Teachers' Thursday Talk

The talk went fairly well yesterday, though not quite as well as the one I gave at the UMD Observatory a couple weeks ago. There was one question that I couldn't answer to my satisfaction, so I'm going to have to think that one over, especially if I give this talk again someday.

Unfortunately, the threat of snow kept the in-house audience very small (a teacher with two of her students, two others, and the museum people). On the other hand, the talk was webcast to several satellite sites in West Virginia, New York, Maryland, and Mississippi, and the AV guy estimated that we had a total audience of about 100 people. So, it wasn't a waste – not like the X-ray astronomy talk I gave last year at the UMD Observatory to three people (plus observatory volunteers).