Astronomy Programs and Innovative Educational Offerings 

Real Time- Year Round

Daytime and Evening Celestial Observing  

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Actual STUDENT comments from our programs

"The moons have changed since last week" 
5 year old boy’s observation of Jupiter Winter 1999 Observational Astronomy Class 

"I see them! I see them!" 
9 year old girl Furnace Woods Elementary after-school program 1999

"Polaris appears to be a double using averted vision"
Spring 1999 Observational Astronomy Class

"I see the peak and the shadow"
Girl scout telescopic observation of lunar crater Copernicus, Rock Hill Camp 1998

"Alien civilizations will not have wars"
8 year old boy Fall 1998 Observational Astronomy class

".....The alien will need food for energy, but he may not eat like we do"  
7 year old boy pondering the possibility of intelligent life in the universe

"If Pluto is so far away, how do we take its picture?"
1st grader French Hill Elementary school after- school program 1999

"Maybe they are red because of iron?"
7 year old boy’s observation of Martian deserts Spring 1999 Observational Astronomy Class

"Solar energy will make her tail grow" 
7 year old girl watching ‘Katie the comet" Brownie scout St. Patrick’s school classroom program 1998

"Pollution made Venus so hot"
St. Columbanus school assembly 1999

"Light pollution can effect birds the most" 
Girl scouts’ observation Rock Hill Camp 1999 

"The blue star is a type "O" and is the hottest" 
1st grader French Hill Elementary school after- school program 1999 during discussion of the Hertzsprung-Russell scale

"Because we have more rods and cones?" 
Student pondering human vision 8 year old boy Harrison after-school program 1999

"Does anything exist in "non-space - non-time"? 
Furnace Woods Explore and Create elementary after-school program 1999 Cosmology and universe formation discussion

"The Oort cloud is very cold" 
1st grader French Hill Elementary school after- school program 1999

"The Schmidt-Cassegrain would give a better view because it gathers more light"
8 year old boy Lakeland after-school program 1999

"Dark matter  would cause collapse"
Furnace Woods Explore and Create after-school program 1999

"I can see the weather on the sun"
7 year old girl, Chappaqua Children's Learning center after school program, 2000

"If a supernova can outshine a galaxy, why can't we see them?"
2nd Grade student Springhurst elementary school enrichment program 2001

"Wow! Wow! Wow!"
7 year old boy and parent, School nighttime assembly Garden Street elementary school Brewster, Winter 2001

"Mercury vapor lights are bad for us, sodium are better"
1st grade boy, Rye Brook, after school program, Spring 2001

"If hydrogen turns into helium, does the star get heavier?"
3rd grade girl, Harrison Avenue elementary school after school program, Spring 2001

"Alien planets sending radio signals will have doppler shifts"
5th grade boy, Harrison Avenue elementary school after school program, Spring 2001"

"I can think like Einstein"
 2nd grade boy, Primrose Elementary school assembly, Winter 2000

"It's full of stars!..."
Astronaut Dave Bowman
2001 A Space Odyssey