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April 25, 2009
Shooting for the Stars webcast, for Boy Scouts at Camp Durant, NC
Orion is a favorite of sky watchers, both the constellation and the nebula. In his book, Siderius Nuncius, Galileo drew a portion of the constellation, showing how many more stars he could see with the telescope. Over the years, many of the most famous astronomers including Huygens, Messier, and Draper have contributed to our understanding of the stunning nebula in that constellation. The Hubble Space Telescope has played a particularly important role, studying the details of this star forming region and revealing planetary systems in formation. This presentation roughly parallels the panel on "Star Birth in Orion" in the "Visions of the Universe: Four Centuries of DIscovery" travelling exhibit that I curated.
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This "global webcast" included presenters from the USA, the Netherlands, Canada, and Australia. The audience was about 400 boy scouts at Camp Durant in North Carolina. There were a few technical problems, as I was inadvertently left off an email and did not receive instructions on how to connect to the webcast until after the event had already started. I also resized my display resolution after I had opened my web browser and, apparently, that casued problems. I had to restart my web browser, reconnect to the webcast, and go through my initial slides a second time. Oh the joys of live webcasts.
Here are the slides of the presentation, along with a bunch of extra slides about the Orion Nebula:
Here are the links from the last slide in the prsentation:
If the webcast is posted in a public place, I'll put the link here. Enjoy! |
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