Re: Girl Scout Astronomy Badge

On 31 Jul 2005 18:33:59 -0700, "canopus56" <canopus56@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>The analogous merit badge at the girl scouts is for a different age
>group - the Junior Girl Scouts ages 8-11 and is titled "Sky Search".

Yes, the requirements I gave are for the Junior Girl Scouts Sky Search
Badge, from the current printing of the Junior Girl Scout Badge Book.


>>>From one outstanding web based program at the Alder Planetarium of
>Chicago, Ill., one can infer that the requirements are similar -
>http://hou.lbl.gov/~vhoette/GirlScouts/actaquay.html
>http://hou.lbl.gov/~vhoette/GirlScouts/

Thanks. They will be doing an overnight at my observatory next week. We
will deal with the basic requirements, but will go considerably beyond
them.


>> At the bottom of this page of requirements are three images- one of
>> which is horribly wrong: http://www.cloudbait.com/misc/gscoutastro.jpg
>
>You mean the terminator rising south to north instead of east to west?
>LOL!

No, I mean that the image doesn't show moon phases at all, but a lunar
eclipse. I call that a glaring mistake- you can't possibly get phases
that look like what the picture shows.

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Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
http://www.cloudbait.com
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