Overnight Stargazing

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It is Friday night. We usually have stargazing on a Friday. I arrived in the school at six twenty. I became sad when I knew that I am the only person, among the Sophies, who arrived. My sadness ended when Kristine came. We also saw Jamaica. She will be fetched by her father. I thought she will join the stargazing but the truth is, she won’t. There are only few Sophies who joined the stargazing.I went to the store, with Krystal, to have a dinner. After that, I found out that Jamaica is not there anymore. Maybe her father fetched her already.Because it is still six thirty, I waited at the catwalk. While waiting, I saw the moon. Little by little it is coming out. But few minutes later, the clouds covered it. I felt sad. I knew that if it would rain, the stargazing would be cancelled. When I asked Mme. Gallo about it, she said that there will be a full moon tonight. It is expected to have a good weather. “Think positive” I said to myself. I wished that the moon will really come out.Few minutes later, the moon really came out! It is very overwhelming to see the moon shining brightly in the sky. Under it was the Waterfront Hotel. It is very nice to see the colored lights of its roof. From purple, to green, to light blue, to dark blue, to maroon, to violet and so on.

Soon, Mr. Christopher Go arrived. Mme. Gallo told us to go to the leader because Mr. Go will have a short lecture there. He discussed about his discovery, the red spot junior. He showed us some pictures of the storms of the planet Jupiter. The pictures were taken by the Hubble space Telescope. Its speed is Four hundred kilometers per hour. It is two times as big as the earth.Actually, he attended the meeting in the DPS,(I don’t know what is its meaning), with other members like a certain Chad, who studies about the tenth planet. It was nicknamed Xena but its name is really Eris. He even said that small people are not people. Many students reacted of what he said.He also showed some pictures of the Oval BA taken by the New HorizonSpacecraft. It is the fastest vehicle ever made by man. It reached the moon within three hours after launching. Unlike Apollo11, it reached the moon for more than a week. The New Horizon Spacecraft reached the Jupiter over a year. Comparing it to the Galileo Spacecraft, it is much faster because it took Eight years before it reached Jupiter.This week is the National Astronomy Week. It is the last Venus transit. The next Venus transit is after One hundred Fifty years.On February, they will have a meeting about the global warming in Jupiter. It is due to the homogeneous temperature of the planet from pole to pole. Unlike Jupiter, the Earth has an extreme temperature in the equator and extremely cold temperature from pole to pole.After the lecture, Ella, Who is the Emcee, awarded a certificate of recognition to Mr. Christopher Go.We will have a Saturn watch this coming March. It will be held in the University of San Carlos school grounds. I hope we will enjoy just as we enjoyed it this month.