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Originally Posted by Robh
Liz,
That's a lot of astronomy students. Were they actually doing a course in the subject or were they students doing other courses who were interested in astronomy? How did the observations go?
Good on you both (you and Carl)!
Regards, Rob.
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The students were doing the subject PH1002, which is a first year physics subject in Astronomy. Unfortunately at present, JCU doesn't have an undergrad degree course for Astronomy. Mainly because of funding, but also because it has concentrated on the postgrad degrees till now. I would like to see an undergrad course develop on what we do already have. Most of the students who were there were physics/science students.
The observations went very well. Most of the students hadn't observed through a telescope before and many were quite surprised at what they could see. They enjoyed it quite a lot and it was good to be able to field their questions. They are a clued in lot and I think Aimee probably has an interesting time teaching them.