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sweetpinkpixie · 06-17-2015, 02:15 PM

SPOILER!!: quiet kiddos

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Originally Posted by Symphora

Henric sneaked a glance at Professor Dakest..rumour has it that the DADA professor might be ...a...a...werewolf!? If it was true...Henric would find it supercool. A werewolf professor teaching in Hogwarts...man...how epic was that?! Of course... he wouldn't want to meet one in real life, uh uh..no. He bet Professor Flamsteed was probably expecting a scary reaction from the students too but...y'know after experience three years of weird happenings and tragic loss of a housemate...he was pretty sure most of them were immune to it by now so...it was not surprising in a way...? Anyhuu....Henric thought this lesson was still going to be a brilliant one...indefinitely, he mused.

He held his moon-stick up right in front of him and moved his head slightly to the left, oh wait... were they supposed to go around it? Ohh...oops...left rotate around Henric....rotate...slowly now. There! He saw it! That waxing crescent! Woaah...what a beautiful sight that was....he couldn't help feeling amazed. Adi seemed to try really hard containing his excitement, He chuckled at the older puff boy, Adi being all Adi again.Yup.

Urgh...the rotating was making him dizzy so he stopped after seeing enough of the new moon transition. Cool.
Question time...again...he had no idea on how to answer Prof.Flamsteed.

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Originally Posted by fire_faerie

And they were moving again. Doing as told, Benzi swiveled around on his foot until his back was to the flames and the little moon was... dark. Not what the professor was talking about at all. This was what is known as an eclipse, where his head was much too big to let any light illuminate the ball.

Stretching his arm out far, he grinned when the silhouette of his head appeared on his little moon. A semi full Benzi eclipse. BUT, okay, he'd play with the rest of the class and get to the full moon, lifting his arm and therefore eliminating his shadow from the white ball.

Hello full moon.

And as for the question... Toby and Cutty and others had already answered it so he just nodded and continued to mess around with his moon. Of course, he was nodding at the wall since they were now facing away from the professor but whatever. Flamsteed would see an inverse nod from the back of his head.

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Originally Posted by kayquilz

They were spinning. Eden wanted to dance. She paid attention to her styrofoam moon, though, and did try to take note of the way the light played on the ball...it did look like a legit moon. Cool. She was dying to take notes, though. ugh. She'd have to jot everything down once they got a chance to sit. Or...should she try to scribble some notes down right now.

Ugh.

The woes of being studious.

...but as for the terminology, Eden wasn't sure. Hmm. Waxing. How odd to call the moon phases....waxing. It reminded Eden of cleaning a car. Hmph. She still had no idea, but she quickly set down her styrofoam to JOT DOWN ALL THIS STUFF BECAUSE DEAR MERLIN EDEN WAS PANICKING ABOUT NOT REMEMBERING IT TO WRITE IT DOWN.

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Originally Posted by Govoni

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This seemed like a very awkward dance, in hindsight...but Gabriel did as was instructed, paying close attention to how the bluebell flame first appeared as a crescent and then grew. And after it reached the halfway mark, it seemed to swell out further.

...which was what the Gibbous name referred to: swelling, bulging, or convexed.

Gabe almost answered the question...when someone had asked...but he couldn't make out the owner of the voice and alas, it wasn't his place. That, and he wasn't facing anyone...and it was strange to talk with your back to people.

So, he remained silent this go around.

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Originally Posted by ArianaBlack

Holding his moon as still as he could was starting to become quite the task. You know, he never realized how hard it was to stand still up until now. Merlin's pants this was hard. Especially since the moon depended on it, y'know? But anyways, he was still. SUPER still and SUPER concentrated. New moon. Got it.

Man, Flamsteed sure knew how to talk.

Which he only noticed 'cause he was trying to stay really still.

Alright, finally time to move. The Gryffindor moved as slooooowly to the left as he could, still holding the moon in it's place. And yeah, the light was starting to grow on the right side. Huh. Waxing. This was much more interesting that the wave stuff from last term. Constellations were fun though. But this demonstration was better. At least, in Zander's humble opinion.

He continued to follow along with the demonstration, doing his best to follow along as Professor Flamsteed moved about. Again he chose to stay quiet when the next question was asked, realizing that the same answer had been repeated just about a million and three times. No need to make it a million and four, y'know? He did notice Sophie and Toby though and couldn't help but snicker. This was too good. OOPS.

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Originally Posted by hermionesclone

Hay is for horses. Hay. Is for. Horses.

Airey Flamsteed was the biggest freaking nerd alive.

Grayson couldn't help but be embarrassed as well as thoroughly amused by the pun. Embarrassed for the guy but man, his timing had been on point, he was gonna give him that. Hey is for horses. SNORT.

Before he could comment on it, the lesson had gotten started and they were learning about...........

HOLY.

FREAKING

MERLIN.

WEREWOLVES! FREAKING WEREWOLVES, MAN. Grayson was dead chuffed at this news. Werewolves were kinda interesting and all, you know? They weren't the kinda creatures that were gonna skip around throwing rose petals. They were dangerous and deadly and therefore Grayson loved them. Probably not as much as he loved dragons but eh.

Being all too excited about this, the seventh year didn't end up answering the first question. He simply carried out the task at hand so that, before long, he found himself standing there with a makeshift Styrofoam moon on a stick in his hand. He tilted his head, his eyes staying glued to the object he was holding. Huh. This was useful, actually. But the dim light was gonna end up making him feel kinda sleepy. Or, as if he wanted to be sitting near a campfire and roasting some marshmallows. Both options sounded great, you know.

And the second question? Not answered either. He did, however, move around towards the left, trying to keep the makeshift moon held in place. The bluebell flames illuminated more and more of the moon and he was starting to find that this visual demonstration was helping a lot. Uh huh.

But LOL. Waxing. Interesting choice of word there.

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Originally Posted by SpiritWolfe Malfoy

Yeah Hady was slowly getting lost in this topic. Even if her first answer was correct it didn't mean she was keeping up all that well without taking her usual notes. Not to mention she was supposed to be doing what?

Blinking up at Professor Airey several times it took a few moments for everything that had been said to finally click into place in her brain cause good gosh way to much was being said! The third year had no idea what the next phase of the moon was called though she had a feeling once the correct answer was told she'd want to kick herself for not knowing it. However right now she focused her attention on holding her arm with her stick straight out in front of her while slowly moving to the left in a circle. She watched closely as it went from darkness to light. That was pretty cool and much easier to understand what you were seeing it.

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Originally Posted by Holmesian Feline

Benny wasn't getting the connection that some of his classmates had come to...that werewolves were among them. Much less that the new defense professor was one of the troubled creatures. He was beginning to think on how the subject connected with the other two subjects which made him concerned. Either seemed to be a cause for difficulty, especially given the fact that wolfsbane wasn't exactly an easy potion to brew. If they were in fact leaning in that direction.

And him without his potions helper...sigh.

He missed the various comments Professor Flamsteed made while his gaze briefly fell in the direction of Adi...and Henric. Pulling himself back when the next instructions were given. Ben slowly as instructed, yet almost forcibly turned to his left, keeping the fake moon upright and relatively still in place. The 'waxing crescent" appeared as he moved and watched it while the astronomy buff described it. Would you look at that.

Then they were at half-moon. As for the terminology, Ben had the feeling it was still Waxing since it was still increasing, but the second term always got him lost. Not the others as a few had answered. Waxing Gibbous. Ben continued his journey with his sphere until it was fully illuminated as Flamsteed had asked and paused in step.

Yeah....he should have thought this through a bit more. Thank Merlin he had his own prop to distract himself. Glancing out of the corner of his eye as he rotated a slowly left to right where he stood in front of the class, his eyes glazed over those who had not raised there hands but were still very much actively participating in the little demonstration.

Hats off to all of you. Literally...because no one was actually wearing a hat in the classroom. Against the uniform policy, after all.

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Originally Posted by PhoenixStar

Blah, blah, blah... they could start rotating themselves. Yeah, that was all she got out of the latest rant. In fact she was SO excited about being able to do something that required movement that she missed the tid bit about going at it slow. AJ wanted to be the BEST moon spinner ever so she began to twirl around in warp speed. We're talking olympic moon spinning here. Everything was a blur because she was going THAT fast. So naturally she missed the whole "everybody else was spinning ~~like a sane person~~ slowly" thing.

Whhhhheeee. It was lots of fun... you know, the first couple of minutes. The wind on her face and the way her hair fell behind her was magical.

Then...

That unmistakable watery feeling in the back of her throat happened. Vomit was coming and she was too far in. Immediately she stopped spinning, but the world was still moving around her. Stumbling a few paces, she actually managed to get closer to Airey that she previously was.

"MMM... crescents." Trying to play off this whole little situation here. He asked something about crescents which was kind of weird. What did those buttery rolls of goodness have to do with the moon?

No mattered how many times she swallowed something was coming up. It was happening. Oh no.

BLEEEERGH...

A huge puddle was right at Airey's feet. His shoes most likely got splattered a bit, but she wasn't paying much attention to that at the moment. Her stomach was still turning and she was trying to keep the remainder of her food in her stomach.

Just as she was feeling better, her moon ball fell off of her stick, and rolled right into the vomit. Of course it did. Talk about adding insult to injury. Whoops. She had forgotten to hold her stick the right side up while she heaved in front of everybody. Honest mistake when you were moon spinning.

"ERM... sorry about that." Professor head of house sir.

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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

For a few moments absolutely no sound came from the Astronomy professor despite his face being contorted in the most horrible of ways and his mouth hanging wide open. It was as though someone had cast a Silencing Charm on him to prevent the entirety of the class from having their eardrums ruptured from the high pitch shriek that tended to come from the man when his suits were in grave danger.

If this had been the case, however, the charm had worn off.

"AAAAAAAARRRRRRRGH!" he howled ~~at the moon~~. His entire body quivering, the man finally stopped shrieking after a full minute - of which he had carried the same shrill note the entire time - and STARED at Miss Valentine.

Count to 10, Flamsteed. Just count to 10...

"Wa’ ... cha’ ... wej ... loS ... vagh ... jav ... Soch ... chorgh ... Hut..."

Nothing like counting in Klingon to settle the nerves and regain some perspective, right?

"10 points," he barked, only his attention suddenly snapped around to the entire class, but especially on Miss Valentine's fellow Gryffindors. "From all four houses. You all should be ashamed of yourselves and your disregard for another's well being." camaraderie and companionship were special things. Ask him about it sometime. He had lost his best friend and beloved pet rock.

"I trust you know the proper spells to fix this...situation, Miss Valentine?" he said, eyes narrowing and not daring to actually look down at his own shoes right now. "And an additional 5 points will be deducted from Gryffindor for your inability to follow instructions."

Pausing for a beat to catch his breath, although his nostrils were still flaring like a bull's, he exhaled and spoke again. "Are you alright now? Or shall I dismiss you to go see the Healer?"

SPOILER!!: waning gibbous!

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Originally Posted by Sararara

Norah added all the moon stuffs to her notes in sparkly ink which was TOTALLY fitting even though she hadn't even been thinking of glowing moons when she'd chosen her ink color for the class. Man. She was totally a seer. A seer of INKS. If only Professor Cassie was a part of this three way class thingy, she'd be so proud.

The Hufflepuff fiddled with a strand of hair as she thought about the next question. She KNEW this, right? She'd learned the moon stuff before with her dad but she'd already forgotten about the new moon so really who even knew what she knew. Uh. So there was the full moon and the new moon (apparently), and then there was waxing stuff and waning stuff and crescents and quarters and gibbous. She knew that bit, but how was she supposed to know about the order? Was gibbous even a real WORD? It sure didn't sound like a word, if you asked her. Gibbousgibbousgibbous. She didn't even know what it sounded like, but it sure didn't sound like a real word. Biting her lip, Norah stuck a hand in the air, figuring she could at least take a shot at the answer. She just had to mix 'n match some of the words she knew, right? Just like she did with her socks in the morning 'cause matching socks were a total waste of two perfectly individual feet. The opposite of waxing was waning and the opposite of crescent was gibbous so she'd just go with that, yeah? It was worth a try, anyways. "Is it a waning gibbous? What does gibbous even mean?" she asked, hand in the air.

Well. She hadn't exactly answered the question but she'd asked two of her own which had to count for something, yeah?

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Originally Posted by Jessiqua

Zhenya wrote down a mental note in her head; New Moon = first phase of lunar cycle. Because, after all, she DID want to remember everything, and pass her exam. And now they were moving around their moon. OOoooo000ooooooooo. Zhenya slowly rotated to the left, as Professor Flamsteed had instructed, and she observed the changes to her styrofoam moon. Cool, it was actually interesting SEEING it for herself, rather than just seeing pictures. Even if the pictures were really good.

Waxing - growing of the moon.
Waxing Crescent - the first sliver of moon visible
First Quarter - obvious; first quarter of the moon's orbit around earth
Half Moon - obvious

Zhenya made mental notes of all of the positions in her head, so that she could lock 'em in there. And finally, she found herself rotated to see the half moon. What was the phase after the first quarter moon? Zhenya swivelled around to look at Professor Flamsteed and raised her free hand. "Er... the Waning Gibbous?" she asked. Okay, so she shouldn't be answering a question with a question, but she could never remember what order the Gibbous moons went in. Waning, Waxing, Wicked, Whomping, Weasley...

Still huffing and puffing and ready to blow someone's house down, Airey found enough composure to call on a few raised hands. FINALLY.

"Not quite," he said, his tone still very much carrying an unwarrented hint of annoyance as he spoke to Miss Kittredge and Miss Burton specifically. "Waning gibbous is indeed one of the phases of the Moon, but it occurs after a full moon...which you will see in just a moment." His tone was now somewhat back to normal, for the record, as class seemed to get back on track. "Gibbous, in astronomy, means to have the illuminated part greater than a semicircle but less than a circle. If you reference a dictionary, however, you will also find that it also means convex or protuberant."

LIKE HIS EYES HAD BEEN JUST A MOMENT AGO!

SPOILER!!: WHY IS IT ALWAYS YOU THREE?! *insert appropriate gif here*

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Originally Posted by feeheeheeny

...Tobes was absOLUTELY asking for it, BOPPING HER EVEN AFTER FLAMSTEED LIGHTLY REPRIMANDED THEM. Sophie WRINKLED HER NOSE playfully at her best friend, grinning all the while, and debated her options - she could bop him back again, or... oooooorrrrr... hehehehehh. HEHEHEH. Yes. That would do just fine. But she had to bide her time first and STRIKE WHEN HE LEAST EXPECTED IT.

Very innocently, Sophie tuned back into Flamsteed's instructions and obediently rotated slowly to the left, still holding the moon out in front of her. This activity was simple and kind of boring, but effective for demonstrative purposes, so it was okay. Aroooound she went slowly, turning even more as the professor spoke, and stopped when the surface of the moon was fully bathed in light.

Tobes had a weird answer to Flamsteed's question, and then he was murmuring alternative names to himself for his full moon - and that was when she made her move, reaching her hand not holding her moon-on-a-stick and - as to not disOBEY Flamsteed and she WAS keeping her moon to herself - she lightly dug her fingers into Tobes' side and tummy and tickled him for a few long moments before stopping.

That was proper retaliation and a sure win. Boom. GOT HIM.

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Originally Posted by Felixir

He hadn't been expecting it. Not for one second. Not THAT. Not from SOPHIE BROWN. Whom he TRUSTED.

Toby was still looking back over his shoulder, then leaning right back instead so he could watch Airey all upside-down and everything. Hehehe. Hi Flamste-

"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

The effect was immediate. Toby was deathly ticklish, and it took only the slightest touch to the ribs to send him into hysterics. But with the angle he was at, and having not expected it at all, Toby let out a strange mixture of a GASP, a SQUAWK, and a SQUEAL. The tickling didn't last for very long, but it was long enough for Toby to collapse into weird gasps of laughter, trying VERY HARD not to be OBVIOUS whilst LOWKEY BABBLING AT SOPH TO STOP.

"ASKHDskksdkshkSOPhaAHEHEHEE!" Oh. OH. SHE HAD ALREADY STOPPED. Oh. Oh. Okay. He could breathe. Doing that now. Okay. Just... gonna stand back up again, and... ahem. Nothing to see here. Only Toby was definitely gonna get Soph back for that. Later.

As for right now, he kept his arms PINNED to himself in case of further attack, and gave a shudder. Merlin.

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Originally Posted by Cassirin

"Gibbons?" Dot asked loudly, since she was super duper busy turning sloooooowly to the left to make her moon turn from new to crescent to waxing monkey butts. Or... no, that didn't seem right. "Ribbons?"

Dot kept turning, and it took all her energy NOT to bop anyone with her moon. But Starman had seen her, so she wasn't allowed to bop again. BUT LOOK! Sophie was doing it! "Lunation is happening. Lunation." And it was against the rules. StarMan said.

AND WERE DOING AGAIN! AIREY LEIGHTON FLAMSTEED HAD GIBBOUS EYES.

EYES THAT WERE STARING AT MISS BROWN AND MR. TOBY AND THERE INAPPROPRIATE DISPLAYS OF AFFECTION IN THE CLASSROOM!

He probably would not have noticed it had it not been for everyone standing, therefore making it MUCH easier to notice these sorts of things.

His blue eyes briefly flickered over to Miss Wojack, who seemed to be confused on the definition of lunation actually meant. "Lunation, Miss Wojack, is actually precisely what we are demonstrating right now, the period of time from one new moon to the next," he explained through gritted teeth. "What we are NOT doing, Miss Brown...Mr. Toby, is precisely what you two are doing. Just did. THAT!"

His arms were waving wildly in their general direction with some wiggly finger movements meant to represent tickling. But, really, the man just looked like he was trying to imitate Bartholomew Henry - and doing a very poor job of it.

"I will speak with both of you after class. Do not leave this classroom without doing so. And please trade seats with someone so you are further apart from each other to prevent further temptations."

They could stew on that for the rest of the lesson.

And he heard that laugh, Mr. Adair.

SPOILER!!: waxing gibbous!

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Originally Posted by FearlessLeader19

Adi just kept grinning at Henric. Really, it had been an accident but he would let Henric think it was not. It was more fun that way. Hehe.
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Yay! New moon! Adi had read and remembered correctly. Was this how it felt to be a Ravenclaw who was confident about their answers because he sure felt like one right now. Okay, moving on! The sixth year started rotating sloooooowly though with MUCH enthusiasm to the left as instructed by The Suit. Wheeeeee! This was fu- woah! He got a little feet tied there in his giddiness and almost crashed into Henric. TOO MUCH ENTHUSIASM! But luckily he managed to keep his balance. His Housemate might not be so forgiving if he took him down even though it was the older boy's birthday.

Anywaaaayyy, Adi righted himself, the 'moon' in front of his face and continued rotating, noticing exactly what The Suit had said about the light growing from the right side. FASCINATING stuff this was! He wished he could right it all down for reference but on second thought, this was much more fun.

The Puffer kept his eyes focused on the moon until the entire thing lit up. Cool! And there was Flamsteed with another question, his voice floating over to the class as Adi realised that they were all backing the man. Had this been set up on purpose? But! Onto the question. Gibbous. He thought the answer had to do something with gibbous. Hand up, he said to the room in front of him. "The Waxing Gibbous, maybe.'' Er... should he shout that answer? Could Flamsteed hear properly with since the class was facing the other way?

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Originally Posted by Felixir

So, Soph had gotten him right BACK with a bop on the head, and Toby was quite prepared to keep the back and forth going for as long as necessary. He'd just looked over and raised his moon to return the favour again when Airey's voice rang out telling them to keep their moons to themselves. But Toby, who usually did evERYTHINGHEWASTOLDBYPROFESSORSOMGRULES!!!11!1!!ON E!!, was feeling ESPECIALLY fidgetyandimpulsiveandmischievous today, and super quickly whapped Soph on the head just ONE LAST TIME. Hehe. Last hit. Hehehe.

Okay. He was done now. Promise. Ahem. "Sorry Professor Airey," Toby whispershouted, just for good measure.

But he couldn't keep his moon still, because he was Toby, so instead it ended up being carefully brandished about again, occasionally throwing the light from the bluebell flames onto his face. Lalala, don't mind him. Oh, but... they were supposed to be doing things. Rotating. Right. Toby did that too, rotating on the spot so more of the light could hit his styrofoam moon until he basically had a full moon... before using it to write his name in the air, just 'cause. That was until the question was asked and he raised his hand... the one holding the moon, and waved it around.

"Waxing gibbons. GIBBOUS. Waxing g i b b o u s. Don't wax gibbons." He fidgeted on the spot and bounced on his toes, before looking over his shoulder to see what else was going on that he was missing because he wasn't looking.

Then back at the moon, all lit up. "Full moon," he said to himself, before lowering it down so his body blocked the light and couldn't reach it. "Total eclipse." Hehe. Toby looked over his shoulder so he could see Airey again. It felt rude to stand with his back to him, even if they'd been told to.

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Originally Posted by SlytherinSistah

Chssh!

The little foam sphere became a moon as Cutty stabbed it with the stick and held it up to his face blocking the light from the bluebell flame casted expertly by Professor Flamsteed. No wandwork required. Happygoody should be glad. As the Astronomer Royal related the phases of the moon to their little foam samples it gave the tactile learner a better sense of a thing he'd seen described many times in many ways in books.

He lifted a heel out to the left and took a step, the foam sphere moon took on some light on the right side. The crescent. A familiar sight. He inched again to his left to see the first quarter, which had to appear as half of course for being half of the half of the moon they could see. Standing there in the dark, he then began to shift his moon to the right and to the left giving himself the visual of all of it's phases. A part of him wished for Headmistress Truebridge as he would've liked her input on what Flamsteed was saying earlier about the effects of the lunar phases great and small.

"Gibbous. The Waxing Gibbous moon, sir." To the riiiiight. To the leeeeeft went the little foam moon.

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Originally Posted by griffin

Penelope returned to the position that made a new moon when she heard Professor Flamsteed telling her not to get ahead of things. Slowly turning to the left when the professor told them to, Penelope looked at the waxing crescent. She continued to move until half of the sphere was illuminated, the first quarter. Now was the time for making a waxing gibbous, and then a full moon. Penelope stared at her full moon. It wasn't quite the same as the real full moon, but it looked like a full moon. She listened to Professor Flamsteed's question, keeping her eyes fixed on her full moon on a stick. "After the first quarter moon is the waxing gibbous moon, and after that is the full moon." Penelope didn't look away from her styrofoam ball moon while she answered the question. Was she getting too far ahead? The waning gibbous moon came after the full moon, then the third quarter, the waning crescent, and back to the new moon. The lunar cycle. It took about 27.3 days for the moon to complete a lunar cycle. Fascinating. The moon was one of her favorite things to study in astronomy, especially the full moon. She could stand here all night just staring at the moon.

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Originally Posted by Deezerz

Beverly made mental notes on what Airey was saying, but she was sure it was on their textbook considering that's where she had read about the phases of the moon. Rotating as he suggested, Beverly's brow rose. That was the waxing crescent. Rotate, rotate. And this was the first quarter.

Neat.

Rotating happened once more, she tilted her head at her moon-on-a-stick, her hand slowly going up into the air. "A waxing gibbous moon..." Yeah. That was after the first quarter happened. She remembered her textbook saying that.

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Originally Posted by Squishy

SNORT.

Professor Dakest's comment about the s'mores supplies almost had Lux putting her little moon right in the fire. That wouldn't be good at all but fortunately she managed to save herself. Crisis averted. Raising her hand, she silently told him that she wanted them without interrupting Flammy's lecture. See, she was a good student.

...And now she wanted s'mores.

Soooooowly rotating herself to the left, Lux held her moon in place and watched as the light began to shine on it. Oooh, how pretty. Her moon was waxing. Smiling, she kept her eyes on the growing light on the right side of it.

Oh, another question. Lux raised her hand. "It's called the Waxing Gibbous." Nod.

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Originally Posted by Anna Banana

A correct answer--WOOT!

Kate began the awkward transition of rotating slowly to the left while trying to keep her moon in place. It was awkward, because she found herself eyeing the moon, trying to keep it still, while also trying to move another part of her body. Kate had remembered studying the moon phases when she was being homeschooled by her mom. The moon always seemed like it was growing, even though it wasn't.

Then there were times when the moon seemed like it was shrinking, or waning she should say. "Is it the waxing gibbous?" she asked, her hand raised. It was the phase where the moon was almost full but not quite.

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Originally Posted by Saraie

See she was right. IT WAS THE NEW MOON. She just didn't raise her hand and answer the question out loud. She was still twirling her moon-on-a-stick. Oppps she should really stop doing that right?

When she seen the professor hold up his moon-on-a-stick. The sixth year did the same. Listening to his instructions she stood straight up again. She held her moon-on-a-stick out in front of her and rotated herself around it slowly as she was instructed. She moved around to the left. She listened to Professor Airey as he explain what this was. It was waxing. Clearly not the waxing she was thinking about. She knew all around this moon quarters and waxing rotating around the orbits. She kept listening to the professor. "Waxing gibbous, professor." She stopped once she was at the first quarter of the orbiting the moon-on-a-stick.

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Originally Posted by Harry174

Angel was trying not to laugh as her sister span so fast that she knocked something over, she was trying her hardest not to laugh at all but she failed and started to laugh a bit.

Angel managed to stop after a bit and she did as the Professor instructed turning herself around until she was in the position the Professor had asked them to get into.

Angel raised her hand and smiled at the professor as she spoke. "Is it something like The Waxing Gibbous!" Angel wasn't sure but she thought that it was worth a guess.

Could he continue teaching now? Yes? Good.

Nostrils, and a vein pulsating in his ~~large~~ forehead, he nodded his head and counted to 10 once more in Klingon - silently this time - before addressing the class.

"Waxing gibbous is correct," he replied with a stale tone. "To build upon previous information, the term waxing is used any time after a new moon but before full moon. The term gibbous is applied rather than crescent when more than half of the moon is illuminated from our perspective here on earth."

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Originally Posted by ScarletCharm104

"Waxing gibbous," she said, even though others had already said her answer. "Professor, this may be a stupid question, but for the moons of Jupiter and other planets, are the phases the same? Or, because the distance from the sun is different, do they act differently?"

"An excellent question, Miss McAlister," he saluted, feeling a little better already now that the focus was back on astronomy. "The short answer is yes, they most certainly do, these phases are not exclusive just to satellites, but planets and other objects orbiting in space experience them too. I suggest you look at page 693 in your textbook for a quick read about the subject when you have the time."

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Originally Posted by laurange

... "The full moon, professor!" he said, hand in the air and kinda bouncing because it wasn't often that he knew the answer. "And it's weird because we can't actually SEE the whole moon but it's really just half, so even though it's technically a half-moon, the name's taken by what is actually a quarter moon."

Wait, that made more sense in his head. Oh well.

"Indeed, a full moon is when the entire face of the Moon is illuminated by the Sun." And he did understand what the boy was saying, but he had already brought that up previously so the professor simply nodded at the Hufflepuff and moved along.

"Alright, you all should be a full moon position now," he continued, falling back into stride with things and not having flaring nostrils. "Keep on SLOWLY turning to your left. You see how the light is beginning to disappear from the left hand side? This is known as 'waning,' which means shrinking, and is used to describe the moon as it gets smaller from full moon to new moon. If you keep turning...you'll soon arrive at the last quarter, where the moon has completed 3/4 of its orbit around the Earth and once again looks like a half moon to us from out perspective. Keep on going and you will find yourself right were we started, at a new moon." His back now to the classroom again, Airey took a deep breath and then, with another flourish of his wand, the massive bluebell flame vanished and the torches along the walls became ablaze once more. "What we just did in approximately 15 minutes takes the Moon approximately 29 days to complete. Although, for those looking for more specifics, a lunation varies from 29.26 to 29.80 days because of the effects of the Sun's gravity on the Moon's eccentric orbit."

Setting his prop back down on the professor's desk to the left of the room, Airey looked around sheepishly at the students.

"So....he said anxiously. I'll be handing things over to Professor Culloden now, but before I do I have a little treat for all of you," he said while clapping his together nervously behind his back as he rocked back and forth on his heels. His wand out once more to summon individual packages of cookies for each student. Levitating those towards everyone, including his colleagues (hehe), the Astronomy professor tore into his own package for demonstration purposes.

"Now, I know my rules state no food in the classroom, but I would like you all to try a training exercise I did when I was learning these things." Taking out one cookie, he carefully twisted off the top to perfectly leave all the cream on one side of the cookie while the other was completely void. "New moon...full moon," he chirped, setting both bits down on the desk. Taking another cookie, he twisted off the top and began using his teeth to scrap the cream off until there was only a sliver left on the left hand side. "Waning crescent!"

Did they get the picture?

"Go ahead and make your own Cookie Moon Phase chart on your desk and, yes, you may eat the cookies. Be mindful of any and all crumbs and please clean up after yourselves."

Trust him, you won't regret it. There was nothing like learning through doing, yes? Especially with said doing gave you an appropriate little pick-me-up.

OOC: class will resume when StarShine has the time to post.

Thank you all for the laughs during the Astronomy portion <333 even if Airey was less amused, I appreciated it all and it made my day! (which was pretty bad until I read through all your replies so thank you <333)

This little cookie moon activity can all be done in 1 post, but you may take more if you wish. I think the package says there are 8 cookies in it, but let's just pretend there are 10 in case your character snaps some in half or something.

IC Professor Culloden is aware that there may be some cookie nibbling going on while he does his initial lecture

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sweetpinkpixie SSRPG Admin Gladrags Mod Quibbler Mod Minister for Magic Alley Proprietor Sea Serpent Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: The Paths Posts: 41,478 Hogwarts RPG Name: Professor Cox Ravenclaw Graduated Hogwarts RPG Name: CJ Miller Gryffindor Fourth Year Hogwarts RPG Name: Nyle Harden Hufflepuff Seventh Year Hogwarts RPG Name: Iris Harden Ravenclaw Seventh Year Hogwarts RPG Name: Calliope Barrington Slytherin Sixth Year Ministry Department Head: Charles Hollingberry Minister's Office Ministry Department Head: Airey Flamsteed Mysteries Diagon Alley Proprietor: Victor García Massey Ollivanders x12 x12	astronomizzle ♧ gryffinDORK \| & the rest is drag ♣ #badluckDerf SPOILER!!: quiet kiddos Quote: Originally Posted by Symphora Henric sneaked a glance at Professor Dakest..rumour has it that the DADA professor might be ...a...a...werewolf!? If it was true...Henric would find it supercool. A werewolf professor teaching in Hogwarts...man...how epic was that?! Of course... he wouldn't want to meet one in real life, uh uh..no. He bet Professor Flamsteed was probably expecting a scary reaction from the students too but...y'know after experience three years of weird happenings and tragic loss of a housemate...he was pretty sure most of them were immune to it by now so...it was not surprising in a way...? Anyhuu....Henric thought this lesson was still going to be a brilliant one...indefinitely, he mused. He held his moon-stick up right in front of him and moved his head slightly to the left, oh wait... were they supposed to go around it? Ohh...oops...left rotate around Henric....rotate...slowly now. There! He saw it! That waxing crescent! Woaah...what a beautiful sight that was....he couldn't help feeling amazed. Adi seemed to try really hard containing his excitement, He chuckled at the older puff boy, Adi being all Adi again.Yup. Urgh...the rotating was making him dizzy so he stopped after seeing enough of the new moon transition. Cool. Question time...again...he had no idea on how to answer Prof.Flamsteed. Quote: Originally Posted by fire_faerie And they were moving again. Doing as told, Benzi swiveled around on his foot until his back was to the flames and the little moon was... dark. Not what the professor was talking about at all. This was what is known as an eclipse, where his head was much too big to let any light illuminate the ball. Stretching his arm out far, he grinned when the silhouette of his head appeared on his little moon. A semi full Benzi eclipse. BUT, okay, he'd play with the rest of the class and get to the full moon, lifting his arm and therefore eliminating his shadow from the white ball. Hello full moon. And as for the question... Toby and Cutty and others had already answered it so he just nodded and continued to mess around with his moon. Of course, he was nodding at the wall since they were now facing away from the professor but whatever. Flamsteed would see an inverse nod from the back of his head. Quote: Originally Posted by kayquilz They were spinning. Eden wanted to dance. She paid attention to her styrofoam moon, though, and did try to take note of the way the light played on the ball...it did look like a legit moon. Cool. She was dying to take notes, though. ugh. She'd have to jot everything down once they got a chance to sit. Or...should she try to scribble some notes down right now. Ugh. The woes of being studious. ...but as for the terminology, Eden wasn't sure. Hmm. Waxing. How odd to call the moon phases....waxing. It reminded Eden of cleaning a car. Hmph. She still had no idea, but she quickly set down her styrofoam to JOT DOWN ALL THIS STUFF BECAUSE DEAR MERLIN EDEN WAS PANICKING ABOUT NOT REMEMBERING IT TO WRITE IT DOWN. Quote: Originally Posted by Govoni . . This seemed like a very awkward dance, in hindsight...but Gabriel did as was instructed, paying close attention to how the bluebell flame first appeared as a crescent and then grew. And after it reached the halfway mark, it seemed to swell out further. ...which was what the Gibbous name referred to: swelling, bulging, or convexed. Gabe almost answered the question...when someone had asked...but he couldn't make out the owner of the voice and alas, it wasn't his place. That, and he wasn't facing anyone...and it was strange to talk with your back to people. So, he remained silent this go around. Quote: Originally Posted by ArianaBlack Holding his moon as still as he could was starting to become quite the task. You know, he never realized how hard it was to stand still up until now. Merlin's pants this was hard. Especially since the moon depended on it, y'know? But anyways, he was still. SUPER still and SUPER concentrated. New moon. Got it. Man, Flamsteed sure knew how to talk. Which he only noticed 'cause he was trying to stay really still. Alright, finally time to move. The Gryffindor moved as slooooowly to the left as he could, still holding the moon in it's place. And yeah, the light was starting to grow on the right side. Huh. Waxing. This was much more interesting that the wave stuff from last term. Constellations were fun though. But this demonstration was better. At least, in Zander's humble opinion. He continued to follow along with the demonstration, doing his best to follow along as Professor Flamsteed moved about. Again he chose to stay quiet when the next question was asked, realizing that the same answer had been repeated just about a million and three times. No need to make it a million and four, y'know? He did notice Sophie and Toby though and couldn't help but snicker. This was too good. OOPS. Quote: Originally Posted by hermionesclone Hay is for horses. Hay. Is for. Horses. Airey Flamsteed was the biggest freaking nerd alive. Grayson couldn't help but be embarrassed as well as thoroughly amused by the pun. Embarrassed for the guy but man, his timing had been on point, he was gonna give him that. Hey is for horses. SNORT. Before he could comment on it, the lesson had gotten started and they were learning about........... HOLY. FREAKING MERLIN. WEREWOLVES! FREAKING WEREWOLVES, MAN. Grayson was dead chuffed at this news. Werewolves were kinda interesting and all, you know? They weren't the kinda creatures that were gonna skip around throwing rose petals. They were dangerous and deadly and therefore Grayson loved them. Probably not as much as he loved dragons but eh. Being all too excited about this, the seventh year didn't end up answering the first question. He simply carried out the task at hand so that, before long, he found himself standing there with a makeshift Styrofoam moon on a stick in his hand. He tilted his head, his eyes staying glued to the object he was holding. Huh. This was useful, actually. But the dim light was gonna end up making him feel kinda sleepy. Or, as if he wanted to be sitting near a campfire and roasting some marshmallows. Both options sounded great, you know. And the second question? Not answered either. He did, however, move around towards the left, trying to keep the makeshift moon held in place. The bluebell flames illuminated more and more of the moon and he was starting to find that this visual demonstration was helping a lot. Uh huh. But LOL. Waxing. Interesting choice of word there. Quote: Originally Posted by SpiritWolfe Malfoy Yeah Hady was slowly getting lost in this topic. Even if her first answer was correct it didn't mean she was keeping up all that well without taking her usual notes. Not to mention she was supposed to be doing what? Blinking up at Professor Airey several times it took a few moments for everything that had been said to finally click into place in her brain cause good gosh way to much was being said! The third year had no idea what the next phase of the moon was called though she had a feeling once the correct answer was told she'd want to kick herself for not knowing it. However right now she focused her attention on holding her arm with her stick straight out in front of her while slowly moving to the left in a circle. She watched closely as it went from darkness to light. That was pretty cool and much easier to understand what you were seeing it. Quote: Originally Posted by Holmesian Feline Benny wasn't getting the connection that some of his classmates had come to...that werewolves were among them. Much less that the new defense professor was one of the troubled creatures. He was beginning to think on how the subject connected with the other two subjects which made him concerned. Either seemed to be a cause for difficulty, especially given the fact that wolfsbane wasn't exactly an easy potion to brew. If they were in fact leaning in that direction. And him without his potions helper...sigh. He missed the various comments Professor Flamsteed made while his gaze briefly fell in the direction of Adi...and Henric. Pulling himself back when the next instructions were given. Ben slowly as instructed, yet almost forcibly turned to his left, keeping the fake moon upright and relatively still in place. The 'waxing crescent" appeared as he moved and watched it while the astronomy buff described it. Would you look at that. Then they were at half-moon. As for the terminology, Ben had the feeling it was still Waxing since it was still increasing, but the second term always got him lost. Not the others as a few had answered. Waxing Gibbous. Ben continued his journey with his sphere until it was fully illuminated as Flamsteed had asked and paused in step. Yeah....he should have thought this through a bit more. Thank Merlin he had his own prop to distract himself. Glancing out of the corner of his eye as he rotated a slowly left to right where he stood in front of the class, his eyes glazed over those who had not raised there hands but were still very much actively participating in the little demonstration. Hats off to all of you. Literally...because no one was actually wearing a hat in the classroom. Against the uniform policy, after all. Quote: Originally Posted by PhoenixStar Blah, blah, blah... they could start rotating themselves. Yeah, that was all she got out of the latest rant. In fact she was SO excited about being able to do something that required movement that she missed the tid bit about going at it slow. AJ wanted to be the BEST moon spinner ever so she began to twirl around in warp speed. We're talking olympic moon spinning here. Everything was a blur because she was going THAT fast. So naturally she missed the whole "everybody else was spinning ~~like a sane person~~ slowly" thing. Whhhhheeee. It was lots of fun... you know, the first couple of minutes. The wind on her face and the way her hair fell behind her was magical. Then... That unmistakable watery feeling in the back of her throat happened. Vomit was coming and she was too far in. Immediately she stopped spinning, but the world was still moving around her. Stumbling a few paces, she actually managed to get closer to Airey that she previously was. "MMM... crescents." Trying to play off this whole little situation here. He asked something about crescents which was kind of weird. What did those buttery rolls of goodness have to do with the moon? No mattered how many times she swallowed something was coming up. It was happening. Oh no. BLEEEERGH... A huge puddle was right at Airey's feet. His shoes most likely got splattered a bit, but she wasn't paying much attention to that at the moment. Her stomach was still turning and she was trying to keep the remainder of her food in her stomach. Just as she was feeling better, her moon ball fell off of her stick, and rolled right into the vomit. Of course it did. Talk about adding insult to injury. Whoops. She had forgotten to hold her stick the right side up while she heaved in front of everybody. Honest mistake when you were moon spinning. "ERM... sorry about that." Professor head of house sir. ............ ............ ............ !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! For a few moments absolutely no sound came from the Astronomy professor despite his face being contorted in the most horrible of ways and his mouth hanging wide open. It was as though someone had cast a Silencing Charm on him to prevent the entirety of the class from having their eardrums ruptured from the high pitch shriek that tended to come from the man when his suits were in grave danger. If this had been the case, however, the charm had worn off. "AAAAAAAARRRRRRRGH!" he howled ~~at the moon~~. His entire body quivering, the man finally stopped shrieking after a full minute - of which he had carried the same shrill note the entire time - and STARED at Miss Valentine. Count to 10, Flamsteed. Just count to 10... "Wa’ ... cha’ ... wej ... loS ... vagh ... jav ... Soch ... chorgh ... Hut..." Nothing like counting in Klingon to settle the nerves and regain some perspective, right? "10 points," he barked, only his attention suddenly snapped around to the entire class, but especially on Miss Valentine's fellow Gryffindors. "From all four houses. You all should be ashamed of yourselves and your disregard for another's well being." camaraderie and companionship were special things. Ask him about it sometime. He had lost his best friend and beloved pet rock. "I trust you know the proper spells to fix this...situation, Miss Valentine?" he said, eyes narrowing and not daring to actually look down at his own shoes right now. "And an additional 5 points will be deducted from Gryffindor for your inability to follow instructions." Pausing for a beat to catch his breath, although his nostrils were still flaring like a bull's, he exhaled and spoke again. "Are you alright now? Or shall I dismiss you to go see the Healer?" SPOILER!!: waning gibbous! Quote: Originally Posted by Sararara Norah added all the moon stuffs to her notes in sparkly ink which was TOTALLY fitting even though she hadn't even been thinking of glowing moons when she'd chosen her ink color for the class. Man. She was totally a seer. A seer of INKS. If only Professor Cassie was a part of this three way class thingy, she'd be so proud. The Hufflepuff fiddled with a strand of hair as she thought about the next question. She KNEW this, right? She'd learned the moon stuff before with her dad but she'd already forgotten about the new moon so really who even knew what she knew. Uh. So there was the full moon and the new moon (apparently), and then there was waxing stuff and waning stuff and crescents and quarters and gibbous. She knew that bit, but how was she supposed to know about the order? Was gibbous even a real WORD? It sure didn't sound like a word, if you asked her. Gibbousgibbousgibbous. She didn't even know what it sounded like, but it sure didn't sound like a real word. Biting her lip, Norah stuck a hand in the air, figuring she could at least take a shot at the answer. She just had to mix 'n match some of the words she knew, right? Just like she did with her socks in the morning 'cause matching socks were a total waste of two perfectly individual feet. The opposite of waxing was waning and the opposite of crescent was gibbous so she'd just go with that, yeah? It was worth a try, anyways. "Is it a waning gibbous? What does gibbous even mean?" she asked, hand in the air. Well. She hadn't exactly answered the question but she'd asked two of her own which had to count for something, yeah? Quote: Originally Posted by Jessiqua Zhenya wrote down a mental note in her head; New Moon = first phase of lunar cycle. Because, after all, she DID want to remember everything, and pass her exam. And now they were moving around their moon. OOoooo000ooooooooo. Zhenya slowly rotated to the left, as Professor Flamsteed had instructed, and she observed the changes to her styrofoam moon. Cool, it was actually interesting SEEING it for herself, rather than just seeing pictures. Even if the pictures were really good. Waxing - growing of the moon. Waxing Crescent - the first sliver of moon visible First Quarter - obvious; first quarter of the moon's orbit around earth Half Moon - obvious Zhenya made mental notes of all of the positions in her head, so that she could lock 'em in there. And finally, she found herself rotated to see the half moon. What was the phase after the first quarter moon? Zhenya swivelled around to look at Professor Flamsteed and raised her free hand. "Er... the Waning Gibbous?" she asked. Okay, so she shouldn't be answering a question with a question, but she could never remember what order the Gibbous moons went in. Waning, Waxing, Wicked, Whomping, Weasley... Still huffing and puffing and ready to blow someone's house down, Airey found enough composure to call on a few raised hands. FINALLY. "Not quite," he said, his tone still very much carrying an unwarrented hint of annoyance as he spoke to Miss Kittredge and Miss Burton specifically. "Waning gibbous is indeed one of the phases of the Moon, but it occurs after a full moon...which you will see in just a moment." His tone was now somewhat back to normal, for the record, as class seemed to get back on track. "Gibbous, in astronomy, means to have the illuminated part greater than a semicircle but less than a circle. If you reference a dictionary, however, you will also find that it also means convex or protuberant." LIKE HIS EYES HAD BEEN JUST A MOMENT AGO! SPOILER!!: WHY IS IT ALWAYS YOU THREE?! insert appropriate gif here Quote: Originally Posted by feeheeheeny ...Tobes was absOLUTELY asking for it, BOPPING HER EVEN AFTER FLAMSTEED LIGHTLY REPRIMANDED THEM. Sophie WRINKLED HER NOSE playfully at her best friend, grinning all the while, and debated her options - she could bop him back again, or... oooooorrrrr... hehehehehh. HEHEHEH. Yes. That would do just fine. But she had to bide her time first and STRIKE WHEN HE LEAST EXPECTED IT. Very innocently, Sophie tuned back into Flamsteed's instructions and obediently rotated slowly to the left, still holding the moon out in front of her. This activity was simple and kind of boring, but effective for demonstrative purposes, so it was okay. Aroooound she went slowly, turning even more as the professor spoke, and stopped when the surface of the moon was fully bathed in light. Tobes had a weird answer to Flamsteed's question, and then he was murmuring alternative names to himself for his full moon - and that was when she made her move, reaching her hand not holding her moon-on-a-stick and - as to not disOBEY Flamsteed and she WAS keeping her moon to herself - she lightly dug her fingers into Tobes' side and tummy and tickled him for a few long moments before stopping. That was proper retaliation and a sure win. Boom. GOT HIM. Quote: Originally Posted by Felixir He hadn't been expecting it. Not for one second. Not THAT. Not from SOPHIE BROWN. Whom he TRUSTED. Toby was still looking back over his shoulder, then leaning right back instead so he could watch Airey all upside-down and everything. Hehehe. Hi Flamste- "!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" The effect was immediate. Toby was deathly ticklish, and it took only the slightest touch to the ribs to send him into hysterics. But with the angle he was at, and having not expected it at all, Toby let out a strange mixture of a GASP, a SQUAWK, and a SQUEAL. The tickling didn't last for very long, but it was long enough for Toby to collapse into weird gasps of laughter, trying VERY HARD not to be OBVIOUS whilst LOWKEY BABBLING AT SOPH TO STOP. "ASKHDskksdkshkSOPhaAHEHEHEE!" Oh. OH. SHE HAD ALREADY STOPPED. Oh. Oh. Okay. He could breathe. Doing that now. Okay. Just... gonna stand back up again, and... ahem. Nothing to see here. Only Toby was definitely gonna get Soph back for that. Later. As for right now, he kept his arms PINNED to himself in case of further attack, and gave a shudder. Merlin. Quote: Originally Posted by Cassirin "Gibbons?" Dot asked loudly, since she was super duper busy turning sloooooowly to the left to make her moon turn from new to crescent to waxing monkey butts. Or... no, that didn't seem right. "Ribbons?" Dot kept turning, and it took all her energy NOT to bop anyone with her moon. But Starman had seen her, so she wasn't allowed to bop again. BUT LOOK! Sophie was doing it! "Lunation is happening. Lunation." And it was against the rules. StarMan said. AND WERE DOING AGAIN! AIREY LEIGHTON FLAMSTEED HAD GIBBOUS EYES. EYES THAT WERE STARING AT MISS BROWN AND MR. TOBY AND THERE INAPPROPRIATE DISPLAYS OF AFFECTION IN THE CLASSROOM! He probably would not have noticed it had it not been for everyone standing, therefore making it MUCH easier to notice these sorts of things. His blue eyes briefly flickered over to Miss Wojack, who seemed to be confused on the definition of lunation actually meant. "Lunation, Miss Wojack, is actually precisely what we are demonstrating right now, the period of time from one new moon to the next," he explained through gritted teeth. "What we are NOT doing, Miss Brown...Mr. Toby, is precisely what you two are doing. Just did. THAT!" His arms were waving wildly in their general direction with some wiggly finger movements meant to represent tickling. But, really, the man just looked like he was trying to imitate Bartholomew Henry - and doing a very poor job of it. "I will speak with both of you after class. Do not leave this classroom without doing so. And please trade seats with someone so you are further apart from each other to prevent further temptations." They could stew on that for the rest of the lesson. And he heard that laugh, Mr. Adair. SPOILER!!: waxing gibbous! Quote: Originally Posted by FearlessLeader19 Adi just kept grinning at Henric. Really, it had been an accident but he would let Henric think it was not. It was more fun that way. Hehe. .................... Yay! New moon! Adi had read and remembered correctly. Was this how it felt to be a Ravenclaw who was confident about their answers because he sure felt like one right now. Okay, moving on! The sixth year started rotating sloooooowly though with MUCH enthusiasm to the left as instructed by The Suit. Wheeeeee! This was fu- woah! He got a little feet tied there in his giddiness and almost crashed into Henric. TOO MUCH ENTHUSIASM! But luckily he managed to keep his balance. His Housemate might not be so forgiving if he took him down even though it was the older boy's birthday. Anywaaaayyy, Adi righted himself, the 'moon' in front of his face and continued rotating, noticing exactly what The Suit had said about the light growing from the right side. FASCINATING stuff this was! He wished he could right it all down for reference but on second thought, this was much more fun. The Puffer kept his eyes focused on the moon until the entire thing lit up. Cool! And there was Flamsteed with another question, his voice floating over to the class as Adi realised that they were all backing the man. Had this been set up on purpose? But! Onto the question. Gibbous. He thought the answer had to do something with gibbous. Hand up, he said to the room in front of him. "The Waxing Gibbous, maybe.'' Er... should he shout that answer? Could Flamsteed hear properly with since the class was facing the other way? Quote: Originally Posted by Felixir So, Soph had gotten him right BACK with a bop on the head, and Toby was quite prepared to keep the back and forth going for as long as necessary. He'd just looked over and raised his moon to return the favour again when Airey's voice rang out telling them to keep their moons to themselves. But Toby, who usually did evERYTHINGHEWASTOLDBYPROFESSORSOMGRULES!!!11!1!!ON E!!, was feeling ESPECIALLY fidgetyandimpulsiveandmischievous today, and super quickly whapped Soph on the head just ONE LAST TIME. Hehe. Last hit. Hehehe. Okay. He was done now. Promise. Ahem. "Sorry Professor Airey," Toby whispershouted, just for good measure. But he couldn't keep his moon still, because he was Toby, so instead it ended up being carefully brandished about again, occasionally throwing the light from the bluebell flames onto his face. Lalala, don't mind him. Oh, but... they were supposed to be doing things. Rotating. Right. Toby did that too, rotating on the spot so more of the light could hit his styrofoam moon until he basically had a full moon... before using it to write his name in the air, just 'cause. That was until the question was asked and he raised his hand... the one holding the moon, and waved it around. *"Waxing gibbons. GIBBOUS. Waxing g i b b o u s. Don't wax gibbons."* He fidgeted on the spot and bounced on his toes, before looking over his shoulder to see what else was going on that he was missing because he wasn't looking. Then back at the moon, all lit up. "Full moon," he said to himself, before lowering it down so his body blocked the light and couldn't reach it. "Total eclipse." Hehe. Toby looked over his shoulder so he could see Airey again. It felt rude to stand with his back to him, even if they'd been told to. Quote: Originally Posted by SlytherinSistah Chssh! The little foam sphere became a moon as Cutty stabbed it with the stick and held it up to his face blocking the light from the bluebell flame casted expertly by Professor Flamsteed. No wandwork required. Happygoody should be glad. As the Astronomer Royal related the phases of the moon to their little foam samples it gave the tactile learner a better sense of a thing he'd seen described many times in many ways in books. He lifted a heel out to the left and took a step, the foam sphere moon took on some light on the right side. The crescent. A familiar sight. He inched again to his left to see the first quarter, which had to appear as half of course for being half of the half of the moon they could see. Standing there in the dark, he then began to shift his moon to the right and to the left giving himself the visual of all of it's phases. A part of him wished for Headmistress Truebridge as he would've liked her input on what Flamsteed was saying earlier about the effects of the lunar phases great and small. "Gibbous. The Waxing Gibbous moon, sir." To the riiiiight. To the leeeeeft went the little foam moon. Quote: Originally Posted by griffin Penelope returned to the position that made a new moon when she heard Professor Flamsteed telling her not to get ahead of things. Slowly turning to the left when the professor told them to, Penelope looked at the waxing crescent. She continued to move until half of the sphere was illuminated, the first quarter. Now was the time for making a waxing gibbous, and then a full moon. Penelope stared at her full moon. It wasn't quite the same as the real full moon, but it looked like a full moon. She listened to Professor Flamsteed's question, keeping her eyes fixed on her full moon on a stick. "After the first quarter moon is the waxing gibbous moon, and after that is the full moon." Penelope didn't look away from her styrofoam ball moon while she answered the question. Was she getting too far ahead? The waning gibbous moon came after the full moon, then the third quarter, the waning crescent, and back to the new moon. The lunar cycle. It took about 27.3 days for the moon to complete a lunar cycle. Fascinating. The moon was one of her favorite things to study in astronomy, especially the full moon. She could stand here all night just staring at the moon. Quote: Originally Posted by Deezerz Beverly made mental notes on what Airey was saying, but she was sure it was on their textbook considering that's where she had read about the phases of the moon. Rotating as he suggested, Beverly's brow rose. That was the waxing crescent. Rotate, rotate. And this was the first quarter. Neat. Rotating happened once more, she tilted her head at her moon-on-a-stick, her hand slowly going up into the air. "A waxing gibbous moon..." Yeah. That was after the first quarter happened. She remembered her textbook saying that. Quote: Originally Posted by Squishy SNORT. Professor Dakest's comment about the s'mores supplies almost had Lux putting her little moon right in the fire. That wouldn't be good at all but fortunately she managed to save herself. Crisis averted. Raising her hand, she silently told him that she wanted them without interrupting Flammy's lecture. See, she was a good student. ...And now she wanted s'mores. Soooooowly rotating herself to the left, Lux held her moon in place and watched as the light began to shine on it. Oooh, how pretty. Her moon was waxing. Smiling, she kept her eyes on the growing light on the right side of it. Oh, another question. Lux raised her hand. "It's called the Waxing Gibbous." Nod. Quote: Originally Posted by Anna Banana A correct answer--WOOT! Kate began the awkward transition of rotating slowly to the left while trying to keep her moon in place. It was awkward, because she found herself eyeing the moon, trying to keep it still, while also trying to move another part of her body. Kate had remembered studying the moon phases when she was being homeschooled by her mom. The moon always seemed like it was growing, even though it wasn't. Then there were times when the moon seemed like it was shrinking, or waning she should say. "Is it the waxing gibbous?" she asked, her hand raised. It was the phase where the moon was almost full but not quite. Quote: Originally Posted by Saraie See she was right. IT WAS THE NEW MOON. She just didn't raise her hand and answer the question out loud. She was still twirling her moon-on-a-stick. Oppps she should really stop doing that right? When she seen the professor hold up his moon-on-a-stick. The sixth year did the same. Listening to his instructions she stood straight up again. She held her moon-on-a-stick out in front of her and rotated herself around it slowly as she was instructed. She moved around to the left. She listened to Professor Airey as he explain what this was. It was waxing. Clearly not the waxing she was thinking about. She knew all around this moon quarters and waxing rotating around the orbits. She kept listening to the professor. "Waxing gibbous, professor." She stopped once she was at the first quarter of the orbiting the moon-on-a-stick. Quote: Originally Posted by Harry174 Angel was trying not to laugh as her sister span so fast that she knocked something over, she was trying her hardest not to laugh at all but she failed and started to laugh a bit. Angel managed to stop after a bit and she did as the Professor instructed turning herself around until she was in the position the Professor had asked them to get into. Angel raised her hand and smiled at the professor as she spoke. "Is it something like The Waxing Gibbous!" Angel wasn't sure but she thought that it was worth a guess. Could he continue teaching now? Yes? Good. Nostrils, and a vein pulsating in his ~~large~~ forehead, he nodded his head and counted to 10 once more in Klingon - silently this time - before addressing the class. "Waxing gibbous is correct," he replied with a stale tone. "To build upon previous information, the term waxing is used any time after a new moon but before full moon. The term gibbous is applied rather than crescent when more than half of the moon is illuminated from our perspective here on earth." Quote: Originally Posted by ScarletCharm104 "Waxing gibbous," she said, even though others had already said her answer. "Professor, this may be a stupid question, but for the moons of Jupiter and other planets, are the phases the same? Or, because the distance from the sun is different, do they act differently?" "An excellent question, Miss McAlister," he saluted, feeling a little better already now that the focus was back on astronomy. "The short answer is yes, they most certainly do, these phases are not exclusive just to satellites, but planets and other objects orbiting in space experience them too. I suggest you look at page 693 in your textbook for a quick read about the subject when you have the time." Quote: Originally Posted by laurange ... "The full moon, professor!" he said, hand in the air and kinda bouncing because it wasn't often that he knew the answer. "And it's weird because we can't actually SEE the whole moon but it's really just half, so even though it's technically a half-moon, the name's taken by what is actually a quarter moon." Wait, that made more sense in his head. Oh well. "Indeed, a full moon is when the entire face of the Moon is illuminated by the Sun." And he did understand what the boy was saying, but he had already brought that up previously so the professor simply nodded at the Hufflepuff and moved along. "Alright, you all should be a full moon position now," he continued, falling back into stride with things and not having flaring nostrils. "Keep on SLOWLY turning to your left. You see how the light is beginning to disappear from the left hand side? This is known as 'waning,' which means shrinking, and is used to describe the moon as it gets smaller from full moon to new moon. If you keep turning...you'll soon arrive at the last quarter, where the moon has completed 3/4 of its orbit around the Earth and once again looks like a half moon to us from out perspective. Keep on going and you will find yourself right were we started, at a new moon." His back now to the classroom again, Airey took a deep breath and then, with another flourish of his wand, the massive bluebell flame vanished and the torches along the walls became ablaze once more. "What we just did in approximately 15 minutes takes the Moon approximately 29 days to complete. Although, for those looking for more specifics, a lunation varies from 29.26 to 29.80 days because of the effects of the Sun's gravity on the Moon's eccentric orbit." Setting his prop back down on the professor's desk to the left of the room, Airey looked around sheepishly at the students. "So....he said anxiously. I'll be handing things over to Professor Culloden now, but before I do I have a little treat for all of you," he said while clapping his together nervously behind his back as he rocked back and forth on his heels. His wand out once more to summon individual packages of cookies for each student. Levitating those towards everyone, including his colleagues (hehe), the Astronomy professor tore into his own package for demonstration purposes. "Now, I know my rules state no food in the classroom, but I would like you all to try a training exercise I did when I was learning these things." Taking out one cookie, he carefully twisted off the top to perfectly leave all the cream on one side of the cookie while the other was completely void. "New moon...full moon," he chirped, setting both bits down on the desk. Taking another cookie, he twisted off the top and began using his teeth to scrap the cream off until there was only a sliver left on the left hand side. "Waning crescent!" Did they get the picture? "Go ahead and make your own Cookie Moon Phase chart on your desk and, yes, you may eat the cookies. Be mindful of any and all crumbs and please clean up after yourselves." Trust him, you won't regret it. There was nothing like learning through doing, yes? Especially with said doing gave you an appropriate little pick-me-up. OOC: class will resume when StarShine has the time to post. Thank you all for the laughs during the Astronomy portion <333 even if Airey was less amused, I appreciated it all and it made my day! (which was pretty bad until I read through all your replies so thank you <333) This little cookie moon activity can all be done in 1 post, but you may take more if you wish. I think the package says there are 8 cookies in it, but let's just pretend there are 10 in case your character snaps some in half or something. IC Professor Culloden is aware that there may be some cookie nibbling going on while he does his initial lecture __________________ We broke into a million pieces, and we can't go back......................................... But now we're seeing all the beauty in the broken glass..................................... The scars are part of me, darkness and harmony My voice without the lies, this is what it sounds like