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2009

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is international year of astronomy and

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to celebrate that

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amateur astronomers all over the world

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are going to be taking their own

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telescopes

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out for their communities to look

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through hundreds of thousands of them

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will be all doing the same thing many

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times on the same night

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and how cool is that we've got two

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ladders we've got two telescopes

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eyepieces mirror back there name tags

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we're heading to library park in

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monrovia it's our regular

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uh star party site when i first made my

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first telescope i pretty much used my

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telescope out on my back deck

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then one day a friend of mine asked me

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if i would help him at a star party at a

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school

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pretty soon i found that that was my

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favorite thing to do was to talk to

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people

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who were wanting to know what we were

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looking at

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we want to bring the telescopes to the

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people and we kind of like the idea that

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we're just

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hopping out of cars and setting up

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telescopes we call it urban gorilla

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astronomy

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we set up in the middle of the cities we

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set up under bright lights where people

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have the impression that you can't do

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any astronomy

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and when you give people a look at the

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moon or jupiter or saturn the brightest

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things in the sky and they're amazed you

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can actually see them from the city and

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you can

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it gives them a little personal

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connection to the universe let's see the

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can you see the white yeah that's the

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moon

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hi mallory how old are you three you're

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three

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did you look inside the telescope what'd

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you see

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their enthusiasm really comes across and

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that's what's so wonderful that they're

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extending themselves

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to get everybody to join in in their

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enthusiasm for the stars and that's

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really great

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you can set up telescopes in your

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backyard you can see everything better

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in your backyard but it's not the same

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as if you can share it with other people

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they can look through the telescopes and

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then you get the reaction

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a star party is a great way to celebrate

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international year of astronomy

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but you can also connect with volunteer

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networks from nasa like the solar system

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ambassadors

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night sky network and saturn observation

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campaign all of those people have

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telescopes

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and lots of enthusiasm to share with you

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what better way can you celebrate

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international year of astronomy than