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| Term 15: March - May 2007 Term Fifteen: IHT |
03-30-2007, 09:30 PM
| | Astronomy Lab You enter the Observatory and find instructions written on the blackboard. Professor Belle seems to be completely focused on something currently, so you sit down without talking. Quote:
Take a seat by a telescope.
Look at Venus and Mars.
Sketch them.
Write a story about life on either planet.
NO TALKING
ooc: Okay, this is the run down, RP what you're doing/how you're going about finding the planets in here. I'm not a strict ninny, so just post how you fiddle around with the telescope and stuff, I will not check to be sure you tilted it right and all.
This thread will close Wednesday April 4th sometime, whenever I get a chance to get on.
PM (Mistress Vondella) or email (vondella@snitchseeker.com) the sketches (up load to an image hosting site and give me the link) and the stories to me by April 10th 6pm CST (GMT-6). Stories are to be less than 1000 words, but at least the length of a drabble (100 words). Be creative. Have fun with it.
PS There's no text for this. It's all your creativity. Though you can use the "text" for basic info if you like on the planets. |
03-30-2007, 10:24 PM
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| Gnome
Join Date: May 2006 Location: Dreams he is in London, preparing to watch the fifth movie. Avvie: BrightestWitch
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Hogwarts RPG Name: Florence "Randy" Jetter First | Florence strode into the Astronomy Lab, ready for a night of looking at the stars. He glanced around, and saw that the lab was nearly empty. Once he spied the writing on the board, he took out a sheet of parchment, sat next to a telescope, and began. He found Mars right away. It was red, so that was easy. He sketched it quickly and moved on. Finding Venus was a bit more difficult. Soon enough, though, he did and made a quick sketch.
Finally, he had to write the story. Deciding to save that for the Ravenclaw common room, Florence packed up and walked out.
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03-30-2007, 11:50 PM
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| Re'em
Join Date: Aug 2005
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Hogwarts RPG Name: Sophia Svensson #556B2F Fourth Year Hogwarts RPG Name: Kenneth Mills #666F26 Hufflepuff Second Year Games & Sports Ministry RPG Name:
Gabriel Hawthorne-Melo #47316F Law Enforcement | Constant Vigilance! O_O AWAKE! Josey walked into the Astronomy Lab and looked around. There wasn't anyone there she knew, but that didn't matter. She saw the directions on the board and immediately sat down next to a telescope. Venus was her favorite planet, so she quickly adjusted the telescope until she found a good view of the planet. She pulled out a quill and parchment piece, and began to sketch. When she finished the sketch of Venus, Josey peered into the telescope and adjusted it several times until the red planet Mars came into view. Josey drew Mars with more difficulty, but soon finished. She looked at her sketches in satisfaction, then stood up. She would rather work on the story in the library, so someone else could sit where she was and work. If and when more people crowded into the lab. Stretching, Josey rolled up her sketches and left the lab. |
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03-30-2007, 11:53 PM
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| Snidget
Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Bates Motel
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| The rattylooking half elf that was Ringo trudged into Astronomy gazing through his long bangs at the sights. He sat next to an unoccupied telescope and examined it, not looking very impressed. |
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03-31-2007, 12:14 AM
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| Forest Troll
Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Far... Far Away.
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Akasha Balathzar | At the loony bin ❣ Ubiquitous ❣ Brain!nvader ❣ !Wake The Deadˇ Lua quietly entered Astronomy Laboratory, green eyes flashing across the room to find an empty spot. Today, she was in the mood to pay her alien friends a visit, she even wore a matching outfit. She wore a black shirt with a picture of planets rotating clockwise along with black trousers and half braids on either side of her head with a matching witch hat sparkling with shiny stars.
She strolled past Professor Belle, softly murmuring a “hello” as to not disturb her then made her way to a far corner that held residence to a deserted telescope. Lua laid her bag on the ground next to the telescope then began fiddling with it sideways, diagonally and many other directions until she found a good height for her to see through the eyepiece. Once ready, she fixed her spectacles on the eye piece and began zooming and shifting the telescope in search of planet mars.
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03-31-2007, 12:37 AM
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| Jarvey
Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: *thinking* can't remember i'll get back to you on that
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Hogwarts RPG Name: Em Second | Em walks in and sits down at an empty telescope she starts too fiddle with it and soon finds Mars she sketches it and starts looking for Venus
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03-31-2007, 01:35 AM
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| Quintaped
Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: in my head [GMT-6]
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Hogwarts RPG Name: Amelia Adara Graduated Hogwarts RPG Name: Emma Montmorency (#301199) Hufflepuff Second Year Ministry RPG Name:
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Amelia strolls into the Astronomy Lab, green eyes sparkling as she glanced for an empty telescope. She took note of the instructions on the board and then noticed Professor Belle, who seemed not be paying any attention. She whispered a "hello" and then made her way over to the farthest right telescope possible.
Setting her bag on the ground, she took a seat and then reached into her bag pulling out a single sheet of parchment and her favorite green quill. She looked left as she saw other students already checking out Venus or Mars, and then drawing some simple sketches. Aww... I wish that I had taken those art classes over the summer, she thought secretly.
Amelia then looked into the telescope and her eye started blinking a lot, ugh, i hate looking into these things. She reached down into her bag again and pulled out some eye drops - carefully leaned her head back and instilled one drop per eye. Blinking a few times, she then resumed looking into the night sky. She smiled as she saw this shimmering red planet, which she knew to be Mars, and began sketching it out onto her parchment - making sure to note the big white spot. She then moved the telescope around a bit, trying to find Venus. Suddenly, she saw it! And boy was it beautiful!
She sighed and thought that she would write a story about life on Venus later that week, after finishing her other homework. So she packed her parchment and quill away, and then decided to continue looking into the telescope for perhaps some other planets. She chuckled at the thought that someone would name a planet 'uranus'... i mean, honestly, someone must have had too many butterbeers to think of that one.
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03-31-2007, 02:05 AM
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| Hippogriff
Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Rhode Island, USA
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Hogwarts RPG Name: Sloane W. Fordyce First Year Ministry RPG Name:
Macadrian Shackleton-Clark Accidents & Catastrophes | Cheesy Mac Kennedy entered the Astronomy lab just before sunrise with her turquoise floral printed satin cotton tote bag, to which was attached a contrasting yellow bow, slung over her left shoulder. Inside this bag was some fresh parchment, two new quills, ink, and her astronomy textbook, as well as a letter from her parents and her Herbology journal. Kennedy noticed the writing on the board and followed instructions by finding an empty telescope and taking a seat beside it. She withdrew from her tote bag everything but the letter and journal, and laid them out on her desk. She had chosen to come before sunrise because she had read that Mars was best seen in the early morning sky during sunrise. She planned to return later that evening around sunset to best view Venus. Kennedy sat looking through her telescope, trying to find an approximate location of Mars in comparison to where she expected the sun to rise. She knew that Mars should would appear low in the sky to the southeast of the sun. She watched as the first bit of sun appeared on the horizon. She adjusted her microscope and found the moderately bright orange planet almost exactly where she expected it to be. She sketched Mars carefully, trying to observe the scale between it and the stars around it so that she could compare it to Venus later on that evening and draw her sketches accurately in comparison to one another. She noted that although she could actually see the planet with the naked eye, the telescope allowed her to see much more detail, including the polar ice caps. After completing the sketch of Mars, Kennedy packed up her belongings and departed the astronomy lab. Kennedy returned just during sunset that evening and set her desk up just as it was earlier that morning. She tended to be a creature of habit so she even sat at the same telescope, which luckily was free when she arrived. She adjusted her telescope to view the area of sky low and in the west and waited for that moment just after sunset when Venus was expected to be in the best position for viewing. When the last rays of sun descended below the horizon, Kennedy observed Venus quite easily - it was easily outshining every other planet and star in the sky. She sketched this planet meticulously, though finding that it was much easier to sketch than Mars had been that morning, due to the atmospheric covering of the planet's surface. It was nearly all one opalescent color. The hardest part was drawing it in relation to the rest of its surroundings. She decided the best way to illustrate where it resided in the night sky was to draw its relationship to where the sun had been - within 47 degrees. Upon finishing this sketch, Kennedy packed her belongings up another time and headed out the door on her way to her Ravenclaw Study Group where she could do some homework.
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03-31-2007, 02:38 AM
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Hogwarts RPG Name: Jasmine Aurora Lumino Fifth Year Ministry RPG Name:
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Jasmine entered the Astronomy Lab, gave the busy professor a friendly smile, and quickly found an empty telescope. Taking out her quill and parchment she leaned forward and looked through the scope. OK A bit blurry... adjusting the focus, she finally got a clear image. Now Mars where are you? Slowly scanning galactic space, she concentrated on the bright spots of light that were not twinkling. Those she knew were planets. Seeing on large bright light that looked promising, she adjusted the focus until the planet Mars appeared in her lens. Ahhh.. There you are. Barely taking her eye off the lens she proceeded to sketch a half-way decent sketch of the 4th planet.
Leaning back and blinking a few times, she then looked through the scope again, this time in search of Venus. Scanning back and forth for about 5 minutes she finally saw it. It was rather pretty ,she thought. Sketching it as she had done the other, Jasmine soon had both sketches completed. Now all she had to do was write her story and she would be done.
Sighing and rubbing her eyes, she put her sketches away along with her quill. She would like to come here sometime when she had more time and just stargaze. She would have to remember to ask the professor if that was OK when she wasn't so busy. Standing up, she gathered her bookbag and made her way to the door, whispering a quiet,"Goodnight Professor." as she left.
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03-31-2007, 02:57 AM
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| Imp
Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Kobe, Japan
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Bri walked into the astronomy lab then smiled and bowed slightly to Professor Belle, who wasn't paying attention. Anxious to complete the assignment, Bri dashed to the nearest telescope and silently set down her bag. She fiddled and adjusted the telescope. A few minutes later, she stumbled upon Mars. "How pretty!" she thought to herself. Bri then opened her bag and pulled out her parchment notepad along with a soft pink/shimmery quill. It took her quite a while, and a few attempts, to draw Mars. She wanted to get it just right.
Over half an hour later, her Mars sketch was finished. She placed it neatly in her bag then put her eye to the telescope to look for Venus. This one was harder to find and took longer than Mars, but eventually it appeared. Bri once again took out her parchment and same quill and set to drawing. She was getting really tired, and thirsty, by this point so she didn't spend as long on her Venus sketch.
Since tomorrow was Saturday, she could wait to start working on her story. It was late and she wanted to get to bed! So she gathered up her bag and silently left the room, after nodding and smiling to Professor Belle of course.
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03-31-2007, 03:32 AM
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| Jarvey
Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: dancing on the stars
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Hogwarts RPG Name: Kirilia First |
Kirilia walked in and glanced at the black board. She nodded solemnly and took a seat next to Em. She grinned at her friend and then pulled out her astronomy text book to help her determine the position of the planets.
She fiddled around with the knobs on the telescope, twisting and pushing, occasionally checking her textbook. Finally, she found Mars and began to sketch it on a piece of parchment.
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03-31-2007, 12:08 PM
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| Lobalug
Join Date: Oct 2006
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Hogwarts RPG Name: Bess Lemon Third |
Without any ado,Bess took her seat and started to observe the planets carefully......she must sketch them accurately!!
After 20 minutes,her job was done.She grabbed her bag and went off to the Gryffindor common room to begin with the story.....
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03-31-2007, 12:14 PM
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| Firecrab
Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Rochester, NY
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Hogwarts RPG Name: Peyton Second Year |
Megan walked into the lab and sat down behind a telescope with drawing materials on her lap. She found the planets and began to draw. An hour later (Megan's a bad artist), Megan headed to the library to start writing the stories.
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03-31-2007, 02:03 PM
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| Bugbear
Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: In Haven
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| The REAL Sorting Hat: "Ravenclaw!" This monkey is bananas. Ariana walked in, her bag swinging behind her carelessly as she took in her surroundings. She hated looking through the telescopes but knw she had no choice. Looking for a quiet spot she at down and inspected her telescope, looking for any ink that would get in her eye or for any sign of tampering. Seeminly satisfied she pulled out her notebook and turned her telelscope towards the sky, looking for mars.
She soon found its rich red ground and smirked, 'ok now to sketch you out my dear planet.' She loved Mars, it was fasinating to her. As she took her eyes off the planet and began to sketch the outter areas she began to wonder if man would ever walk on her smooth bumpy surface. She noticed slight irreguarlities on its suface and made sure to sketch those out as well, just to make sure she had everything. Her telelscope began to go fuzzy and Ariana looked way, her eyes beginning to sting from the use. Checking her telescope over again and making a slight adjudstment, she put her eyes back and continued studying it, makigng slight additons to her sketch. When she was finally finished ,she sat back and loked at it. 'hmm...yes, that seems a right.' she thought to herself as she carefully put the sketch away and moved her telescope closer to Venus.
Checking to make sure her telelscope was aligned properly, Ariana than took another piece of paper and wrote on it "Venus" before taking a peek to see what she saw. What she saw almost blew here imagination away! The colours blended beautifully together, along with the rich soil of which Ariana was thrilled and a little mystified that she could see. Pulling her eyes awy from the planet, she began to draw its outline, including the sun which she would sketch later even if she didn't have too. Looking back at Venus, she noted how the dark and light colours seemed to blend together, swirling magestically without concenquence. Adjusting her telelscope so she could get a betetr look, Ariana quickly wrote where Venus was located and othe prudent information for her story later and went back top sketching.
Finally, after an hour and a half she was finished. Looking back at her work, she grinned happily and put her sketches away, carefully folding them so she could finish them in her dorm. Making sure the telescope was in its oringinal position so no student would be able to just spot venuw or mars, she put her stuff away and began to walk towards the door, thinking she'd finish quickly now that she had an idea about what to say. With a smile, she was gone.
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| Jarvey
Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: *thinking* can't remember i'll get back to you on that
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Hogwarts RPG Name: Em Second | Em saw Kirilia come in and sit next too her 'Hi' she mouthed she had just found Venus and was starting too sketch it
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03-31-2007, 03:51 PM
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| Mackled Malaclaw
Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: (CDT) GMT-5
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Hogwarts RPG Name: Asher Stinson Second Year Ministry RPG Name:
Zoe Ladasha Ministry Specialty Area | Molly entered the astronomy tower and sat her things down on a desk in the back. She saw the assignment, grabbed a telescope and found an empty place to set up. She wasn’t exactly sure how to position the telescope, but after watching several of the other students, she fumbled her way through the best she could.
She looked for what seemed like half an hour before she caught a glimpse of Mars. Molly quickly moved the telescope back to the left and centered the planet. She took out her sketch pad and started drawing what she saw.
After finishing her sketch of Mars, she went to work on finding Venus. When she saw it, she took out her pad again to draw the planet. After she finished her drawings, she neatly placed her telescope back in its proper place. She neatly packed up her drawings and headed of towards the library to start work on her story.
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03-31-2007, 05:40 PM
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| Jarvey
Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: *thinking* can't remember i'll get back to you on that
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Hogwarts RPG Name: Em Second | Em finished her sketch of Venus and decided too do her story at the Lake 'see you later Kirilia i'll be at the lake' she whispered and headed out the door
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04-01-2007, 02:00 AM
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Hogwarts RPG Name: Aurora Kali Rissa Third |
Aurora walked in to the lab and read the message on the board. She sat down in an empty seat and began to admire the stars. She loves the look of the planets and stars. It put her in a kind of peaceful state.
She located the planets and began to rough sketch them. She wrote details about each one so she could fill them in later. She wanted to research deeply about the planets before she decided which one she "wanted to live on." She nodded hello to Kennedy and headed out the door to the library.
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04-01-2007, 08:41 AM
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| Jarvey
Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: dancing on the stars
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Kirilia smiled and waved goodbye to Em as she twiddled her telescope to Venus. She sighed and began her Venus sketch.
Half an hour later she finished, she reset the telescope, gathered her things together and smiling at the professor on her way out, she made her way to the common room.
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| Lions Forever Devil's Girl Mooncalf
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Hogwarts RPG Name: Callie Hawkins Graduated Ministry RPG Name:
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Kerry entered the astronomy lab and read the instructions on the board. Kerry enjoyed searching the skies at night, so this task was going to be quite enjoyable for her.
Finding a telescope away from other students, Kerry sets her bag down and takes out a quill and parchment, placing it on a desk near the telescope. Settled in now, Kerry grabbed the telescope and put her eye up to it. She shuddered a bit at how cold the telescope was on her warm face.
Looking up, Kerry was happy to see it was a fairly clear night filled with stars. With all the stars shining bright in the sky, Kerry wondered if she would be able to differentiate the planets and the stars without help from her text book. She certainly wanted to give it a try on her own. Looking through the night sky, Kerry tried to remember what she read about the planets. "Hmmm," Kerry thought to herself. "I remember something about finding Venus in the west as soon as darkness falls. It's been a bit since darkness has fallen, but the west is a good place to start." Kerry said to herself as she turned her telescope into the west. As she did, Kerry began to see some familiar constellations. Their beauty distracted Kerry for a few minutes as she found herself staring off in the stars.
Refocusing, Kerry smiled as another familiar site came into view. She had found the planet Venus. She was pleasantly surprised to see that it must have been still early enough in the night that she could see the planet pretty clearly. Kerry reached over and began to sketch what she saw, careful to note the slight color differences of the planet, which to her- surely was showing some kind of topographical image on the planet. Kerry wondered what it was and made a note to herself to look it up when she began her homework - knowing this information might just help her write her story about life on the plaent.
After Kerry completed her sketching of the planet Venus, Kerry concentrated on doing the same for the planet Mars. This, Kerry thought, should be much easier to find then Venus. It was one of the smaller planets, and one of our closest neighbor planets, and in addition to all that it was known as the "red" planet, which should make the planet that much easier to find. Kerry breathed a sigh of relief to find she was right. Although she was surprised to see it was more to the east then she had thought. She thought she'd find it closer to Venus, but then again she knew that earth sort of lied in between the two planets, so somehow in her tired head it all made sense. Kerry rubbed her eyes, and carefully began to sketch the image she saw in the lense in front of her. Again, Kerry was sure to sketch any topograhpical details that she saw on the planet and noting to herself to look up exactly what those images were to help her complete the assignment.
When Kerry completed her sketches, she sighed with relief. While the night sky was brilliant, focusing on one object for so long, Kerry realized - can really mess with your eyes. Kerry packed up her parchment and quill into her bag. Slinging her bag over her shoulder, Kerry yawned and headed back to her common room for a good night's sleep.
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04-02-2007, 12:31 PM
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Sixth Year | ♥ Honeybee's puppy I B&B forever ♥ Sana entered the Lab and looked around the Class for a minute. Lots of students were already started thier work. She wished the professor and silently slips to the vacant seat with the telescope on. She put the bag aside and leaned a lil towards the Telescope to see the planets. Once she fixed her eyes with the correct angle on the eye piece of the Telescope.
She started to draw a picture of Venus. She wondered the image of Venus was looked like perfect ball in big size contains the Dust storm.Once she finished to sketched the Venus she was made sure the picture had came exactly what she had seen through the telescope.
Now she started to sketch the Mars pic. It was like in the colour combination of Dark orange with grey mix -up. She had seen the thin lines and small to lil big dots like a buttons on the Mars. Also it was looks like the Cyrstal ball with the smoke of Divination. She smiled to herself. She headed to finish her work.
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| Cockatrice
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Hogwarts RPG Name: Professor McFarlane Graduated | IndyEddie This post is for your information.
Yes, it's okay to take pictures off the net and send 'em that way. I know not everyone has a scanner.
(I've gotten a couple of PM's and emails about this so I thought I'd tell everyone)
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| Acromantula
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Suzy sits down at a telescope. She grabs a piece of paper and a pencil. She peers throught the telescope and finally finds Mars. She loks at all the different colors, and crevices. She startes to sketch it.
Then after shes done she starts looking for venus. Oh how she loves Venus. Its such a beautiful color. She finally finds it, and starts to sketch. She finishes up her sketches, and walks to the door to go to her dorm and finsih the rest of her homework.
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| Firecrab
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Hogwarts RPG Name: Cora Abbott Fifth Year Ministry RPG Name:
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Cora found an empty telescope and sat down next to it. She pulled her notebook out from her bag and placed it on her chair. Cora then positioned her telescope to find Venus. She knew without even looking at her chart which bright dot it was in the sky. It is usually the first object you see in the sky after the sun sets. It is usually the brightest object in the night sky beside the moon. Cora sketched the planet and then looked at her chart to find Mars.
After a couple of minutes she found Mars and reposistioned her telescope. She sketched the planet and then put the telescope back in the position it was in when she found. She picked up her bag and put her notebook back in it. She quietly walked back in the castle.
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