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FALAK CLASS - REVIEW

REVIEW OF FALAK CLASS  [20 FEB 2009]

Last Friday, 20 Feb 2009 the venue of Falak Class suddenly need to be change due to the a conditon at Hellipad is not suitable at that time because the sportlight was emits through all over the places. After all we decided to change the venue to the nearest place that is the operating room of WATANIAH organization . For those that always keep going and follows the Falak Class activity we sincerely apologize because the sudden decision in changing the venue cause you to be truble to find the venue . However the last Falak Class was so special because while we were at the Rugby Field to do the Stargazing Session the team from falak online with thier equipments help us to track down comet lulin . That was such a really great experince to be endure .From what I have read from the article Comet Lulin is named after the observatory in Taiwan where the discovery-photo was taken. “It is a green beauty that could become visible to the naked eye any day now” .

Falak Class is open to public and it is conducted once in a week . I will describe to you how was the Falak Class was going . I wont tell you now because I dont have enough information. Some pictures will be uploaded too. But one for sure it is really interiesting because it returns us a very great experience and knowledge of the universe.

This is another interesting story  I got from Astronomy.Com : In 1996, a 7-year-old boy in China bent over the eyepiece of a small telescope and saw something that would change his life — a comet of flamboyant beauty, bright and puffy with an active tail. At first he thought he himself had discovered it, but no, he learned, two men named “Hale” and “Bopp” had beat him to it. Mastering his disappointment, young Quanzhi Ye resolved to find his own comet one day.

Amateur astronomer Jack Newton took this image of Comet Lulin with his 14-inch telescope on February 1,
2009, from his backyard observatory in Portal, Arizona. [View Larger Image]

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