Review of observing
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Swirling cloud activity
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Watch the pepper after swirling the water
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Can you see it clump?
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NASA's Planetary Posse music video
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Dr. Meyer directs the "dust" particles
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Some of them attract each other and form chondrules and meteroroids
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....and eventually an asteroid.
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Concert maps and science standards
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Dr. Jim Fowler provides a tour of the Hobby-Eberly Telescope after lunch.
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The 91 mirrors are 1-m each.
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Dr. Fowler describes the spectrum
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The tracker is the size of a school bus.
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The back of the telescope. Mirrors tip, tilt, and piston.
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It's hard to get it all in one photo.
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Jamison drives the HET.
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The control room
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Dr. Matt Shetrone descibes his observation of M100, a galaxy.
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There is a supernova in this spiral galaxy.
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Group photo at the HET
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Making spectroscopes
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A camera plus a diffraction grating equals colors
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All assembled
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Dr. Meyer demonstrates continuous, emission, and absorption spectra.
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Introductions to Dr. Sally Dodson-Robinson
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Dr. Dodson-Robinson described research on extra-solar planets.
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including transits ...
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...and direct imaging.
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Dark Skies - Dr. Meyer shows good versus bad lighting
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Dinner at the Astronomer Lodge
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