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Warm rays of the September afternoon sun leak into the Astronomy classroom as you enter. The desks are arranged in their usual semi circle to help created a more personal environment. Professor Flamsteed's desk is positioned in the “front” of the classroom with a large red velvet bag resembling that of a certain North Pole dwelling fellow's on top of it. On the blackboard is a magically enlarged poster that surely you have seen by now. Professor Flamsteed is not standing anywhere near his desk, nor the bag, but by one of the large open windows looking out at the Black Lake. Try to take a peek into the bag if you want, but at your own risk
So come on in and find your seat. Oh, and don’t forget to use the lint roller on the small table outside of the classroom next to the sign that reads, "Not to be used as a brush for your hair."
⌦Lesson Progression
▸ See what happened when you look inside the bag? Just ask Miss Wheatborn
▸ question 1 :: what are the differences between a plant and a star?
▸ question 2 :: what star is closest to earth? Oh, and you can all have lime green beards if you want
▸ question 3 :: what iS thing thiiiiiiiiiiiiiing?
▸ mini activity :: label the parts of the sun
▸ question 4 :: what myths do you know that involve the sun?
▸ myth buster! :: the truth behind Icarus & activity instructions
OOC: Opening this thread up two hours early because something came up and I might not be here at the scheduled 9 am time Please be sure you are familiar with Professor Flamsteed's rules BEFORE you post in this lesson. We will know if you haven't read them! All SnitchSeeker site rules apply.
This lesson has officially started! Please do not announce your character arriving late and just pretend like they have been in class all along. You are free to jump in any time and should use the lesson progression links to keep up.
Damon raised his hand and with a good amount of clarity attempted to give a reasonable answer "I'm Damon professor" He thought for a moment longer. "I suspect one aspect or difference of a planet vs a star is that a planet probably has a much longer lifespan then a star does. I've noticed stars in effect recycle themselves or totally go away and new ones join their place. So perhaps a lifespan difference." Damon finished giving his answer and listened to the other answers.
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"To start things off today, I would like us to go back to some basic definitions. Who can tell me ONE thing that is different between a planet and a star? Just one please so that others may have a chance to answer. Please raise your hand and state your name before answering so that I can learn everyone's name." He should have remembered to bring his name plaques with him. His photographic memory worked better with written words.]
Hehe.
His pet rock was missing.
Anyway...
Astronomy was okay, apart from all the talking that came from Professor Flamsteed. Professor-talk-a-lot. Today was no different, but at least the first question was a simple one. Theo raised his hand, not bothering to say his name because PLEASE, this guy should know Theodore Kinsley by now. "You can live on a planet and not a star." Well... "Most planets, anyway..." He paused and tapped his chin, "I think."
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What?! Wheatborn was GETTING points?!!!? How did that even make sense?
Anyway, moving on. To the difference between planets and stars. Er. Everyone was already saying the stuff that Sky had thought of first. Because, of course. Time to think a little deeper into the subject, then. "Some planets can substain life, while stars are too hot to do so." Wouldn't that be cool, though? Living on a star.
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The difference between a star and a planet. Hopefully this time Airey wasn't looking for a specific answer but just any general ideas that came into his students head's. An hopefully Tag would have a decent one. Slowly raising his hand Tag spoke "Aren't stars a bit more definite in knowing its a star while scientists have had controversy over deciding if a planet is truly a planet depending on its environment and the such?"
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Oh OH OH LESSON WAS STARING.
Benzi hastily grabbed his bag to take out the parchment, quill and ink and haphazardly set them on the desk. RIGHT. He was ready. Mummy would be super proud of him. Looking expectantly at the Professor, the eleven year old's grin diminished slightly as Professor Airey - because Professor Flimflam or whatever it was was too long - mentioned something that sounded like hummus. Hummus was a thing he'd eaten once in downtown London and he never wanted to go anywhere near it again.
Bleh.
BUT. Right. Astronomy.
Blinking at the question and took a moment to think. Mummy really liked Astronomy, so he actually knew quite a lot about it. This fact pleased him, and he raised his hand. "Benzi," he stated, "they're made different. Iss'ike, there's space clouds and they make stars but planets are made up of the leftovers... Kinda like orange juice, when you squeeze it the juice stuff comes out and that's the good bit and then the bits from the orange come and those just sorta float around. But they float around INSIDE the juice and planets don't go around wonderin' inside the star. But yeah, they're made different."
Cue PROUD GRIN. This would be going in this week's letter home. He'd tell Mummy, and she's be really pleased and everything will be great.
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Minnie could totally rock a beard, just saying. Ella did feel bad, though. The older badger had been through things and was probably not up for being an example at the moment. Airey seemed to realize she was upset, though, and generously gave her points which was nice of him. Thumbs up, Airey-face.
As for the difference between planets and stars, Ella could think of a few. Surely their temperature and light and things like that. She also couldn't help but thing of the quantity difference. "There are way more stars up there than planets." Way, wayyyy more.
Ah. So no hand-holding, then. Jake folded his arms across his chest instead and leaned back in his chair. Although he was a bit disappointed that Airey didn't understand the romantic qualities Astronomy had. Whether it was a classroom or not. Seriously, with his knowledge of space stuff, the professor could probably have girls lining up to hear him talk about stars. That was, like... romantic. Jake would have to inform Flamsteed of this fact. Because clearly the guy wasn't using his knowledge to his full advantage.
Anyway, though, for now the Prefect would be good and answer the question. He raised his hand, not bothering to announce his name because Flamsteed had just addressed him. "Planets have a revolution around a star, because a star's gravity is much higher than a planet's, which keeps the planet sort of... tied to its star in an elliptical orbit." Yeah?
Lucian swung his legs under his desk freely since they didn't reach the ground, singing in his head a tune he'd picked up from his friend back home, while writing his name on his parchment. When the lesson began he didn't look up. He could hear perfectly while concentrating on his name. Names were important. It's what set you apart from Lucys and Lucian. It's happened before.
His head perked up. Rocks? Where? Lucian liked throwing rocks in lakes. Or in any large body of water, really. He liked making them skip.
Okay. Maybe he should pay better attention now. He heard what his new classmates had to say. Geez. They were all smarty pants. He preferred the short and quick answers though, so he scribbled those down. Something his dad told him about planets and stars popped into his head. He wasn't done writing, but he still raised his hand. Wait...wait...there. "Lucian Blackwell," he said, "Planets are big enough to have their own gravity whereas stars are held and given their shape by their own gravity." Lucian rubbed the back of his neck. That sounded a lot better in his head. Promise.
"Pfft--pfffft--ha HA ha." He shouldn't be laughing. It was rude to Professor and Minerva. He really shouldn't but--itwasSOfunny! His hands covered his mouth to stop the giggles, and he tried to laugh as silently as he could. He then gasped for air and missed some of the educational speech, but he had calmed down for the important part of the class. He still snorted from time to time, but he was alright in general.
Anyways. Question. Yes.
"Forrest Charlton, Professor!" His hand was in the air. The man already knew his name, but he'd asked and Forrest wasn't going to deny his favourite professor. "Stars are always very hot, but planets' temperature depends on the distance to the closest star and their atmosphere."
Tora was glad that she had snatched her hand back from the bag while she still could. Even though she was considering using the "protego" spell to keep herself from growing a green beard, she decided that Professor Airey was most likely more skilled in whatever magic he used for the bag's defenses than her simple protego spell could be. So she did the wise thing and sat down.
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"To start things off today, I would like us to go back to some basic definitions. Who can tell me ONE thing that is different between a planet and a star? Just one please so that others may have a chance to answer. Please raise your hand and state your name before answering so that I can learn everyone's name." He should have remembered to bring his name plaques with him. His photographic memory worked better with written words.
Wait. Only one way? Tora could think of a million probably. Let's see. Which one would most other people not know? She had spent most of the summer reading up on Astronomy, her favorite subject, and was now even more glad that she had. She thought for a little bit, searching her memory for something fun to say when she had it! It was something that she was mostly sure was correct, not something she had actually read, but something she had deduced to be true. Here was the perfect place to test that deduction. She raised her hand and said, "A star gives off energy, but a planet does not. I guess this commonly comes in the form of light but it could also mean solar waves and stuff." she smiled a little. Ahh she loved space! It just put her in one the the best moods! Then she remembered the second part of Professor's question. "I'm Tora Gallaway, Second year, Ravenclaw." added on quickly.
Nigel could not help but laugh at That beard was pretty funny. Honestly. If Nigel had a beard like that. He would laugh at himself.
But now class has started. Planets and stars. The obvious answer was you could live on a Planet. But not everyone of those planets. Nigel still wished Pluto was a planet. Pluto was awesome.
"A Planet has an orbiting Moon"
Now the question was what has in that red bag. To cause Min to get the green beard.
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For a change Miss Abbi Campi was rather quiet. She was observing that was all, observing the classroom and the poster. Poor Pebbles! Not that she knew whom he was, but any lost pet was a sad pet. Poor thing! The next thing Abbi observed was how a girl just grew a green beard out of nowhere.
WAS SHE BECOMING HER INNER WITCH OR SOMETHING?
The little eleven year old was slightly scared, but ready to face any monsters if she needed to. Pity though she didn't because after some proper listening she figured out that the girl wasn't becoming her inner witch. The Professor had done that to her as a lesson.
Seee! She kept up to track rather fast but her mouth yeah it couldn't be kept on mute for too long. I mean that was after all impossible, you were dealing with a kid that had the energy of a gazillion batteries. A little bit longer, that all it took for Abbi to keep quiet and listen before she could burst her mouth open as well as shoot her hand up in the air.
"Hello Professor Airey!" BEAAAAAAAM. She was excited okay? "I'm Fairy Abbi Campi..And! And! Your question." She paused for a second with a head scratch. "Planets starts with the letter P! and Stars start with the letter S! Also Stars shine VERY brightly at night and Professor, I'm sorry about your pet. Had she spoken enough? Not really, no. Could she have answered better? Yes. But heeey these people knew what she did already. Like she totally knew there were more stars than planets. Psshht. Mind reading witches.
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"To start things off today, I would like us to go back to some basic definitions. Who can tell me ONE thing that is different between a planet and a star? Just one please so that others may have a chance to answer. Please raise your hand and state your name before answering so that I can learn everyone's name."
Planets and Stars! Awesome! Adi liked stars. So, erm one difference? Surrre. Adi raised his left hand. "Aditya Rehman,'' he said slowly and carefully to the Professor. It was certainly not Eddie Redmen, even though he found it quite funny. " Urrrn, stars twinkle. Planets don't do that, I think.''
Ah, professor. Jozsua gave the man a small smile and saluted back. “Professor, sir!” He replied like he was a private in the muggle army. Orrr... just Professor.. like the man just said..
Anyhow..
Onto the lesson..
Professor had lost his pet rock? Józsua let out a small guffaw not really understanding the joke, but finding it funny anyway.
He wanted to ask a few questions. Like how did the Prof know the rock was female? And how hard was it to train your pet rock not to go on your favourite rug? ..but he refrained, deciding to keep his head down for the first few lessons.
Soo.. yea..
Differences between planets and stars..
Józsua sat and listened to the other kids and then raised his hand. “Józsua Istvan, Professor. A star has its own light; a planet doesn't have light of it's own. Shines by reflecting the light of the sun.”
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This was the hard part now. Wasn't it?
Well, for her. She wasn't the one with a BEARD. Hogwarts was strange, though admittedly cool. Beard's were cool. Bristol could totally rock a beard .. not that she planned to get into trouble. It would be very silly to get into trouble this early into term, she didn't want to make a name for herself just yet. Her time would come.
SPEAKING OF .. it was learning time and answering question time. First, though, she needed to think of an answer to said question. The difference between a star and a planet? Well, she was living on one and not on the other, but she didn't think that was what he meant. UMMM. She quickly snuck a look in her massive textbook which she hadn't properly read yet."Bristol Haigh, Sir." That was her name done, hehe. "Plaaaaanets have low temperatures, in comparison to staaaaaars."
Correct? If not - blame the textbook.
Or her reading skills.
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"Hubris, class, will play into a discussion to come later on in today's lesson, so do keep this word in the back of your minds as we progress," he said as he walked to the center of the semicircle and flicked his wand towards the door to shut it.
Time to get officially started.
"Hubris aside for now...welcome to Astronomy NOT to be confused with Astrology! For those of you who do not know me yet, I am Professor Flamsteed and you may call me such or Professor Airey, but never sir if you will. As you can see by this poster and the other numerous ones I have about the school, my pet rock, Pebbles, is missing. If you see her anywhere, please inform me immediately. I miss her terribly," he said as he got things officially underway with just the slightest of manly lip quivering going on. He then cleared his throat and focused on the task at hand: teaching his lesson. "Some of you may be wondering why we are holding out lesson during the day when astronomy tends to deal more with the night sky, but I assure you that this time of day is perfect for what we will be studying today." Enough of a give away yet? It would be if they were paying attention enough. "To start things off today, I would like us to go back to some basic definitions. Who can tell me ONE thing that is different between a planet and a star? Just one please so that others may have a chance to answer. Please raise your hand and state your name before answering so that I can learn everyone's name." He should have remembered to bring his name plaques with him. His photographic memory worked better with written words.
OOC: This lesson has officially started! Please do not post your character arriving now or else risk loss of house points for your house or some other punishment that Airey feels is appropriate. If you are joining us now, please just pretend as though your character has been here all along
Remember to say just ONE thing that your character sees as a difference between the two. Points will not be rewarded solely for correct answers <3
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Taylor raised her hand, "Taylor McIntyre, Professor." She smiled then tilted her head, looking at him. "Stars generate light but planets don't, right?" Tay was pretty sure that she was right but she wasn't sure. Taylor fiddled with the quill that was in her hands, waiting to see what the professor would say as well as waiting to hear what everyone else says about planets and stars. She thought the professor made the class fun so she didn't mind paying attention... though being in Ravenclaw, you kind of are expected to pay attention 100% of the time.
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It was funny how the delinting process outside astronomy did not irk Sarah as much as the process she had to undertake before going to Bellaire's class. Maybe because she could use a delinter to stop the static on her stockings. After delinting she entered, it seemed that things had happened since she had been in last. "Hello Professor" she said. "I guess you have not found pebbles. I will keep a look out for him and perhaps join the search party". It was more about the professor then the pet rock. She did not care for a pet rock, yet the professor seemed really attatched to it and Sarah wanted to see him happy again. "Have you tried Accio? Maybe sent an owl to look for it?" She asked. Minnie had a beard. "that is a great beard Minnie, Reminds me of a muggle book my grandma read to me as a kid. When a girl made up her own hair-growth thing for her father and he grew grass on his head.". Then Minnie looked like she was about to cry so Sarah walked over to the prefect and put her arms around her. She did think that there had to be consequences, yet embarressing someone was kind of harsh. "Professor, is it possible that Minnie can get that beard removed. I think all of us have learnt our lesson already"
While Airey himself had been laughing himself - although muffled - he pulled himself together and threw some very pointed looks at those who were laughing a little more loudly than they should.
"Miss Wheatborn just demonstrated to us, Miss Castell, in a rather abstract way the notion of hubris. You see, the bag on my desk clearly belongs to me and there is a reason that I have things hidden in a bag and not on display for the class to see. Miss Wheatborn allowed her curiosity to get the best of her and subconsciously assumed that she could be above the laws of my classroom - overconfidence perhaps - and looked in the bag. Now, all violations come with consequences, which is why she has sprouted that beard." There was a reason for this little speech and it was NOT to make the Hufflepuff prefect feel horrible.
Which it looked like he had succeeded in doing anyway, but he THANKFULLY had not noticed that just yet.
"Miss Wheatborn, take 5 points for your unwilling demonstration," and then he met her eyes and saw...wet. BLAZING COMETS THERE WERE TEARS IN HIS CLASSROOM! Internally hitting the panic button inside his head, he just barely heard her whisper an apology. "And take another 5 points for being a good sport about it." And not completely turning on the waterworks or storming out of the classroom...or throwing a shoe at him.
Had happened to him once. True story.
His attention then moved to Miss Edwards when she spoke. "Yes yes, I suppose you are right," he said as he gave his wand a flick in the green bearded girl's direction and removed it from her face. Yellow suited her better anyway. "You should take your seat now, Miss Wheatborn." And he gave the trap on her hand a tap to banish it as well.
"Hubris, class, will play into a discussion to come later on in today's lesson, so do keep this word in the back of your minds as we progress," he said as he walked to the center of the semicircle and flicked his wand towards the door to shut it.
Time to get officially started.
"Hubris aside for now...welcome to Astronomy NOT to be confused with Astrology! For those of you who do not know me yet, I am Professor Flamsteed and you may call me such or Professor Airey, but never sir if you will. As you can see by this poster and the other numerous ones I have about the school, my pet rock, Pebbles, is missing. If you see her anywhere, please inform me immediately. I miss her terribly," he said as he got things officially underway with just the slightest of manly lip quivering going on. He then cleared his throat and focused on the task at hand: teaching his lesson. "Some of you may be wondering why we are holding out lesson during the day when astronomy tends to deal more with the night sky, but I assure you that this time of day is perfect for what we will be studying today." Enough of a give away yet? It would be if they were paying attention enough. "To start things off today, I would like us to go back to some basic definitions. Who can tell me ONE thing that is different between a planet and a star? Just one please so that others may have a chance to answer. Please raise your hand and state your name before answering so that I can learn everyone's name." He should have remembered to bring his name plaques with him. His photographic memory worked better with written words.
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Wade was still blinking at the awesome pickle-like beard of Min. Could he touch it? Probably not, seeing how Min was feeling about all this, "Hey, let's sit down." He lightly took her arm, since her hands were preoccupied and all, to where he was sitting so she was next to him now. He also smiled a little at her. She got ten points for having a pickle beard. That was cool, to him.
Well, since class was already starting. Guess now was the time for Wade to give his attention. Nodding about the missing case of Pebbles the rock, Wade already agreed to help out so it was class time.
The difference between a star and planet.. His brows furrowed. Since his OWLs, he only retained so much.. He knew the sun as their closest star and of course the planets.. Not too much though, but enough to raise his hand, "Wade...Potter, sir." Since he didn't mind at all whether people said his full last name or not, he still was a Potter, after all. The family tree in his pocket watch said so. Anyways, with his answer. "Well.. with a star like our sun. We can't stare at it as long as we can with planets." That was true.. right?
Minerva was going to leave... She really was, this was not how she wanted to start the term. Not has Prefect and not after last term, but as she stepped to go she felt arms around her. What was... she couldn't help but feel lucky to have a friend hug her at the moment. This was nice of Sarah to do really nice. As everyone else even her little badgers she would do anything for and her suppose to be little brother laughed at her. "Thanks" She managed just as she heard the professor talk about something about hubris. What the blazing saddles was that.
Minerva didn't even care at this point what that was but her eyes shot up as he said about giving her points. Her hearing had to been screwed up to. Was that another trick he had done. She was most likely losing five points for being dumb not gaining, but then his look and he said five more. Really? She didn't deserve them though. "I'.. are you sure professor? " Really she wanted them of course, but she felt awkward at that moment. "Thank you" She sniffled trying to push back any more tears that tried to escape with her humiliation.
Nodding she thanked him again just as she felt a hand go around her arm. Looking up she gave Wade a thank you look and followed him. As the finger traps lifted and disappeared she put her hand over his and squeezed it a tad, "Thanks" Then she sat down pulling out her parchment and tried to focus on class. Wiping her face to get rid of any wet that had slipped from her eyes while no one was hopefully paying any attention to her.
Listen to Professor Flamsteed start class she couldn't help but still feel mortified, but tried to push past it and raised her hand. With a shaky and quiet voice she answered. "Minerva Wheatborn" which he knew of course, "Stars undergo nuclear reactions that burn hydrogen in their cores, where plants do not do this." She had been reading a little bit this summer to hopefully continue doing better in the class.
Aw the professor was missing his pet rock? That is horrible. Hopefully it will find his way home. He couldn't imagine if he lost his pet. Anyways back to business but Kace would notify the Professor if he found his pet rock for sure! Then he heard the professor ask a question....What was the difference between a star and a planet? Hmm.....Kace racked in his brain cells for this answer. He was still on summer vacation mode.
When he finally got an answer ready, he raised his hand. "Kace Lecium." he stated his name. He hoped he remembered him. "Professor the difference between the stars and planets are their size. I mean when you look into the sky they seem SOO tiny. But when you see planets they seem huge!" he nodded. He gave the answer his best shot.
So far Minnie had been given a green beard and a pet rock was missing. If all classes were as entertaining as this one was, maybe Chris would actually attend all of his class...maybe.
Now that class had started, Christopher was surprised, yet again, to find that he actually knew the answer the professor's question. Or at least, he thought he did? Raising his hand, he answered a little nervously, "Well the sun is a star...and it's on fire and Earth is a planet...and it's not so...stars are on fire and planets aren't?" He didn't know much about stars that weren't the sun but he felt his answer made perfect sense anyhow.
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Laura looked at the Professor and smiled. "A planet can have someone living on it, where as I don't think anyone could live on a star." Laura hadn't heard of there being life on a star.
Clever West is clever. Because he was simplifying things, yeah? Hopefully, otherwise she'd be completely worried about him.
Now, back to the question Professor Flamsteed asked, for she wasn't going to take part in any search party and didn't need to listen to his words on Pebbles (we love you, Airey, but not that much, he DID let her go, something Lottie would have NEVER done), the girl raised her hand after a lot few answers.
"When considering stargazing...," yes, this was necessary to point out, "...given the reactions happening within its core, the stars appear to twinkle...," APPEAR, OKAY? APPEAR, BUT THEY DO NOT TWINKLE, "...whereas planet do NOT," since they don't emit their own light and only reflect others'.
So, fixed lights equals planets, twinkle lights equals stars. Also, was the sun being on fire a metaphor for high temperature? If so, then awesome!
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Caleb listened to all the older kids answer and patiently waited with his hand high in the air. When it finally got to his turn, he grinned before getting into his answer.
"Well, first off, I'm Caleb Newell, Professor," he said. Yeah, memorize that name Professor. Newell will be a name of GREAT IMPORTANCE once again! "And one difference between a planet and a star is that stars can actually die. Like one day they're just burning out there, chillin in the solar system and living their star life, and then they just explode. Sometimes the explosion is so crazy, it makes a BLACK HOLE," he said, emphasizing his voice to show just how AWESOME that was.
And he was pretty positive planets didn't do that. If they did, it was news to him.
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Jezz bit her lip and returned a small smile to the Professor. She pulled out all her required materials and watched as the first few events of the class began to unfold. She was quite glad she hadn't opened the bag to peek inside. Then again she wasn't comfortable invading other peoples privacy.
She listened intently and then gave the question some small thought. Small because before she could think upon it anymore her hand shot up in the air and she said, "Stars eventually fade, or die." It was a simple answer and she felt silly for giving it. Wasn't it an accurate answer to begin with. Stars did eventually flare out but did planets die some how?
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"Hubris aside for now...welcome to Astronomy NOT to be confused with Astrology! For those of you who do not know me yet, I am Professor Flamsteed and you may call me such or Professor Airey, but never sir if you will. As you can see by this poster and the other numerous ones I have about the school, my pet rock, Pebbles, is missing. If you see her anywhere, please inform me immediately. I miss her terribly," he said as he got things officially underway with just the slightest of manly lip quivering going on. He then cleared his throat and focused on the task at hand: teaching his lesson. "Some of you may be wondering why we are holding out lesson during the day when astronomy tends to deal more with the night sky, but I assure you that this time of day is perfect for what we will be studying today." Enough of a give away yet? It would be if they were paying attention enough. "To start things off today, I would like us to go back to some basic definitions. Who can tell me ONE thing that is different between a planet and a star? Just one please so that others may have a chance to answer. Please raise your hand and state your name before answering so that I can learn everyone's name." He should have remembered to bring his name plaques with him. His photographic memory worked better with written words.
Penelope had briefly considered looking in the bag at beginning since Flamsteed wasn't guarding it but then figured they'd probably find out what was inside soon anyway, so she'd simply taken her seat instead. And now of course she was glad she hadn't looked. She did not need a beard, okay? Her boyfriend could have one, but she didn't want it on herself. Her own hair was already long enough as it was, she didn't need MORE hair on her face.
So moving on from that, class started and stuff and there were the usual introductions for the new students, and then the first question was asked. Difference between planets and stars? Hm. There were lots of differences, but a lot of the other students had already spoken about them. Maybe there was something else she could add though...
Oh hey, she'd thought of something. Maybe. Sorta. So her hand was raised. "You already know my name, professor." Or he SHOULD by now, at least. He usually cheered for her at Quidditch games, and he surely hadn't forgotten it over the summer. So she didn't need to repeat it for him, did she? "But anyway, I guess another difference between planets and stars is that we can use stars to tell directions and stuff, but we don't really use planets for that. Like with Polaris, it's three stars and we can use it to find which way is north, and constellations kinda help find it too, but we don't really have a constellation of planets or a planet Polaris to do that with." If that made sense.
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No hand holding. Laaaaaame. But since the class was officially started now, she'd let it slide without a fight.
Something different between stars and planets. Well... there were a lot of differences. In fact, it was more like... what was the same would be a better question.
She raised her hand. "When you look at a planet with a telescope, you get more detail." Of course, that didn't just apply to planets, since the same thing happened when you looked at the moon. "When you look at stars, you can see like... fuzzy rings. They're called... Airy...s? I think. Airy disks." That sounded right.
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