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- From: regester@astro.as.arizona.edu (Jeff Regester)
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- Subject: UPCOMING ASTRONOMY CAMPS FOR ADULTS AND TEENS
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.235138.26038@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu>
- Date: 10 Nov 92 23:51:38 GMT
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- Organization: University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
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- The Steward Observatory Astronomy Camps for Adults and Teens for the
- coming winter, spring and summer have been scheduled. The dates are:
- Advanced Adult Camp Feb 18-21
- Beginning Adult Camp Apr 23-25
- Beginning Teen Camp Jun 7-14
- Advanced Teen Camp Jun 18-25
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- The Astronomy Camps are run by Steward Observatory (Univ. of Arizona)
- as a non-profit educational outreach project. Attendees use the 40",
- 60", and 61" research telescopes of the Mt Lemmon and Mt Bigelow
- Observatories (north of Tucson) operated by NASA and Steward. A 16"
- Schmidt camera and numerous portable telescopes are also available.
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- The Adult Camps are during weekends and consist of observing (using
- eyepieces, astrophotography with film and CCDs, and photometry,
- according to participant interest) and lectures, demonstrations, and
- discussions. Tours of research and engineering facilities, such as the
- spin-casting facilities of the Steward Observatory Mirror Lab, are
- also conducted.
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- The Teen Camps (for ages 13 to 17) each last a week, four nights of which
- are spent observing. Activities include those of the Adult Camps plus tours
- of Kitt Peak facilities, science demonstrations, lectures (space program,
- archaeoastronomy, space art with Kim Poor, etc.) and other activities
- (model rockets, volleyball, orienteering in the mountains, etc.)
-
- For both Teens and Adults, the Advanced camps are for those who have
- previously attended a Beginning Camp or who have prior amateur astronomy
- experience. The Camps are run by Dr Donald McCarthy of Steward Observatory.
- Other Steward faculty and graduate students, as well as personnel of Flandrau
- Planetarium, participate as guest speakers and camp counselors.
-
- To receive more info about the Camps, contact either
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- Don McCarthy voice: (602)621-4079
- email: mccarthy@astro.as.arizona.edu
- usps: Steward Observatory, U of A, Tucson AZ, 85721
- or
-
- Jeff Regester voice: (602)621-6535
- email: regester@astro.as.arizona.edu
- usps: Steward Observatory, U of A, Tucson AZ, 85721
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-
- Jeff Regester
- counselor, U of A Astronomy Camps
-