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| Dang stickers stuck in the ball... not fun when you catch a football and it's covered in goathead stickers! | ||
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| After a dinner of lasagna, garlic bread, corn, beans and other stuff... we're off to UCO Selman Living Lab... | there we will meet up with the astronomy group who will show us the transit of Venus and the night sky. | But it's pretty cloudy and don't think we'll see anything.... |
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| But then in the last few minutes before sunset, there is a break in the clouds!! | That dot in the lower left is Venus passing by the sun! (see the sunspots in the other parts of the sun?) | |
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| Everyone gathered around 2 of the special solar scopes to see it. | Here is a picture from one of the group | More wildlife! A tarantula spider. |
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| Another mountain boomer! | Then it clouded up again and we waited around for the sky to clear again.... | It would be clear for a minute and then back to clouds... fustrating!! |
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| So we talked with each other ... | or some of the sky watchers there! | Still neat to look in these scopes! |
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| Another picture of the transit taken earlier in the day by these people. | Then we moved into the classroom as night began to fall. Hopefully while we are in here the sky will clear so we can see the stars. | |
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| Bobbette gave us a class of constelations and we made star wheels to know what our night sky would look like. | We got to do an example outside on how far Earth would from the sun if the earth were a marble... the sun was very far away... about 100 feet! | Bobette showing us the difference between an evening star and a morning star. |
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| It was still cloudy at 10 p.m. so we went back to camp without seeing the stars... sigh... | ||
