Astronomy Club

Astronomy Club is for students who:

want to know more about the universe and where we live
have or want to buy a telescope
check out the night sky through their own telescopes or school-owned ones
study / work on certain contests in the Science Olympiad (B or C) regional, state or national contests

Where and when does it meet?
    Meets on Thursdays, in room D-10, at 3:10.

How often does it meet?
    Meets once a month ( or more often as students want.)

What kind of activities does the club do?
    Each year, the group determines what they want to do during the meetings, and night-viewing events. These are some ideas students have done in the past:

Determine what sky viewing they want to do, and schedule the night viewing day and time
Create posters for the night viewing events, and send copies to each ESM district school, as well as post on website
Go to planetaria locations in Syracuse area - the MOST, and others
Attend, as members or guests, Syracuse Astronomical Society meetings or other local astronomy club, on student nights
Create a simple program for parents and elementary students, to present on EXPO night, and two other evening viewing nights during the year
Create bulletin board displays for Science wing display cabinets
Create simple telescopes from simple telescope kits ( about $ 10.00 each to pu rchase)
HAVE FUN

New things to learn - some ideas from previous students:

How to take photographs through a telescope
How to read star charts
Plot the path of a planet through the night sky
Keep tract of lunar eclipses via video tape or telescope photographs

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