Our Visit to the Observatory

On Wedensday the 18th of June the Senior Syndicate of Vardon School travelled to the Hamilton Observatory to have a hands on session with Space Dave.

What we enjoyed...

Seeing the rings glow on Saturn in the beautiful night sky

Space Dave’s computer technology

Using the telescope

Checking out the website where there is life forms seti@home

Stellarium website

Milky way spiral lines
Discussing and learning about the galaxies
The adronomer galaxy

What did we learn...

You don’t age as fast in space compared to people on earth if you are travelling fast enough

In approx 5 billion years we will need to move to another solar system due to the sun dyeing

Light years are a distance not a time

A shooting star can only stay in the sky for a short period of time and a comet will stay in the sky for weeks even a month
That betlegeuse is living its last billion years