Light Benders DIY Observatory Project is for putting together a basic toolkit and experiments for amateur and hobby astronomers. Participants will get a chance to setup their own observatory and learn the use the tools to make observations to analyze results to publish their findings.

Activities in the project based workshop:

• Registration closed

• Dates: April 10- May 10 2021

• Cost: $10 per family

• Simple tools and techniques

• know about the universe and your place in it

• Share pictures of your experiments and observation documents.

• Zoom sessions

• Outdoor socially distanced stargazing opportunities

Some of the Objectives:

• Build maps for the directions of your home

• Build map and visualize the ecliptic and planetary plane

• Understand polar sky map

• Locate the north star Polaris and visualize your rotation

• Map the location of the SGR-A black hole

• Track seasonal constellations

• Track Zodiac constellations

• Track phases of the moon

• Know about Eclipses

• Build a sundial and track equinox and solstices

• Build spectrometer and understand star spectrum