Feb. 22 Guilford College Observatory Talk Will Feature "Seven Sisters and a Horse"
This month’s open house presented by the Department of Physics will explore how stars are born, using two visible winter objects to show the beginning if the star life cycle. “Seven Sisters and a Horse” will take place on Sunday, Feb. 22, at 7:30 p.m. in Joseph M. Bryan Jr. Auditorium. The program is free and open to the public.
Assistant Professor of Physics Don Smith will give a short presentation on the auditorium’s new dome planetarium projector illustrating how stars come to be, using as examples the Pleiades, an open cluster of young stars, and the Horsehead Nebula, a cloud where new stars are in the process of turning on. Smith will also point out prominent features and explain the history of the two objects.
The program will be followed by a tour of the college’s Cline Observatory and, weather permitting, viewing through the main telescope.
Joseph M. Bryan Jr. Auditorium is located in the Frank Family Science Center, accessible by the campus’s North Entrance (Arcadia Drive/George Fox Road).
The Department of Physics presents programs and tours of Cline Observatory monthly during the academic year.
For more information, call 316-2193 or visit the observatory’s Web page at www.guilford.edu/observatory.
Feb. 6, 2009