newestskypuppy

After several months of hard work and determination, Matthew completed all of the requirements set forth by the Astronomical League to be certified as a Sky Puppy. To receive consideration for certification Matthew followed the following criteria (copied and pasted from Sky Puppy Manual).

Sky Puppy Projects:

Must be able to tell 2 different traditional constellation stories from a cultural tradition of the child's choice.

Must be able to use binoculars to locate and identify 5 deep-space

objects from this list suited to binocular observing.

• • • • • M42, the Orion nebula

        • M31, the Andromeda galaxy

        • Albireo, a double star in Cygnus

        • The large and/or small Magellanic Clouds

        • The Pleiades

        • The Hyades

        • a Globular cluster

        • The Beehive

• • • 1. Must be able to identify and describe the Milky Way

      2. Must be able to find the North Star (or the Southern Cross)

         1. 1. Must keep a log of all observations. Each entry must provide object,

            2. date, naked-eye or binocular, and notes.

      3. Must draw a rough sketch of one of the following:

• • 1. 1. • Jupiter with as many of the 4 Galilean moons as you can see

          • The sun with sunspots

          • A crater on the moon