Day 2 Astronomy Project

On our second day, we welcomed John S. Gianforte from the University of New Hampshire. Mr. Gianforte is the Director of the UNH Observatory as well as an astronomy instructor. He also has his own telescope at home!!  He talked with students about our 3741 exoplanets, 2794 systems and out of these systems the 625 known multiple planet systems. Something we didn't know was the best tool to view stars is a set of binoculars! We also learned that Galileo was not the inventor of the telescope, Han Lippershey was. Galileo only improved on it calling it an "optic tube."