Me, Middle Daughter, and Youngest Daughter went to the Christa McAuliffe Planetarium last night. My instructor made it a mandatory night and I'm glad we went. He was the presenter for the planetarium part of the show and then Dr. Brian Marsden, an astronomer at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, MA gave a talk.
He talked about the recent decision by the International Astronomical Union to designate Pluto as a dwarf planet rather than a celestial planet like Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. At first it seemed sort of dry but then he ended up saying things that were pretty funny and entertaining.
After that was all done we were going outside to observe the night sky. A bunch of amateur astronomers had brought their telescopes but by the time we got outside it had gotten foggy/misty and the night sky was pretty hard to see other than the Moon. The moon was bright because it was full and then it reflected off the mist like headlights in fog and made it impossible to see anything else.
We still had a lot of fun and I was glad the daughters spent the evening with me.
Posted by bbarton at October 7, 2006 05:27 PMAww. Nice you do things with her.
Posted by: purring on October 11, 2006 10:53 AMKaty - It was an awesome time for sure! I agree, the whole subject is fascinating.
Purring - Me and the princesses have a lot of fun together!
Posted by: Bob on October 14, 2006 03:56 PM
I have never neem to a planitarium. I would love to go. i find astronomy fascinating.
Posted by: Katy on October 10, 2006 08:20 PM