Website Last Edited November 18th, 2008: Under News area, links added featuring dramatic images of Sun, and new HST image of planet orbiting star Fomalhaut. Several revisions and new URLs added under Online Resources area including URL to really nice applet about Gravity and Orbits. We've revised most of the pages on website over past week, browse around!
NSTA Conference in Portland, Nov. 20-21-22! See us at the Share-a-thon, Friday, 230-430 PM in Ballroom 201.
News about Outreach Programs, Analog Moon Computer device, new International Project, how to visit Pine Mountain Observatory, and other noteworthy Oregon Astronomy sites. Planets continue their "dance" in SW post sunset sky. Watch Venus climb out of the sunset and head toward Jupiter.
Time to get a Sun-Stake project going (use a pole to measure altitude and changes of position in Sun over time by marking the shadow tip of pole on ground or wall - make some predictions).
The "What time is it, Where's the Sun?" international sky education program, with our collaborating school in Japan, is getting underway. Your school is welcome to join us, email me for details!
Time to schedule an outreach visit to your classroom.
Click here for details about our CLASSROOM OUTREACH and OBSERVATORY VISIT programs. To schedule outreach/visits and if you have questions, please go to the contact link. Quick info: OUTREACH: Rick Kang at rkang@efn.org or 541-683-1381, Eugene. VISITING PINE MOUNTAIN OBSERVATORY: Mark Dunaway at markpmo@oregon.uoregon.edu, 541-382-8331, Bend. We are looking forward to hearing from you.
The Friends of Pine Mountain citizens' support group was established in 1978. Since 1990, with the advent of UO Professor of Physics Greg Bothun's Electronic Universe concept, we provide outstanding classroom and on-site Observatory outreach, plus staff development activities about astronomy and astrophysics to schools throughout Oregon and beyond. We reach about 100 schools and visit over 200 classrooms each school year. We'd be delighted to visitYOUR school!
