By jack northrup on
11/5/2009 7:26 PM
Please remember that most evenings after school Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday Mr. Northrup or Mr. Moon will be available for students to work on or test their robots. Please check in with Northrup or Moon during class to confirm your spot.
27 Days until Science Fair
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By jack northrup on
11/5/2009 6:23 PM
Soon we will be having another unveiling of two new space telescope images in the hallway outside the planetarium. The images are still embargoed (meaning we are not able to show the public) until the unveiling. I am hoping that we will get another great response to these great pictures.
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By jack northrup on
11/5/2009 6:20 PM
Please be aware that I have changed the link in the left column for ANGEL to it's new address at https://lms.ops.org
Astronomy 7 and IT Essentials' course materials are still stored there but you will not be able to see work that you did during first quarter.
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By jack northrup on
10/8/2009 6:21 PM
We are very lucky to be working with UNL and Morrill Hall to bring to the planetarium a great speaker, Nagin Cox. She is an engineer who has worked on the Galileo probe mission and the current Mars Rover mission. She will be speaking to the 7th grade semester astronomy students on Friday. Yet another example of cool things happening at King.
Challenger Center Bio
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By jack northrup on
10/5/2009 6:56 AM
Each Semester we hold a series of rocket launches, these are the results from the straw rocket launch. Student's rockets were tested in the following areas, maximum height, range and accuracy. This year5 students entered the 15 ft. club by having their rockets hit the ceiling of the cafeteria.
15 ft. Club
Range
Ft.
Accuracy
Agent M
Mr. D
36
1
00M2
Mr. D
Ms. H
35
2
Agent T
00M
00M2
34
3
Cmd. M
00M2
Mr. D2
25
4
Dr. A
Ms. H
Secret Agent S
22.5
5
Ms. H
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By jack northrup on
8/13/2009 6:48 PM
The last few weeks I have recieved a few emails from people asking me about Mars in August to September.
The Clark Planetarium posted a blog post explaining the situation with Mars.
Mars Link
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By jack northrup on
8/7/2009 4:25 PM
I have made a change in the order of the videos that I have made for the Galileoscope.
- Assemble the tube of the scope.
- Finalize tube.
- Assemble 25x eyepiece
- Assemble Barlow
- Mount scope on tripod.
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By jack northrup on
7/29/2009 9:01 PM
Right click(ctrl-click) to Play. I have also placed this video above in the player.
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By jack northrup on
7/22/2009 9:36 AM
The amazing things you learn over your summer vacation. This summer I was fortunate to attend a workshop/class on the program Blender and it's use in the planetarium. One of our first assignments was to make a full dome video of our planetarium's logo. Well I brought my project back here to King and changed the settings a little and now we have a full-dome 1536x1536 animated welcome screen for the planetarium. I posted a copy of the video in the box above, just click the arrow to see it.
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By jack northrup on
7/20/2009 6:00 AM
At 20:17 UTC (3:17 PM CDT) forty years ago the Lunar Module Eagle landed on the the Moon.
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