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AUT Astronomy Club’s Opening Activity |
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The
AUT
Astronomy Club, on its inaugural outing, observed more than
20 meteors as part of the Leonid meteor shower November 12
at the Amaz Cool Camp in Mont Lebanon.The show in the sky
began around midnight, as meteors appeared red and green,
alone or in groups of up to three, to the crowd assembled at
the campsite composed from 2 of the
AUT
Astronomy club, and 10 other participants. The meteor show
lasted about three hours. The club members were joined at
the camp, which sits 1700 meters above sea level, by
AUT
Mr. Michel Honain and students from other universities
joining their Artonomy Club such as American University of
Beirut, Universite Saint-Joseph and Universite Saint Esprit-Kaslik.Before
the event, AUT
club President Michel Jlailaty gave a presentation to the
crowd about the club, meteors, constellations, planets, and
telescopes. Club members also explained to the crowd the
workings of the telescope for the event – it was a Trasko
T13, Newtonian system. Members of the club, which was formed
this year, had met at 7:30 pm at
AUT’s
Halat campus before heading up to the camp. Before the
meteor shower they relaxed and played guitar.
AUT’s
club members and the other meteor watchers left the Amaz
camp at dawn around 03:00 a.m. The Leonid shower, which
usually occurs in the third week of November, always appears
in the Leo constellation, which gives the event its name. In
perhaps the most famous Leonid meteor shower, Europeans saw
millions of meteors November 17, 1833.
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Michel
Jleilati
and
Antoine Rashkidi at work
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"Astronomy Club"
president Micheal Jlailaty
pinpointing a star constellation
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Purchasing Manager
Michel Honein
roved to be a fan of astronomy
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