[Chaos-l] Image from Little River

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

On Sat, 6 Apr 2013, Robert Nielsen wrote:

> For me, it was a young girl (perhaps 10 or 11) who asked 
> me "what is that red star to the left of Jupiter?"
>
> Short answer, it was Betelgeuse ... but the interesting 
> thing was the rest of her family said something about 
> there being no color in any of the stars.  But I tried to 
> show there was.  I asked the girl about Rigel ... she said 
> bluish.  I asked about Capella ... she said yellow.  I 
> asked about Arcturus ... orange.

wow

> I sure hope this young girl has the opportunity to become 
> an amateur astronomer ... because she "sees" things better 
> than most people.

she'll probably be an artist and live in poverty

> She also had a wonderful, inquiring mind, asking all sorts 
> of intelligent questions during the day when we were 
> observing the Sun.

great

Joe

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