Due to my gal's interest in planets, and to support her interest which I think is good for her development, I brought her to the Science Centre Observatory last Friday after visiting Kidstop.
Check out her journey of astronomy!
The star gazing session started at 7.45pm. So we quickly had dinner after the Kidstop ended at 6pm before going back to the Science Centre. We need to take a queue number or rather a time slot for viewing the big telescope in the observatory. By the time we reached at 7.45pm, there was already a long queue. The time slot we had was at 8.45pm.
So while waiting for our turn to view the big telescope, we attended a talk about constellation at 8pm. I was surprised on the big crowd. So apparently, there are a lot of people here in Singapore who are also very keen and passionate about astronomy. There were also lots of young kids attending the session. The young kids really surprised me by how enthusiastic they were especially during the Q&A session. They were the ones who kept raising their hands to answer questions about the constellations and they knew it all! It is a very promising sign for our youth who are now more outspoken as compared to my time. I hope my gal will grow up to be confident and outspoken too!
The constellation talk only lasted for 20mins. After that we went outside of the centre where they set up a few smaller telescopes for people to view while waiting for their turn to go up the observatory.
There was long queue at each telescope and the queue took about 15-30mins for each telescope viewing. We managed to see the moon, Jupiter with its 4 moons and also Mars! It was really amazing!
When it was our turn to go up the obsevatory, surprisingly there was no queue. I think the time slot really helps to spread out the crowd. We managed to see the moon up close. It was so clear that we could see the craters! My gal was so intrigued by the view that she kept exclaiming.
There is really a spark difference between viewing through the big observatory telescope and the smaller telescope. Too bad they only allowed each person to view once at the observatory.
It was really a great star gazing night and we were so lucky to see the planets and the moon.
The star gazing session is free and it is on every Friday night. If you are interested, you can check out the science centre observatory Facebook page for any updates.
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| Viewing through the big telescope at the observatory. It was amazing! |
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| The sense of wonder by looking through the telescope! |
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