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Astronomy Students Get Up Close And Personal With The Heavens
Teacher Mandy Weidenhammer gave her class a nighttime stargazer's view of Saturn and the moon via 8-inch telescopes.
astronomy students, their friends and family members gathered Tuesday night (June 7) to look through the telescopes of Lehigh University physics professor Gary DeLeo.
The students, primarily juniors and seniors, are in Mandy Weidenhammer’s astronomy course, a one-semester elective course.
Weidenhammer said she organizes the special nighttime event for each semester’s students since “viewing celestial objects really can’t happen until it’s nighttime.”
There were about 30 people participating , Weidenhammer said.
They not only looked at the moon, they also viewed Saturn, its rings and Saturn’s moon, Titan, Weidenhammer said. “It was fantastic.”
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Patch photographer Betty Cauler was there.