Sunday, January 15, 2012

Public Star Party 1 for all ages

Jan 14th 2012, we made our first approach to share our hobby about astronomy with others. The respond was astonishing. All ages of people gathered at Bt Kawan Stadium park to take a first look of celestial objects. Here are the updates:

                                                  Pointing to stars and planets

A drawing about solar system for pupils

Veerayen and his excellent method of telescope setup 

Some scope handling precaution for the users 

The children get their first experience ever viewing celestial object from a telescope. They were looking at Jupiter

Realigned the scope for the object back to FOV while curious adults waiting for their turn :-)

They had the first look on the Jupiter and just cant stop watching it...

Veerayen showed and explained his collection of planets, moon and more

He certainly caught the crowd attention

Not to miss the adults and elderly :-)

Events end before midnight. We've got a positive feedback and the group asked for more. :-)


- Jivagaran V.