Observing
It’s 12.14 am.. I just wanna post a quick entry regarding the observing session that I attended this evening!
I was so the very jakun.. heh..
I thought there will be a lot of people.. but turned out, Esther and me were the only girls attended. And another around 5 boys. Haiya, derang tak minat hape.. I was so excited.
So, we met on the roof top at sunset (exactly maghrib time). So I went for prayer first then straight to the observing site, a bit later than others. But no one cares. This observing is optional after all. And you only need to attend it once for the whole semester. But maybe I’ll attend it again.. I wanna see the full moon.
Anyway… there are not so many things that we could see tonight. My expectation was too high. I thought we can see other stars, big like the moon like how we can see by naked eyes ( my sentences are messed up). But I was so happy and jakun nevertheless.
Basically we saw 4 main things..
1. Crux (or southern cross), ‘jewel box’ and ‘the pointers’ just below the crux:
2. Orion (the hunter) and orion nebula: [This hunter is terbalik by the way.. because we saw this from southern hemisphere.. and the nebula is the cluster of stars (or appear to look like stars) yang atas sikit dari the hunter belt (3 stars in straight line=belt). The reddish looking star yg kat bawah tuh is Betelgeuse.. merah coz its relatively old and is a dying star. And bintang biru yang kat atas (lebei kurang sama terang ngan Betelgeuse) is called Rigel… blue and very bright coz its a young star..]
3. Sirius, the brightest star we saw, and was the first start that appeared (visible) tonight. Malas nak carik gambo.. huhu.
4. and… the planet saturn!: (yerp! we could see the ring.. and yerp! it looks just like this.. yellow and looks so artificial)
This is the view from the roof top. Melbourne! Bad quality.. low light… heh.
And this is our instructor and the telescope we used.
I learnt a lot today. I asked the instructor so many questions. Jakun la katakan.. put I’m so happy I have this chance…
Hmm.. last word…
SUBHANALLAH
Wah.
*skips over the gibberish Greek astronomy language*
;P
Siriussss Black we miss you…!!! xD
Comment by Aneesah — March 13, 2007 @ 10:58 pm
Uuuuu.. Bestnye… Nak jugak..
aya kat KL skang nie.. Mama ade kat sebelah nie.. Tgk blog munah jugak..
“Best tol” kate mama.. Huhuhuuu..
(Skang tgh gune laptop baru Hasanah.. Huhuuhu..)
Comment by Aya — March 14, 2007 @ 6:26 pm
congratulation !
wahhhh…hebat u munah…
go go go- keep on writing
fight fight fight- keep on disciplining yourdays , fight your feeling sleepy or tak ada moods
win win win —-u have all the talent to be a good writer some days
makcik
Comment by makcik endoksempo — March 15, 2007 @ 7:34 am
wahhhh……
Comment by makcik endoksempo — March 15, 2007 @ 7:35 am
ni subjek apa ni?? how exciting!!!
Comment by Aliya — March 15, 2007 @ 7:57 am
Aneesah: yea! missing sirius.. hehe.. there’s also Bellatrix and andromeda.. hehe..
Aya: beli teleskop boleh tengok semua itu.. beli la kan utk munah.. pujuk abah.. hihihi..
makcik sempo: hehe.. thanks! Satria ESQ, GO GO GO!
Kak Aliya: best kan?? This if for subject “The Solar System and The Cosmos” or we all panggil Astronomy aje… observing ni di buat every tuesday night.. sape free bleh je pegi! enrol for that course or not!
Comment by Mai — March 16, 2007 @ 2:40 pm
wah, tak pernah pula tahu ada subjek astronomy kat melb uni
Comment by hafiz — March 18, 2007 @ 1:04 pm
adela.. best2! semuanya bebudak science je la yg amek.. heh.. and most yg amek agak pelik gak.. alien2 sikit.. heh
Comment by Mai — March 19, 2007 @ 4:19 am
alien2 sikit…ni mesti sebab nak cari alien
Comment by hafiz — March 19, 2007 @ 11:44 am
yo..!
mana gamba n post g sydney??
dgr citer ada org tu blk kul 5 pagi…ari isnin plak tu…
heehehe..
g klas tak arini??? =p
Comment by syida — March 19, 2007 @ 4:59 pm
thanks mai atas ingatan,harap anti tabah hati tak berbelah bagi di sana…
Comment by naz — March 20, 2007 @ 1:41 am
hafiz: heh.. sbb macam org yg pelik2 je yg minat extraterrestrial stuff like astronomy.. hehe
syida: itu di atas tu! hehe.. pegi la kelas.. itu suda mesti..
naz: thanks naz.. miss u so much, fren
Comment by Mai — March 20, 2007 @ 3:22 am