Published: January 15, 2006
Ms. Hemphill attended the January AAS meeting in Washington D.C., where she was able to meet her teaching colleagues and others involved in the program. Ms. Hemphill learned about infrared astronomy and technology, and about the concepts and skills which are necessary to contribute to the group project. She also learned how to use the FLIR thermal imaging camera and how it could be used in the classroom.
Ms. Hemphill introduced spectra to about half of her classes. She was able to introduced the idea of "seeing" in different wavelengths and used some of the IR images obtained at the pre-AAS meeting in the class presentations. She also downloaded six images of the sun in different wavelengths to highlight that different features become apparent at different wavelengths.