Have you ever looked up at the night sky and wondered what stars you were seeing? What constellation patterns are being made overhead? Skyscraper member Francine Jackson will introduce the skies of late autumn and winter by showing step by step how, by
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Have you ever looked up at the night sky and wondered what stars you were seeing? What constellation patterns are being made overhead?
Skyscraper member Francine Jackson will introduce the skies of late autumn and winter by showing step by step how, by beginning at the Big Dipper, to find your way through the nighttime sky using a free computer program, Stellarium, on Saturday, Dec. 16 starting at 6 p.m. at Seagrave Memorial Observatory, 47 Peeptoad Road, North Scituate.
Jackson is a member of Skyscrapers, Inc., the Amateur Astronomical Society of Rhode Island. Skyscrapers is a nonprofit organization begun in 1932 by Brown University Professor Charles Smiley. Its mission is to educate its membership and the public on all matters pertaining to astronomy.
For more information concerning the organization visit www.theskyscrapers.org.
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Justanidiot
Remember that the stars you see in the night sky are just holes in the celestial sphere that let the light of god shine in on us here on the plain of earth. Any other explanation is fake science and should be ignored.
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