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Welcome to the Neil Armstrong Elementary Astronomy Club! Look around - we have a lot planned this school year!

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  5 year old Destiny looks on at Jupiter through a large telescope.  "This is so much fun I could do this Every Day!"

This was a common scene at Galilean Nights at Neil Armstrong Elementary School on Friday, October 23rd.  Between 50-70 Families were treated to a host of activities, all centered on celebrating the discoveries of Galileo 400 years ago.  Read on... 


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  • Families Enjoy Night Sky at Galilean Nights 5 year old Destiny looks on at Jupiter through a large telescope. Neil Armstrong Elementary School, Port Charlotte FL, Oct 23rd About 70 Families were treated to a host of ...
    Posted Oct 29, 2009 12:32 PM by Jason Bilotta
  • Viewing Night This Friday Night! We will be hosting a viewing night this Friday, October 30th.  It will be a small telescope and naked eye observing night, with Jason showing us more constellations, and we ...
    Posted Oct 28, 2009 6:07 PM by Jason Bilotta
  • First Meeting October 16th! NAE Astros will be having the first club meeting at the school at 7:25am, followed by a viewing at the school that night from 7:15pm until everyone leaves ...
    Posted Oct 8, 2009 11:59 AM by Jason Bilotta
  • Galilean Nights! Join us as we celebrate the 400th anniversary of Italian Astronomer Galileo's discoveries as we turn our telescopes up to Jupiter! Galilean Nights will be a great time to ...
    Posted Oct 28, 2009 8:02 PM by Jason Bilotta
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In the Sky


 Stephen's Quintet is found in the constellation Pegasus. Of the five galaxies, four are involved in a massive collision (the spiral galaxy at the bottom is a foreground object). 

Earlier this year, Spitzer Space Telescope observations of this group found one of the biggest shock waves ever seen. NGC7318b, the right of the two small bright regions in the center of the image, is colliding with the hydrogen gas spread throughout the cluster.

Within the heart of the majestic spiral galaxy shown above, NGC 5033, lies a powerful engine.










NGC 7814 is a disk galaxy seen edge on. From this angle, we cannot determine whether it has a spiral structure. This image shows clearly the dust in its disk and its bright central bulge.


NAES Astronomy Club is made possible by the cooperation of Neil Armstrong Elementary School staff and administrators, several wonderful parent and teacher volunteers who get up early every Friday morning and stay out late some Friday nights, and resources supplied by the Night Sky Network, the SW Florida Astronomical Society and Skeptikids of SW Florida.