The Universe in 45 Minutes September 18, 2007
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Ooops, long time no write – I have to get in the habit of publishing a bit more regularly seeing as this is the first post for September!
Anyway, I’m up in Kempsey in Northern NSW for Croc Festival, a two-day cultural and educational festival for Indigenous students. A colleague and I are running an activity A History of the Universe in 45 Minutes! ten times with different classes over the two days. Should make for a hectic time. Fortunately the sky has cleared so we can view the Sun with our Sunspotter but alas no sunspots at present.
An activity such as this poses some interesting questions; what would you cover in a single slot of time? We have five activities embedded in it but haven’t had a chance to test the complete activity yet so tomorrow will be a great initiation. Once we get a working version and refine it I’ll try and publish it.
Unfortunately we are not allowed to photograph within the Festival grounds but hopefully the organisers will post some up later on their site. The student concert tomorrow night should be pretty spectacular with lots of song and dance.
More travel on Friday – back across to Parkes for the Open Weekend at the Parkes Radio Telescope, The Dish. This will be well worth visitng as it is the only time the telescope is open to the Public for tours. There will be a range of talks, a community market, helicopter rides and an night time open air viewing of the film The Dish by the Dish itself on Saturday. More on this later.
