The Hardin Planetarium on the WKU campus offers a series of educational and entertaining programs throughout the year. For the past several years the Night Photography Mini Group has kicked off the season with a visit to the planetarium and this year was no exception.
A good crowd attended the program, the last one in the six week long series called "Starry Tales for a Winter Night". Met up with Bill and Rita Schneider and we had a great time.
The program was about how different cultures viewed and used the night sky where every culture gave names and made up tales to describe collections of stars we commonly see and know as Constellations. It was an interactive program where teams of people were given a formation of stars and we were to give it a name and a story. Rita, Bill, and I teamed up and named our formation "The William Tell Arrow" and its story was about how William Tell shot his arrow toward apples in the sky.
The other teams came up with some interesting and creative names and stories as well. The presenter finished off the show by allowing us to find our constellation in the night sky projected on the dome above and explained how to navigate around the night sky using some of the stars as reference pointers.
The planetarium programs are shown at 7:00 pm on most Tuesday and Thursday evenings along with a 2:00 pm showing on Sunday. The next program starting in April will be about Saturn's Rings. More information can be found by visiting: https://www.wku.edu/hardinplanetarium/
As part of the The Night Photography Mini Group agenda, we will soon be exploring the night sky and learning about the mysteries of and amazing visual collection of stars that hover above us each night. It is a fascinating form of photography and much easier to do than most people realize. Plan to join us as we start a new season. More details to come in the near future.
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