DCP visits Dublin School Observatory!

The Dublin Community Preschoolers and their parents had an amazing outing to the Perkins Observatory on the campus of the Dublin School last night.

Dublin School teacher, Jonathan Weis, helped facilitate an amazing learning experience for us.  The night was clear and cold. Perfect viewing conditions.  Outside the building at the top of the field we looked together at a variety of constellations that the children had already learned about through their monthly visit from the Harris Center.  Harris Center teacher Laura Kennedy also joined us and helped bring to life everything we have been learning about during our space theme.  We saw great Orion the Hunter and Cassiopeia, the Queen.  We saw a star called Beetle Juice that might explode sometime in the next thousands of years.  We saw the Big Dipper.  We saw the moon. And then the magnificent telescope brought all of that and more to us, so close that we felt like we could reach out and touch it.

“I liked seeing the moon.  It was SO BIG! I felt like I was on my way there.”

“I loved seeing Jupiter and its moons.  At first it just looked like a regular old star.” 

Thank you, Jonathan, for brightening our horizons and inviting us into your magical world of astronomy!