We reached out to the campers of the Garden Club of Georgia at Charlie Elliott’s Jon Wood Field. 20 Children and adults waited very patiently for clouds to slowly move through, but were rewarded with views of the Moon with some awesome closeups, Saturn, its rings and moon Enceladus and the double star Mizar. Too much light polution caused by the moon and thin clouds to see nebulas. Thanks Marie, Frank, and Theo
Clear Skies,
Theo Ramakers

Since 2008, members of the chapter have come to the Jon Wood Astronomy field to let the Garden Club of Georgia “Experience the Universe” at Charlie Elliott during their summer camp. This year again. We have been asked to come and let the participants look at the night sky on Sunday July 10th after dark. If you have a little time that evening, please come to the Jon Wood Field with your scope and join us in this event.
Thanks for considering.
Theo Ramakers
outreach@ceastronomy.org

http://ceastronomy.org/tramakers

We did two events for the participants of the Wildlife Week Camp at Charlie Elliott on Wednesday June 29th. At noon a solar event, and in the evening activities in the Visitor Center from scope building to astroid and meteorite hunting, followed by observing of the night sky at Charlie Elliott’s Jon Wood Field. The kids really enjoyed all phases of what we did. Thanks Frank, Marie and Theo for stepping up to show these kids what astronomy is about.

Clear skies,
Theo Ramakers

This was supposed to be a solar observing event, but clouds changed it into astronomy. 50 Girlscouts in ages up to middle school learned about the Sun, relative distances in the solar System and a little about asteroids. They also learned about telescopes, and looked at our atrificial moon and star and learned what telescopes do to the view of the objects. Some interesting movie clips of coronal mass ejections on the sun closed the program which was much appreciated!! Thanks Frank, Marie and Theo for stepping up despite the clouds and Mrs. Liz Reynolds for asking us to do this.
Clear Skies,
Theo Ramakers

Frank and Theo went to Hard Labor Creek Park to let a group of special needs kids take a look at the sun in an adhock outreach event on June 22. The group was camping there and they really liked looking at the sun through solar glasses provided by Stephen Ramsden’s Charlie Bates Solar Project. Than they looked at the sun with some nice sunspots through a white light scope, and proms and filaments in H-alpha.

Clear skies,
Theo Ramakers

We will have an Observe the Sun event for a girlscout troop in Conyers. We will be at the Elks Aidmore Children home on Thursday June 23. If you would like to come also. please send me an email. The address is Elks Aidmore Children home
2394 Morrison Rd;
Conyers 30094
Clear skies,
Theo Ramakers

Frank and I spend yesterday at the Arts and Science Workshops at Norcross High school. A very well organized event by Life Labs. Our worshops centered around the Sun, Space Weather, the Stereo and SDO observatory satellites, and the search for exoplanets. Some of these kids were fantastic!! In fact, the session we had with one of them made this trip already worthwile.

Thanks Frank,
Theo Ramakers

We just finished a 2 day outreach event for over 320 Cub Scouts and 60 parents from Fayette County at their summer camp at the Providence United Methodist Church in Fayetteville. During the 50 minute sessions, 20 dens learned how telescopes work, got some more insight about the sun and the stereo satellites, as well as the relative distances in our solar system. They also learned how astronomers discover and track asteroids. In addition to the presentations they saw the sun through our telescopes with some awesome prominances and a number of sun spots. click here for some images of the events. Thanks to Frank and Theo to endure the heat of the day as well as to Marie Lott, who joined us for the first day. Thanks Marie, we know how hard it is to do this while having a full time job!!
Clear skies,
Theo Ramakers

Next Wednesday and Thursday June 15 and 16th we are at the Fayette County Cub Scout camp, rain or shine. The camp goes each day from 8:00 A.M. – 3:00 P.M. Frank and I are scheduled to be there with some of our NSN kits and our Solar scopes, but it would be great if we could have 1 or 2 additional persons, or a couple, even without scope, so that we can rotate a bit, since during some of the periods we will have two troops at the same time. So if you have some time off and can make it for one or two days, please let us know so we can schedule you in.
Address:
Providence United Methodist Church – Fayetteville
592 Bernhard Rd
Fayetteville, GA 30215
Clear Skies,
Theo Ramakers

We’re reaching out to the Counselors of the summer camps at Charlie Elliott tomorrow evening. If you have time, join Frank and me to let these instructors see the nightsky through your scope. There will be a presentation in the Visitors center around 7:00 P.M. for them, where we will show them what our inside programs looks like. Than we will take them to the field at dark and let them do some stargazing.
Clear skies,
Theo Ramakers