Starting bright and early Saturday morning, June 12, eight students entered one of the physics classrooms at Pitt Community College and by 5:00 that afternoon walked away with a fully functional Dobsonian mount reflector telescope. Under the direction of Charles Goodman, one of the volunteer advisors for A Time for Science, and assisted by Nancy and John Bray students assembled from ATFS style kits four 4 ½-in, three 6-in and one 8-in telescopes. Later that evening most of these budding astronomers, some joined by family, gathered with the Carolina Skies Astronomy Club at the Bray Hollow Conservancy where, during their “First Light” activities, they learned to collimate their scopes, calibrate their finder scopes and search the heavens for the wonders of the night sky.
They will return to Bray Hollow on several more occasions during this semester to complete the work for their astronomy credit. And this will all be repeated this coming Saturday, June 19 with another in the Telescope Making Workshops.
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