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What's Up - Week of February 18th
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News - 14th FebruaryHouse visit: 11 Shell pupils and 2 Tutors from NC came up to the Dome on the best House evening this academic year. Though the Moon was bright, the sky was clear. Mars and Uranus were in Conjunction and only 2 degrees appart and were viewed together in the Binos. Uranus some 100 time dimmer than red Mars. Uranus was then viewed at 173x in the 10 inch and showed a clear light bluey discNext House visit: Thursday 28th February (PR) GCSE Observing: All the Hundred year group, bar 2, came up to the Dome to complete one further piece of aided work. M42 was drawn in ETX and M45 in Binos. Star counts were also done in and out of the Galactic plane in the ETX. All also got to see Uranus in the 10 inch 12th FebruaryScholars visit: 13 Remove Scholars and Exhibitioners attended the Dome for an session of Q & A and briefing on the Space Tomato project (Tomatosphere). Watch https://vimeo.com/98923628 to watch the original 2014 timelapse, which was sent to the Canadaian Space AgencyPrep School visit: 8 year 7 pupils and a member of Staff from Cothill School came to the Dome. Only the Moon was visible in binos and ETX House visit: 10 Shell pupils from BH came up to the Dome. The Moon was viewwed in Binos Next House visit: Thursday 14th February (NC) 7th FebruaryExternal visit: 3 pupils from China (Beijing School No.8 and Hohhot in Inner Mongolia) came up to the Dome with a member of staff from Beijing. The sky was cloudyHouse visit: 14 Shell pupis and a tutor from MO came up to the Dome. There were breaks in the cloud, which allowed Sirius and Orion to be seen. M45 Pleiades were seen through the Binos Next House visit: Tuesday 12th February (BH) 5th FebruaryMedawar Lecture: The 4th Medawar talk was delivered by Professor Phil Charles FRAS (Emeritus at Southampton University) on 'African Astronomy on a World Stage' to some 200 pupils, Friends and members of U3A 31st JanuaryHouse visit: 10 Shell pupils from SU came up to the Dome. The snow just held off till the endNext visit: Thursday 7th February (MO) 26th JanuaryStargazing Oxford: CEB assisted in the annual Open Day. Over 200 visitors an hour, of all ages came to see the displays and exhibits on show in the Astrophysics Department. Long queues were served with hot eats. Flash talks were delivered throughout the afternoon, including CEB's on the British Astronomy and Astrophysics Olympiad23rd JanuaryPublic lecture: CEB gave the 40th Astronomy for All lecture 'Reaching young stars' at Green Templeton College in Oxford. A small audience braved the cold night to learn about the new Astronomy Olympiad venture22nd JanuaryHouse visit: 8 Shell pupils from LI came up to the Dome on a very bright clear moonlit night. The 15 day old waning Gibbous Moon and M45 wer viewed in Binos and M45 in Orion through the ETX. Though rather washed out by the Moon close by, the Eskimo planetary nebula in Gemini was viewed in the 10 inchNext House visit: Thursday 31st January (SU) GCSE Observing 5 Remove astronomers came up to the Dome and sitting in the shadow of the observatory managed to do good drawings of Orion. The also viewed the Eskimo nebula17th JanuaryHouse visit: 10 IH Shell and their Tutro came up to the Dome. Though the temperature had fallen and there was a bright waxing Moon, the sky was totally hazy and no stars could be seen. The was a nice, if faint, lunar haloNext House visit: Tuesday 22nd January (LI) 10th JanuaryHouse visit: 13 Shell pupils form MM came up to the Dome. The evening was cloudy, though a few stars appeared just as we finishedNext House visit: Thursday 17th January(IH) More news... |
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