A party of seven members from Redditch Astronomical Society accepted the invitation of Rugby Astronomical Society to join them for a private session in the Planetarium at The think Tank Birmingham.
Below is a report on the visit by Dominic Gribbin:
After introductions, we all went upstairs to the planetarium, it was fairly big, but the chairs could have lent back slightly more. We were told about finding different star constellations. Most of them included Polaris, the North Star, and Orion’s belt.
We talked about the size of some stars, basically casually we learned that they can be HUGE. But I think that most people thought that the stuff about the radio-dome was the most fascinating. The fact that the first ever radio broadcast, still out there, it has been transmitted over 79 light-years, that’s amazing.
There was a great analogy said during this, if a man dipped a glass into the sea, and filled it with some of the water and there are no fish, he wouldn’t assume that there were no fish in the sea, that is just like the dome. To assume that there are no aliens, just because we haven’t found any is completely idiotic.
At the end there was a joke song about the summer triangle, and someone made a comment at the end, saying that’s what happens when you put a physicist, an astronomer, and a musician together in a room, catastrophe.
Overall, I highly suggest, if you happen to be at the Thinktank, or are planning a day out there, go to the planetarium, you learn a lot, and it’s very easy to understand, I’m 12, and I understood all of it.
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