Star Lab 
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Star Lab is now housed at the AEA if you have questions please contact:
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Peg Christensen
Curriculum Consultant-Science
Office: Johnston
Phone: (515) 270-0405 x14553
pchristensen@aea11.k12.ia.us
STARLAB Training:
Date: September 18, 2009
Time: 9:00 a.m. - 11:30 p.m.
Location: Hillis Elementary School, 2401 - 56th Street, Des Moines, IA 50310
Instructor: Peg Christensen - Heartland AEA Science Consultant
Registration #: SC006317371002
Description: This workshop addresses the care and use of the STARLAB portable planetarium. If you are new to STARLAB you need to attend the training. Returning users need not attend but are welcome if a refresher course is needed.
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The Star Lab is a small, portable version of the permanently installed planetarium. Star lab consists of an inflatable room which can hold about thirty children or twenty-five adults. Inside is a novel projector, which can show the night sky with very realistic stars, planets, and the moon. By changing the projection cylinder, the projector can also produce constellation outlines, a globe of the Earth, or a diagram of the human cell. For astronomy, the changing motions of the sun, moon, planets and stars can be shown with a whole year condensed into a few minutes.Heartland has five star labs for check out.
Starlab User Evaluation (word doc)
Local Links for Astronomy:
Des Moines Astronomical Society
Erwin Fick Observatory operated by Iowa State University
Automated Telescope Facitilty at the University of Iowa
Ames Area Amateur Astronomers
Des Moines Astronomy Club
Amateur Astronomers of Central Iowa
Astronomy Clubs of Iowa
Drake Observatory and schedule:
Drake Municipal Observatory Lecture Series. Each series begins at 8:00 pm Contact Herbert Schwartz for additional information
Astonomy Resources
Constellation Books from Heartland's Professional Library (pdf)
Constellation Videos from Heartland's Professional Library (pdf)
Mythology Books from Heartland's Professional Library (pdf)
Mythology Videos from Heartland's Professional Library (pdf)
Skywatch Podcasts: Latest Astronomy buzz about planets, black holes and more.
Images from the Hubble Telescope
