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Astronomy Essentials

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What are the essential things for an introduction to astronomy?

Today I had the opportunity to talk with a group of high school students in an astronomy class at University Schools, a charter school, up the road in Greely, CO. The last time I was around high school students was when I did some classroom observing as part of the education program at my undergraduate institution, Hastings College. The group came to DU's historic Chamberlin observatory as part of an outing to Denver.

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Posted by bkloppenborg on May 14, 2011 - 12:13am

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