For long time I was not aware of the 16inch telescope located at the roof top of the Earth Science Department @ SUNY Albany.
This year I am doing Teaching assistant ship job for Prof. Knuth's Star Systems class. (http://knuthlab.rit.albany.edu/courses/F09/StarSystems/)
Today provided very nice opportunity to invite students for stargazing through twitter and Phil's Black Board page. It was dark enough by 7 PM. The night sky was very very clear. We did some observations including Moon and Jupiter.
Here are some pics taken by my Mobile.
Please note that I could get only some portion in the field of view. Let me tell you:
It was amazing
Got a blurred version captured. You can see three of the Jupiter's Moons.
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![The Moon](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_u6ZKgGBGbsSj7VgLmrWPg8hDp5Ma-nYiyD4T6E-q0y9raVw26OpSCvVLyxlv_fWdsNW0YGi2Thl-48cuoBX_3edd3oe3sPedWKv7UJ9Sn9tWt5s55NwtMnlOm-7grLJoks71tD4iXbahVfQPvSoyoij4fO_t0KTgSyggBiEdMxIQEU-VFERdIGXbGUYen-dSCPwSZ8cpTEkgp2Ik_Qe-uiFyDp2X121w=s0-d)
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http://www.atmos.albany.edu/mars/telescope-2.html
This year I am doing Teaching assistant ship job for Prof. Knuth's Star Systems class. (http://knuthlab.rit.albany.edu/courses/F09/StarSystems/)
Today provided very nice opportunity to invite students for stargazing through twitter and Phil's Black Board page. It was dark enough by 7 PM. The night sky was very very clear. We did some observations including Moon and Jupiter.
Here are some pics taken by my Mobile.
Please note that I could get only some portion in the field of view. Let me tell you:
It was amazing
http://www.atmos.albany.edu/mars/telescope-2.html