Monday, January 28, 2013

Qtr 2 Observation Logs LATE

These are my observations from November to January.

November 2012:

  •  Getting easier to see the moon in the mornings
  • Still see Jupiter and Venus
  • Not many bright new stars visible
  • Still bright summer constellations visible
  • Able to identify Vega quite easily now
  • Using star track app in order to make sure that I have the right name for the stars I see
  • Getting easier to see
  • Identified the great square of Pegasus
  • Able to distinguish  clusters from one another
  • Went out to myakka with some friends and was able to see the milky way
  • Harder to see bright stars with winder approaching
  • Spent an hour at the beach with some friends and was able to clearly see many stars and name some of them
  • Summer triangle often visible, can tell the stars apart, Vega, Deneb, and Altair and then tell their constellations
December 2012:

  • Not many bright stars in the winter sky
  • Very few first magnitude stars compared to the summer sky
  • Harder to distinguish certain constellations and stars
  • Of course able to see the moon every night
  • Accurate in predicting the phase of the moon only from looking at it
  • Over Christmas break able to stay up late and look at the stars with my cousins
  • No morning sightings over break
  • More free time to gaze, no school, able to devote more time
  • Looked off balcony for a while to escape my family, with the help of the star tracker app I was able to  identify many more stars than usual
  • Overall good break, lots of star gazing
January 2013:
  • Up early again, able to see the moon and a few planets every morning
  • Not much time to stay up late like before on break
  • Have the lunar schedule down
  • On weekends able to spend more time looking up
  • Good quarter for star gazing

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