Practical Astronomy Workshop

     The Judenite’s Astronomical Organization (JAO), which is the first and the official astronomical community in the Saint Jude Catholic School has a primary aim of promoting the education, understanding, awareness, and interest involving astronomy among Judenites, by providing various hands-on activities, designed to pique the curiosity among its members regarding astronomy. Due to our desire to promote astronomy more to the community of Saint Jude Catholic School, the JAO will be organizing an event entitled, “Practical Astronomy Workshop,” which will happen on April 4, 2018, from 4:30 pm to 6:30 pm at the IB room 8.

     This event will consist of three lectures. The first lecture will be about the basics of using the software Astrometrica as a means for astronomers to discover planets and asteroids. The second lecture is about determining the time of the day using the shadow of the sun. the last lecture will be about the basics of setting up an equatorial mount telescope.

     This event is open to all of the members of the high school community of Saint Jude. In addition, there is no registration fee needed in order to participate in this event.

     The speaker for the event will be the president of JAO which is Sobina Yu. She is a part of the Philippine team of 2017 SGAC ISAC.