Constellation and Deer programs this weekend were great!

This weekend at our Discovering Deer program, we were able to see signs of deer at West Point like their footprints and scat. As we journeyed through the woods we noticed the deer tracks mainly by the muddy shores of Crooked Creek. The tracks looked a bit like thisAnd the scat, A.K.A. poop, we found looked a little like this (the one on the left side):
This picture is a comparison of the white-tailed deer and eastern cottontail (which live in NC).



On our night program, Starry Starry Night, we were able to get great views of the wanning gibbous Moon and Jupiter with 3 of its moons. Jupiter has 64 known moons, but 4 of them are massive and can be seen from Earth with a telescope or binoculars.

Here is the phase of the Earth's moon we saw:

http://ed101.bu.edu/StudentDoc/current/ED101fa09/egach/Waning%20Gibbous.html

And here is Jupiter with 3 of its massive moons:


http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/objects/planets/3307071.html

It was a fun weekend with many sights to be seen.
Join us this Saturday, the 12th from 10am-12pm at West Point on the Eno, to learn about NC Bears. Chris will take you on hike through the forest to learn about the lives of black bears in NC.

Don't forget to check our website link on the right to see upcoming programs.