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Welcome to the Menchville High School __Share the Skies__ Wiki

We will use this wiki to share our experiences in exploring the night sky and using Virginia's Internet Telescope.
What's in **your** sky tonight? Use this site to create a star chart for the night sky in Newport News. Print out your chart and GO OUTSIDE TONIGHT and see if you can locate the objects on the chart. Your Night Sky

For this project, you will be taking pictures of deep space objects using a telescope located in Australia. Why Australia - why not Arizona or South Dakota or even Virginia?

What time is it in Moorock, Australia? Use the World Time Clock to find out. (The largest city close to Moorock is Adelaide).

That's right. It's nighttime in Australia.

Instructions for using the telescope. Southern Ring Nebula |||| Nebula || Vela ||
 * You will be in control of the telescope once we have logged into the computer. Review the chart below and choose a deep space object you would like to photograph.
 * **Object Name/#** ||||  **Type**  ||  **Constellation**  ||
 * M61/ NGC 4303 |||| Spiral Galaxy || Virgo ||
 * M83/ NGC 5236 – Southern Pinwheel Galaxy |||| Spiral Galaxy || Hydra ||
 * NGC 3132
 * M63/NGC 4826 – Black Eye |||| Galaxy || Coma Berenices ||
 * NGC 7424 |||| Spiral Galaxy || Grus ||
 * NGC 4027 |||| Spiral Galaxy || Corvus ||
 * NGC 3532 – Wishing Well Cluster |||| Star Cluster || Carina ||
 * M8/ NGC 6523 –Lagoon Nebula |||| Nebula || Sagittarius ||
 * NGC 6302- Bug Nebula |||| Nebula || Scorpius ||
 * NGC 4755 - Jewel Box |||| Open Cluster || Crux ||
 * Omega Centauri |||| Globular Cluster || Centaurus ||
 * M20 – Trifid Nebula |||| Nebula || Sagittarius ||
 * M23 - cluster |||| Open Cluster || Sagittarius ||
 * M25 / IC 4725 |||| Open Cluster || Sagittarius ||
 * NGC 5128 Centaurus A |||| Galaxy || Centaurus ||
 * M16/NGC 6611 Eagle Nebula || Nebula |||| Serpens ||
 * Southern Cross || Constellation |||| Southern Cross ||
 * NGC 3293 || Open Cluster |||| Carina ||
 * M12/NGC 6218 || Globular Cluse |||| Ophiuchus ||
 * M14/NGC6402 || Globular Cluster |||| Globular Cluster ||
 * M11/NGC 6705 Wild Duck || Open Cluster |||| Open Cluster ||
 * M107 || Globular Cluster |||| Ophiuchus ||
 * Large Magellanic Cloud || Galaxy ||||  ||
 * M69 || Globular Cluster |||| Sagittarius ||
 * M17 – Swan Nebula || Nebula |||| Sagittarius ||
 * Southern Crab Nebula || Nebula |||| Centaurus ||
 * M 55 || Globular Cluster |||| Sagittarius ||
 * M72 / NGC 6981 || Globular Cluster |||| Aquarius ||
 * M20, NGC 6514 Trifid || Nebula |||| Sagittarius ||
 * NGC 104 47 Tucanae || Globular Cluster |||| Sagittarius ||
 * **//Willl not be visbible after 11:30//** ||  ||||   ||
 * NGC 4038/4039 Anntenae Galaxies || Merging Galaxies |||| Corvus ||
 * M 104/ NGC 4594 - Sombero Galaxy || Galaxy |||| Virgo ||
 * NGC 3242 -Ghost of Jupiter || Nebula |||| Hydra ||
 * NGC 3372 Eta Carinae Nebula || Nebula |||| Carina ||
 * NGC 3242 -Ghost of Jupiter || Nebula |||| Hydra ||
 * NGC 3372 Eta Carinae Nebula || Nebula |||| Carina ||


 * While you are waiting for your turn on the telescope, begin preparing a powerpoint slide that explains your deep space object. If time allows, you will present this slide to your class. The powerpoint slide should include:

1. your image of the object (you will find this in the hand-out folder under your teacher's name)

2. a picture of the constellation your object is located in and a brief explanation of the constellation; 3. information on your deep space object, including it's distance from earth and its magnitude;

4. and an image of your deep space object taken by the Hubble Telescope, NASA space pictures and vidoes

5. a notes page with a list of the resources you used to find your information. See example below:



Lesson from the Virginia Department of Education (Share the Skies Website) 2008