Dr. Keely Finkelstein welcomes everyone to the workshop.
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Lola Grundy, Charles Biggess, and Sheila Jones think about scientific models
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Sara Hemenway, Eric Friedneson, and Sapna Duchesne take notes
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Christine Beltran and John Kubala have great ideas to add
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Peter Guastella leads the activity.
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Deirdra Dufault, Steve Biles, and Terri Large model accretion with pepper in water.
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Dr. Hemenway questions Alice Kinard, John Farmer, and Robin Sissell about their results.
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Planetary Formation cards -- now how should we sort these?
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Sara and Eric examine wobble from exoplanets.
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John looks at the transit that Alice makes.
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Cutting out a Kepler star wheel.
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That looks right.
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Let's have a lesson on how to use these.
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StarDate magazine has great centerfolds each month.
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Look at all these stars.
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This is either exercise time or how to hold a star chart.
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Concept maps - making connections
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Visiting the Harlan J Smith 2.7-m telescope
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Astronomer Mike Endl describes his research
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View of the Frank N Bash Visitor Center from the 2.7-m catwalk
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From the 2.7-m, the Otto Struve 2.1-m dome is easily seen.
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The Astronomer's Lodge is our temporary home.
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VIsiting the aluminizing chamber.
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sunset
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Playing with lenses. Does this magnify?
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We can make an image with a lens.
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DIfferent lenses focus at different image distances; we can measure that.
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Galileoscope kits- we are going to build our own telescopes.
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Look at all the parts.
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Sometimes it takes more than two hands.
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