Ishaan really likes talking about stars and planets and when I tell him something new he really catches it fast. We tried to explain him about directions and he did not remember them, but recently when I told him about the pole star and showed it to him a couple of times, now he remembers where the pole star is and says thats the north direction, he then turns around and says thats south.
He talks a lot about planets, remember all 9 planets and his favorite is Saturn because it has beautiful rings. He was surprise to know that "Pluto" is a planet too because he always thought Pluto is Mickey mouse's dog but now he understands that there could be 2 pluto's in this world just like there are 2 James in his school.
Last weekend we got a chance to visit French creek national park for hiking which is about 25 miles from our house, and fortunately on that night one of the astronomer's associations organized an open event to show celestial objects. Ishaan always talks about telescopes, so we thought to take him to the event to show few stars and planets. Ishaan was very happy to see all the scientist with their telescopes and red light headlamps. He patiently waited for them to setup there telescope and then moved up to have a peep in the eye piece, he use to describe what he saw in each telescope. He was very excited to see his favorite planet Saturn in the telescope and saw 2 more stars around it, one of which was Saturn's moon Titan. He also saw a couple of clusters like M13 which were very far and were not very clear and a nebula. We were told that in north direction there is a supernova but they did not focus on that.
Just before watching s
tars Ishaan also participated in an activity where he made a planetosphere which can be used to determine position of a star at any given point of time in year 2011(not sure why they call it planetosphere). He also learned about few constellations which he would probably forget but he wont forget the big telescope and beautiful Saturn rings that he saw tonight.
He talks a lot about planets, remember all 9 planets and his favorite is Saturn because it has beautiful rings. He was surprise to know that "Pluto" is a planet too because he always thought Pluto is Mickey mouse's dog but now he understands that there could be 2 pluto's in this world just like there are 2 James in his school.
Last weekend we got a chance to visit French creek national park for hiking which is about 25 miles from our house, and fortunately on that night one of the astronomer's associations organized an open event to show celestial objects. Ishaan always talks about telescopes, so we thought to take him to the event to show few stars and planets. Ishaan was very happy to see all the scientist with their telescopes and red light headlamps. He patiently waited for them to setup there telescope and then moved up to have a peep in the eye piece, he use to describe what he saw in each telescope. He was very excited to see his favorite planet Saturn in the telescope and saw 2 more stars around it, one of which was Saturn's moon Titan. He also saw a couple of clusters like M13 which were very far and were not very clear and a nebula. We were told that in north direction there is a supernova but they did not focus on that.Just before watching s
tars Ishaan also participated in an activity where he made a planetosphere which can be used to determine position of a star at any given point of time in year 2011(not sure why they call it planetosphere). He also learned about few constellations which he would probably forget but he wont forget the big telescope and beautiful Saturn rings that he saw tonight.
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