Day 8

Sunday 21 June 2015

A 7:20 am Didgeridoo wake-up call brought the campers to breakfast Sunday morning on Jelm Mountain (oatmeal, bagels w/cream cheese, fruit, granola bars).  After a morning of rest we went back to the classroom to classify our chosen stars using the spectral data we took at the observatory.  Such classification tells us about the temperature, mass, and radius of the stars.  We also computed how long it would take to travel to our chosen stars.  The first evening activity was skyping with another ExxonMobil Bernard Harris Summer Science Camp in Colorado Springs.  We also built electrical circuits and learned how light intensity depends on distance from the light.