Astro 113 Spring 1999 Photo Gallery

Astronomers are hardy souls, bearing cold and late nights to pursue our pictures. But you seldom hear of the other frustration: cloudy nights. The 13 stout-hearted students of Spring 1999's Astro 113 class here at Carleton College can tell you about clouds, however. We had class eleven nights and four of them were clear.

That didn't stop the class, however. They learned a great deal about pulsars, galaxies and planets from computer labs. But they agreed: they wanted to work on the telescopes. Finally, the weather cleared. The class leapt at the chance and we dashed outside to our pad complete with concrete piers for mounting telescopes, power and ethernet. Quick studies they students learned to use the telescopes and cameras in almost record time. So despite the clouds and rain and frustration, their perseverance paid off and they present to you, Gentle Reader, their pictures.

                                                                                                                                                                                                            -John Weiss, Lab Asst.

Amanda Kirchner and Jennifer Rosenbaum

These are some of the pictures that we took while observing for Observational Astronomy. These were taken by Jennifer Rosenbaum and Amanda Kirchner using a 8" Mead LX-200 telescope with CCD camera. High points of observing: "You get to take really cool pictures!" The down points: "All the mosquitoes and dew!"

[M13]

M13

[Another M13]

Another M13

[The Ring Nebula]

The Ring Nebula in Lyra

Erica Richardson and Erika Pearson

Despite some pretty serious problems, like having the camera fall out of the telescope (ack!), Erica and Erika (and Henry on the third picture) managed to get these pics:

[Albireo]

Albireo

[Ring Nebula]

Ring Nebula

["The

M51 - The Whirlpool Galaxy

Gabe Ellwein and John Gingrinch

[Ring Nebula]

M57, The Ring Nebula

[M57]

Another Ring Nebula Pic

Noel Henderson-James and Henry Duwe

[Sombrero]

M104, The Sombrero Galaxy

[M101]

The Spiral M101

Matt McCall and Paul Riedner

[Globular Cluster]

Globular Cluster

[tds2]

Earth's Moon

[tds3]

Earth's Moon

[Moon 2]

The Moon

[Moon 3]

More Moon

[Moon 4]

More...

[Moon 5]

The Moon

[The Dark Side]

The Moon

[Moon G]

The Moon was nice that night

Who We Are:

The Prof
Joel Weisberg
Take Astro!

The Class:

Wes Bramhall
Larua Cleavland
Henry Duwe
Gabe Ellwein
John Gingrinch
Noel Henderson-James
Amanda Kirchner
Matt McCall
Erika Pearson
Erica Richardson
Paul Riedner
Jennifer Rosenbaum

Michael Stewart
Blank Line

The Lab Assistants
Ryan Hennessy Kristen Portle John Weiss

Classes and imagine were done at Goodsell Observatory, Carleton College

John Weiss
Last modified: Tue Jun 8 20:31:09 CDT 1999
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