Friday, September 17, 2010

The Night Sky

A bit about our night sky, here is some interestiing information about Venus.
Check it out!!
Venus

How many of you have tried to fin different things within the night sky, whether it be constellations or planets?  Have you ever used a telescope?  What have you seen?

109 comments:

Luke said...

My dad always checks out the NASA website, so we always find out about whats going to be in the sky and when. I have a telescope at home, and we look at the moon. In February you could see Mars and the at its largest in 10 years!

Lamping Ally said...

When i was little me and my dad used to go outside and look at the stars and "camp outside." A constelltion that i have seen many times is the big dipper. I dont have a telescope but i think it would be cool to have one though(:

Peters,Jennifer said...

I like to look at the sky and find the constellations like the Big Dipper. I have never used a telescope becaus eI don't have one. I have seen the Big Dipper though and my Grandma showed me where to look for a planet.

Taylor's blog spot said...

me and my cousins sometimes use his telescope to see wats in the sky when i look i always see so many stars and planets its so cool, but no i dont have a telescope but i wish i do! -taylor humphries

Moehring,DeeAnna said...

when i was about 6 or 7 me and my brothers and sisters would go outside on our trampoline and watch the stars, and i think ive seen the big dipper before but i have not seen any of the planets before:)

Moehring,DeeAnna said...

@ally i also think having a telescope would be cool because it gives you a closer vision of the sky:)

Luke said...

To Lamnping:
my dad and I like looking for Orions Belt and Squirpia. My telescope is really weird, its picture is upside down and backwards:0

Peters,Jennifer said...

@Luke Your so lucky I want a telescope, I think it would be cool to go outside and see the stars, planets and constellations up close. My Grandma is the one that talks to me about the world and space.

Anonymous said...

Me and my friend always go outside when it is a cool, clear night. I love camping with my family too. Its neat to find big constellations and i am always ready to go outside on a clear cool night to find new things.

ReddingtonDavid said...

i never noticed it but now i am going to look for it

Anonymous said...

My family owns a campground, so during the summer when we go down there my cousins and I go into this big patch of grass, or down to the "beach" and look at the stars when we have a clear night.(:

Anonymous said...

@luke I always wanted a telescope and go outside with my dad and look at the stars. i hope sometime i can go get a telescope and look at the stars with my dad.

Anonymous said...

@ Lamping,Ally
I think it would be really cool to have a telescope too, I have never looked through one before, and I really want too.

Sturwold, Kaylee said...

i havent seen much because i dont have a telescope but a couple weeks ago in august i saw the meteor shower it was so cool i only saw a couple tho because they went so fast across the sky my grandma saw like 8 it was so interesting i jumped on my trampoline when it happened and one went right above our heads i wish i could see a planet tho it would be so cool

LaGrangeBonnie said...

I have tried to find constellations in the sky. I have seen basic constellations like the big and little dipper. I used to have a telescope, but I was a lot younger and I don't think we really looked for anything we just like looked at the stars, but either its stored somewhere or we broke it. Once at enrichment day Mr.Stoddard brought in this blow-up planetarium and we went in and he pointed out constellations and how the stars looked in all the seasons it was so cool. My mom was there to help and she and I still rememeber it. I've also been to a planetarium with school(I think!) and my brother's boy scout den when he was a boy scout!

Moehring,DeeAnna said...

@young, mackenzie
i think its cool you and your family have a campground i would love to watch the stars there:)!
my family and i also used to have a campground and we would watch the stars and ride jet skis all night on the lake! it was so much fun:)

LaGrangeBonnie said...

@Kaylee I don't know when, but recently I saw the space station go by! I wish I would've seen the meteor shower!

Sturwold, Kaylee said...

@ luke i think it would be so cool to have a telescope and it would be cool if my mom would check the NASA website all the time it would be so cool to see mars

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Henson,Megan said...

When I was little, I used to go outside and look at stars through my telescope.

Sturwold, Kaylee said...

@bonnie i called your house since you live right up the street from me and you said that you were watching it? it would be cool to watch the space station go by ha every time i see a jet plane going up i always ask "IS THAT A SPACE SHIP" but it never is :)

Moehring,DeeAnna said...

@i think its so cool you have a campground and watch the stars:)! my family and i used to have a campground and we would stay out all night watchi

LaGrangeBonnie said...

@Kaylee Nice but it wasn't a space ship it was like this space station thing that I guess astronauts or something go to, it wasn't anything spectacular it was just like a white lite moving throught the sky kind of slowly it sort of looked like a star!

LaGrangeBonnie said...

@Jenn Since your grandma showed you where to look did you end up seeing the planet, which planet was it? I have always wanted to see a planet, maybe I will look for Venus tonight!

schatzman.arin said...

How could anybdy on earth mistake a planet for ufo ,I mean if aliens could even have a flying saucer you think thier technology would be so primitive that you could see thier ships

Henson,Megan said...

@ Bonnie
I used to do the same thing when I was little. I would go outside and just look at stars.

Anonymous said...

@bonnie I saw the space station go by too. I t was amazing to see i hope to see it again.

LaGrangeBonnie said...

@Megan yeah I still do it sometimes because my dads out there everynight. He just sits out there with his I-pod and like this fountain candle thing and watches the stars. Sometimes I go out there with him. We watched the Lunar Eclipse ( I think thats the right name) together!

Anonymous said...

i thaught that the story about venuse was intresting to learn about because i dont now that much about venuse and other planets and i would like to learn more
Sarah Savard

LaGrangeBonnie said...

@Anna are you sure we are talking about the same thing because I thought it was cool, but like I said it kindajust looked like a moving light!

Anonymous said...

JILL STANGE
I SAW THE SPACE SHUTTLE LAST YEAR AT NIGHT TIME.IF ITSDARK WHEN I GET HOME I CAN SEE THE DIPPERS AND RYANS BELT.

Savard, Samantha said...

I do try to find things within the night sky i mostly try to find planets or the big Dipper. I do not have a telescope so I would not know what it is like to see things up close but i have always wanted to look up in a telescope i think it would be really close

Sturwold, Kaylee said...

@bonnie ya but its the fact that you got to see one but i get what your sayin i think it would be cool that it looked sorta looked like a star was it cool or was it more like a little white lite moving?

Savard, Samantha said...

@Taylor
I also do not have a telescope but since your cousins do what is it like can you see better

Tyler said...

Ive always wanted to see another planet looks like tonoghts the night but i dont hsve a telescope:(

Riley, Olivia said...

I want to see Venus tonight because i havent seen it before. i wonder what it looks like???

bekah said...

i havent really looked for constelltions besides the big dipper. my dad has a telascope so we use it sumetimes its hard to look at the moon because you have to get it just right

Garvey, Emily said...

I have used a telescope once but the stars are Beautiful.(:
Moon, Yeahh, we always debate if it is a half or a cresent. I love seeing a full moon,

Greve, Julia said...

@ luke

NASA has a website?

Tchase said...

I remember My aunt told me Jupiter was outside..Well It was actually Venus.So me and my mom went outside at night last month and saw it set low behind some tree's it was hard to see but i saw it becuase it was so bright!!I thought it was so pretty. I had never seen Venus like that before .
Another time is when i saw a eclipse. It was like The moon and sun morphed together it was so cool!

waters,gabrielle said...

I cant wait until to night so i can see venus.I love to learn about space its like a big black mystery you never know whats out there.It will be cool to see venus in the night sky...cant wait

Tedesco.Jake said...

My dad has been looking at the NASA website ever since we saw the space ship take off in florida and he always tells us when a planet is really close.

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Anonymous said...

i also would look at the stars sometimes with my dad on my trampoline on weekends only really but i could only find the little dipper not the big one at least i think
\-sydney polking

Anonymous said...

i also would look at the stars sometimes with my dad on my trampoline on weekends only really but i could only find the little dipper not the big one at least i think
\-sydney polking

Anonymous said...

i have only been onn the nasa website once and that was with my friend!i am sorry mrs.hoffman but i dont think learning about space is thar much fun! but my grandma once gave me a bag of space ice cream it looks gross because it is all dry but it really good it is all dry! lyndz roberto try it if you get a chance!

stalbaum,lauren said...

@ emily

i have to admit that the stars are a beautiful but i have always wondered that if we call them stars, if there are other people out there, do they call our sun a star?

i mean why dont we call our sun a star? it is the same as almost all the burning balls or gas in our solar system :)

Anonymous said...

on my farm in indiana i really never notice the stars in the sky and if i do there is like two or three when i wAKE UP AROUND 7 i can still seee the moon lyndz roberto

Anonymous said...

ALLISON JOHNSON- I do use the telescope sometimes. I see the moon and some stars.I never saw mars or any other planets.

Anonymous said...

that would be so cool to have a telescope! I dont have one, but ive tried to make out things with the stars, unsecsucesfully.

Anonymous said...

@Henson Megan I ALSO USED TO LOOK THROUGH THE TELESCOPE WHEN I WAS LITTLE AND SAW THE STARS.

Anonymous said...

hahah i forgot to put my name...
-sara voigt (:

Zach "Hillshire" Viox said...

sometimes when i am outside in my pool i look up at the sky and see the many stars and pick out the constellations. i do not own a telescope but i notice constellations in the night sky.

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Weisker,Kyle said...

@I have never used a telescope because I can't see! I have never tried to find thing in the night sky because I can't see! I have seen nothing in the night sky because I cannot see!

Anonymous said...

monni szary-
yes i have use the telescope. I seen alot of stars.

Anonymous said...

i have a telescope and look at the stars alot when i am in the country were there isent as much light polluten
from walter burkart

Anonymous said...

wow that was cool i cant wait to see it THANKS FOR THE INFOMATION!



kylie gill

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Andie said...

I remeber I went on this one vacation to Beaver Island, Michigan and it was really cool because when we went my dad brought a telescope so every night we got to look in the stary night finding different stars.

Weisker,Kyle said...

@taylorhumphries
What was the brightest star you have ever seen. Could you describe to me what a telescope look like and why they are so important?

John Dinger said...

I like to look at constellations.i had a teloscope but we gave it to somebody else.i have seen a lunar eclipse some planets stars and comets

Weisker,Kyle said...

@moehring,deeAnna
What does the big dipper look like? Could you describe it to me since I can't see?

Natalie said...

My dad has a telescope but we don't use it very often because it's stored away somewhere, although everyonce in awhile he will get it out and look at the stars. Also, when I went to the beach this summer my uncle, my cousins and I went out on the beach at night and looked at the stars and constellations. We saw the basic constellations like the big and little dipper but we also saw other constellations like virgo.

Anonymous said...

@Deeanna,
that sounds like SO much fun(:
I love jetskiing...and i think it would be really fun to look at the stars while jetskiing

John Dinger said...

@weisker,kyle
i have never used a teloscope either.the stars are beautiful.there is lots in the sky. i truly hope one day you can experience it

gaddis,breanna said...

i have never looked through a telescope into the sky, but what i see without a telescope looks very interesting, i like to look at the night sky especially bacause of the stars

gaddis,breanna said...

@weisker
the big dipper is stars in the sky formed together to look like a bowl with a handle on it, it is really interesting to look at and its amazing how stars can form themselves into a shape!

Anonymous said...

joseph pegg-

I see a lot of spacestations.

gaddis,breanna said...

@weisker
if you were able to see the night sky you woulod love it, sometimes the sky is really bright because of the moon and stars and other times its really really dark where you cant see anything!the sky is a very fasinating sight, i wish that you were able to here the sky so you could picture it in your mind!

Thorp,Jayden said...

@ Luke
yeah that sounds realy cool about the NASA website i didnt think they had a website lol so maybe tonight i will go on the website tonight..

martin,katie said...

when ever the was something going on like with space and i didnt have a telescope then but now my grandma has one i go over ther all the time and we look at all the different stuuf i think it is realy cool

wessels,kelsey said...

i think its so coooooooooool that venus is the brigest star in the sky.its neat that you can see it from the sky

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gaddis,breanna said...

@weisker
a telescope helps you see closer to something that is really far away.

martin,katie said...

@luke thats realy cool and i look at tyhe moom to isnt so cooland that realy cool i will make sure to see it

Thorp,Jayden said...

I have looked in a telescope but i was 8 and i dont remember what i saw cause i was so long a ago!

wessels,kelsey said...

ive really nevere been itrasted in the sky but i think i will start to like it more

Dupont, Noah said...

I don't really look up into the sky too much. Unless Im out in the country where there aren't many lights. Then I do cause I can see more stars! That and because everytime I look up into the sky I get this weird feeling. Its hard to explain. We used to have a telescope, but somebody broke it. When I did use it I saw a FedEx plane. And then the blank night sky.

MooreKassidy said...

i have never tried to find anything besides the moon because i have never really been that interested in the sky. ihave never used a telescope before but i want to now that we are learing about it.

MooreKassidy said...

@ kelsey i feel tthe same way.!

Anonymous said...

i think i've been told about this before but i forget the details. the last time i've used a telescope was when i saw a youtube video about mars and if you could spot it with a telescope. i never could find it.

Calderon, Heidi said...

I have tried to find different things in the sky with my brothers telescope... i havent quiet foound nothin yettt but the moon..(: i try to look at the sky like almost every night at like 8:30 or 9:00 but soo far i havent seen or found anything yett (:

cirkovic, daniel said...

I've never looked through a telescope but I think it would look cool. I like looking at the moon at night.

Calderon, Heidi said...

Me and my dad and others do look at into the sky at night but sometimes i only look into the sky by myself or with my little niece or nephew it is a very funn thing because they love to sit outside with me and look into the sky with the telescope's (: its a very fun thing to do sometimes when im in the mood of doing it

cirkovic, daniel said...

@John Dinger

You saw a lunar eclispe! Isn't that when the moon is in line of the sun so it looks like there is a black sun in the sky. You are lucky if you saw that.

Calderon, Heidi said...

@lamping,ally
Having a telescope is a very fun thing to have because it doesnt matter what time of the day it is u can just either walk outside or look through the telescope through your window..(: try to gett one i have 3 and they are alot of fun to have with you(:

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Jenkins,Tom said...

i am exited becuse i have a telescope!:)

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Hannah Graff! said...

I Have Tryed To Find Different Planets In The Night Sky. I Have Also Looked For Consellations In The Sky, But I Never Seem To Find Them... I Have A Telescope And Its Really Cool All Off Those Stars In The Sky Are Amazing!!

Calderon, Heidi said...

Heidi
I have useda telescope like a million times.... i got my first one when i was 5 years old and it was awesome even though it was bigger than me(: it was cool though

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Dupont, Noah said...

@Sturwold, Kaylee
You just reminded me of when I saw a few shooting stars last year. It was cool! We still look for them in the night sky when we are waiting for the bus. They're just so cool. Its like a streak of light for 0.5-1 second! Its small but awesome!

@Schatzman Arin
I never thought of that myself! I mean the planet being mistook for a UFO I thought of I mean seriously! How? Also I agree with you on the UFO not being primitive.

Jenkins,Tom said...

re Sanzere,Anna :me too

Anonymous said...

That is crazy.How can we see that planet its millions of miles away and it would have to be really bright for us to see venus

wessels,kelsey said...

@pete georgeantonis
lets go pete lets go see the planes
hahahahahahahahahahah

Unknown said...

the stars are cool i can always see the big dipper

Guthier Nick said...

I have used a telescope and I looked at some stars the moon the big dipper and the north star it was really cool. At night I look at the moon and try to find the big dipper.

ReddingtonDavid said...

i think the night sky will be fun to learn

kallmeyer, bridget said...

My dad and I tried to find some constellations and planets when we were outside this summer. We also watched the sky a few weeks ago when the space station passed overhead. I have never used a telescope but have used binoculars to look at the moon.

kallmeyer, bridget said...

@Jennifer
One of the constellations that I like to look for is the Big Dipper too.

Hannah Graff! said...

@Olivia Riley

Planets Look LIke Stars :)
They Are Bright and Big
So I Bet Thats What It Looks Like :)

gorrasi josh said...

i have tried to find stuff out about the constellations and o ryans belt is always right above my housr when i go to the bus. ive also never used a telescope before.

Anonymous said...

kylie gill- @luke so does my dad sometimes so we could find out what the moons looks like? but not all the time and some time i just look at the moon in the sky.

Anonymous said...

@ monni i know i used it befor it is cool seeing all the stars and the moon too.

kylie gill

Anonymous said...

Austin Breiner-I think That is really cool to see.

Reis, Elizabeth said...

I've always wanted a telescope. When I was younger I used to be so interested in things like constellations. When I would go to the library I would always get at least one book on the stars. My sister used to look for the Big Dipper with me and I liked finding Orion's belt. I don't think I've ever looked for a planet though!

Reis, Elizabeth said...

@David I think it will be too!