Jan. 25th

The professor showed us around the lab and observatory/observing deck that we will be working out. Luckily, we had enough time to finally start observing the sun! The professor wheeled out the sun telescope to the observation deck (which is a tiny thing, about a foot long, on a stand on a wheely table), taught us how to use it, which is simple but you basically take two caps off (one that covers the eye hole, one that covers the lens), tighten or loosen the mobility of the telescope, and to line it up with the sun. To line it up, you just have to eye the left edge of the telescope with the sun, so that they are lined up (form a line), and search for a white dot on an area of the telescope. Unfortunately, it was too cloudy that the sun could be hard to find through the telescope, and even harder to see once found. The sun telescope was shared with another group, even though there was a second telescope they could use. After trying to find the sun, with the help of the Professor, we wheeled the telescope back inside the building, and headed back to the classroom.

For the rest of the class time, Ali and I began sharing and discussing the information that we found while researching the sun on our own, and both agreed that it was hard to find any information on the correlation between weather and sunspots, and decided to not talk about weather in the paper.