reminiscent of A level physics for my liking but with a major difference it was interesting.
Finally we went on a tour of the historic telescopes including the instrument completed in 1871 that had a spectrometer attached and was used in the discovery of helium. It is amazing that it is now used alot by the junor section.
What a fantastic day. It started with a viewing in the planetarium and continued with an introduction to star maps. We continued with a look at the sun and the moon and a description of the planets. This was followed by a look at nebulae and galaxies. The final theory for the day was a look at telescopes and lenses. This initially seemed rather too reminiscent of A level physics for my liking but with a major difference it was interesting.
Finally we went on a tour of the historic telescopes including the instrument completed in 1871 that had a spectrometer attached and was used in the discovery of helium. It is amazing that it is now used alot by the junor section.
posted by Grahame at
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1 Comments:
It is really interesting there isn't it? I went on a trip there when I was at Uni with Phys Soc.
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Katie, at 8:52 pm
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