On July 8th, we were told by Carrie that the Yale Planetarium was open that night. Because that day was Tuesday, and the planetarium was open every Tuesday night. The planetarium is beside Science Hill, which fortunately is quite near the house we rented. So the Richys, Susan, Sunny and I we five walked there after we had our supper. After about 12 minutes' walk, we got to the planetarium where there were a lot of people waiting. We were told there was two shows every Tuesday night. The first is at 7:30, and the second is at 8:45. We waited for the second show. At 8:40, we were led into a big hall with a huge dome. Some of the audience sat on the chair, while some of them sat or even lied on the carpet. At 8:45, a beautiful young lady came in, and she opened the projector in the hall. Very soon millions of stars and the 12 constellations appeared on the dome. The young lady began those 12 constellations one by one. As she spoke very fast, and there were many jargons involved in her illustration, I only understood 30% of what she said. After that, she showed us a 3D film which lasted only 30 minutes and whose main idea was about black hole. All the slides and film were amazing. The numerous stars and the 12 constellations in the universe seemed to be in very near us and since it's a 3D film, we seemed to appear in the film,floating down as the black hole swirled in the film, flying as those stars moving fast and getting burned as the big sun shone brightly. It was a great visual shock to us! we really enjoyed it. After the film, we walked out to the observatory, on which there placed 3 telescopes. One of the telescopes, we were told, was even made in 1876, almost 140 years ago. We queued up to wait for our turns to observe the Saturn and the moon. With the help of the telescopes, we could see clearly the shining ring around the Saturn and the circular hills on the moon, which are quite similar to the pictures we saw on science magazines or TV. Tonight, we've really broaden our horizon and learned a lot.
Look! How marvelous those stars are! How I dreamed of flying to those stars and picked one down from the sky!
This is one scene in the 3D film. How beautiful the sky is!
That is the telescope made in 1876, through which we can observe the Saturn very clearly even today.
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