broadening our cultural horizons through space exploration. the Keskemet Planetarium is a must. ask for Zoltan if you go.
a video/slide show of great moments in space was followed by an impressive but confusing lasershow (random dog imagery? correlation to outerspace uncertain)
heres a picture of laserbeams infused with fog!
afterwards, we were given a special presentation by the man behind the Planetarium, Zoltan. he was extremley excited to have us. as one member of our party put it afterwards, “he really thought we were important.”
after providing us with 3-d glasses to check out his collection of space pictures, he had us sit again in the comfortable office chairs in the Planetarium and gave us a private display of the cosmos and informed us of their distance from each other and realtive size in terms of light-years. the man was incredibly smart and enthused. he had his astronmy down so it was pretty amazing to just listen to him go on about what and where everything was. his english was not great but it was good enough. i could only imagine all the knowledge he would have to share if we spoke the same language. definitly a memorable outing.
half in outspace already,
Brandon Boan was blown away by the 3-d lunarscapes. he confided in me at one point, “im having the time of my life. i feel like i'm floating.”
my favorite part about 3-d imagery is whether or not you are wearing the glasses for it, it is still equally nauseting to look at.
Kecskemét, Hungary to Athens, Ohio: 4,783 miles=8.136255835962099e-10 Light Years
"...to measure really long distances, people use a unit called a light year. Light travels at 186,000 miles per second (300,000 kilometers per second). Therefore, a light second is 186,000 miles (300,000 kilometers). A light year is the distance that light can travel in a year, or: 186,000 miles/second * 60 seconds/minute * 60 minutes/hour * 24 hours/day * 365 days/year = 5,865,696,000,000 miles/yearA light year is 5,865,696,000,000 miles (9,460,800,000,000 kilometers). That's a long way!
Using a light year as a distance measurement has another advantage -- it helps you determine age. Let's say that a star is 1 million light years away. The light from that star has traveled at the speed of light to reach us. Therefore, it has taken the star's light 1 million years to get here, and the light we are seeing was created 1 million years ago. So the star we are seeing is really how the star looked a million years ago, not how it looks today. In the same way, our sun is 8 or so light minutes away. If the sun were to suddenly explode right now, we wouldn't know about it for eight minutes because that is how long it would take for the light of the explosion to get here."
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