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~ Easter Stardust Club at the Runaway Bay Shopping Centre  ~

4/17/2019

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~ Space display at the Runaway Bay Shopping Centre ~
I had a lot of fun with the children who came along for the two astronomy and space sessions for Easter at the shopping centre. We put up lots of space posters to make the community room all spacey and had lots of hands on space items for the kids to touch and look at :-)
 
The children enjoyed learning about our amazing Solar System and hearing all about the different spacecrafts out there exploring the planets, my mother Pam came along to help me…thank you Mum Xxx
 
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~ Wow…let’s have fun learning all about outer Space at Easter time ~

4/8/2019

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Have you ever wanted to know all about this amazing Universe that you live in?
Then come along to Runaway Bay Shopping Centre during the Easter holidays for some fun Astronomy and Space talks and activities.
 
We will learn all about the stars, planets and our beautiful Moon, and other mysteries things like black holes, galaxies and are there really aliens out there in space!
 
Learn all about the different spacecraft exploring the other planet in our solar system and how one day we may be on a journey to Mars…its all so amazing.
 
When: Wednesday the 10th April, 2pm - 3pm.
When: Monday the 15th April, 2pm - 3pm.
Ages: 6 – 12years.
 
Bookings essential.
​Book at the Customer Service Desk outside Big W.
 
Presented by Noeleen Lowndes the co-ordinator of the Stardust Junior Astronomy Club at the Runaway Bay Library and member from the Southern Astronomical Society on the Gold Coast.

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~ Globular Star Cluster ‘Omega Centauri’ (NGC 5139) in Centaurus ~

4/7/2019

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Omega Centauri is a stunning globular star cluster made up of millions of stars, it’s approximately 16,000 light-years away from us and an amazing 150 light-years in diameter, it’s the largest globular cluster in our Milky Way galaxy and it’s on show now for you to enjoy high up in the southern sky.
​It’s one of my favourites objects to observe at this time of the year :-)
 
This image was taken at my Stardust Observatory at Leyburn in April 2019 with a Meade 80mm refractor telescope and a Canon 70D camera. 15 images with exposures of 90 second and ISO 800, plus 5 dark frames were stacked in DSS, and processed in PS CS4. 
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The Stardust Junior Astronomy Club celebrates 8th birthday.... Yay!

4/5/2019

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~ Happy 8th Birthday Stardust Junior Astronomy Club ~
The Stardust Junior Astronomy Club has just celebrated its 8th birthday on the 4th April 2019 at the Runaway Bay Library and all the children had a wonderful day.  
 
They learnt all about why stars have different colours, then we played pass the parcel and enjoyed some yummy space food that included a ‘Star Cake’ that I made…we all had a great Starlight Party :-)
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    I just love being under the heavens, come on a journey with me and I’ll share some of the amazing wonders of the Universe with you. Noeleen :-)

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