Here's the recipe.
Decorating our walking sticks
Liza decorates hers with markers.
Ben carves his name into his stick.
Maya paints hers.
Lexi wraps hers with para cord.
Elianna nails tacks into hers at 1 foot intervals.
Orienteering with Nancy the Girl Scout leader extraordinaire
Practicing our strides to equal a "pace."
Orienting to follow a course. Holden's course led you to a dead bird. Thanks Holden!!
Campers make breakfast
Well we avoided the 95 degree heat and plunged ourselves into the frigid air of air conditioned basement. A good night sleep after the late night of viewing stars.
Cat cuddling helps.
The big telescope
Inside the main observatory we got to see the 26 inch telescope and consulted a star map to Focus in on a globular cluster that took 38000 years for light to get here.
Inside a telescope
Telescopes can use many different means to capture many different kinds of light such as X-Rays, infrared, and microwaves. For visible light astronomers often use mirrors. Here Lexi is looking into the parabolic mirror of a telescope.
Bob Starcher director of the NJ Astronomical Association shows us some telescopes
The NJ Astronomical Association
After some cooling ice cream (from which Bennet's tongue turned blue) we went to the observatory for a private tour of the stars! Here the camper campers pose in front of the Buzz Aldrin center, named after Jersey's own astronaut.
Here is an outtake
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