Star Party Drama and Knowledge

On Saturday, we had a Star Party where I work. [If you don't know what a star party is, a star party is where scientists or an astronomer at a museum bring multiple telescopes of various models and types. Each telescope is focused onto different objects in the sky: Antares (sp?), Saturn, M13 (Hercules Globular Cluster), Polaris, Arcturus, Altair, Deneb, etc. Visitors can come to the Star Party and look through the many telescopes and learn about astronomy.] The Star Party lasted from 7-10 p.m. My parents didn't like the time that it lasted, since "it was too late at night". And they asked me why it had to be that late. Star? Party? Star. Party. To be able to see stars it has to be late at night. Derderder! XP It kinda irritates me how my stepdad is always cynical and asking me, "Why are you so busy? It wasn't mentioned in the schedule that you would do this or that" or blah BLAH. God, I have my own life now, now that he can't handle that he has to get all mad at me for nothing.

Okay, so during the star party, in the observatory, a staff member noticed that one of the locked cabinet doors were left open. Someone called the cops and brought them to check and see if anything had been stolen from the museum. Other than that, I was hanging out with very smart people that showed me different things in the night sky. I felt surrounded by knowledge! Haha!

If you have a museum in your town, you should definitely check it out, you'll learn so much just by looking at different part of the night sky, and you'll learn how to work your way around stars and clusters and galaxies. :)