San Pedro is a major base for astronomers because it is dry with high elevation. So we did an astronomy tour.
They had ten telescopes set up for us to use. One was pointed at the Moon so we could take a picture with our camera.
The others weren’t set up for cameras, so we’ll be taking pictures from the internet. We tried to get as close as possible to what it looked like.
One was on Saturn.
The next one was Jupiter. We could see it’s red spot and faintly a couple of moons.
Next was the Magellanic cloud
Next was a nebula in the milky way that Matt thought looked like yeast. We don’t have the name of the nebula so we can’t find it, so you’re getting a picture of yeast.
One was on Sirius to show that when you look through a telescope at a star it pretty much looks exactly the same, because it’s so far away it stays a point of light.
One was pointed at a random part of the Milky Way so that you could see the individual stars you can’t see with your eyes. He put a laser pointer through the eye piece so you could see where it was pointing.
This is the Jewelbox cluster, with stars that look orange, blue and yellow. The colours were clearer in the telescope than in this picture. The stars also weren’t all starbursted.
This is cluster NGC 3532, which was just pretty.
