Astronomy Club Looks to the Skies

Summit High School’s new Astronomy Club is working the night shift. It's the best time for for the club's main activiity, which is photographing objects in the sky, such as the moon, planets, galaxies, nebulae, and clusters.

The club has 10 members and is advised by science teacher Jeremy Mormon.

“We want to learn about these objects as we photograph them and to promote the Science Department’s astronomy elective course by displaying our images online and on school bulletin boards," Mormon said.

The club has three telescopes – a five-inch refractor with a computerized equatorial mount, a 10-inch Dobsonian-type Newtonian reflector, and a small solar telescope with an H-alpha filter. Two cameras were also purchased by the Summit Educational Foundation.

The club will be meeting a few more times before the end of the school year.