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By ALFRED BALK
Once, if a youth headed outdoors for an evening of
moon-watching, it was strictly the soft-lights and
sweet-music variety. These days, however, it's possible
there'll be no music but a weird beep-beeping; his closest
companions will be a sky chart and telescope; even the
moon itself will be different an earth satellite.
There's a growing craze among teen-agers to moon-gaze.
Quite possibly just for fun. But also, to add to their own
knowledge and to the nation's as satellite-spotters.
You may have had little interest in the sky until recently.
Youngsters probably had even less. But suddenly, after
the launching of Explorers and Sputniks and the imminent
venture of man himself into space, that's all changed. At
schools, libraries, planetariums, or at home, youngsters are
forming amateur astronomy groups, scavenging telescopes
and other equipment, and learning about outer space.
Some 150 teen-agers, for instance, make up one of the
largest clubs, the San Fernando Valley Moon-watch Team
in Chatsworth, Calif. So active have they become that
cowboy crooner Roy Rogers, mayor of Chatsworth, and his
wife Dale Evans have dropped in to catch up on all the
news of cowhands on Mars. -
An all-teen-age group at Millbrook, N.Y., was watching
as eagerly as adult scientists throughout the world for the
final tumble of Russia's dog-carrying Sputnik II. Three
tracking stations made important sightings of the satellite's
last moments including Millbrook's homemade observatory.
It's the same story across the country. You can't go far
without encountering a junior astronomy group. Why?
"There has been tremendous publicity about satellites
and space," says Leon Campbell, Jr., of the Smithsonian
Astrophysical Laboratory. "Tracking a satellite is a chal
lenging, practical objective." So wholeheartedly have
youths pitched in that during the International Geophysical
Year more than 500 of the 8,000 official moon-watch person
nel were teen-agers, Campbell estimates.
It takes little to start a club these days. Top science
students and their teachers, leading amateur astronomers, or
engineers and scientists from industry provide the know
how for many such groups. About $50 buys a telescope
of acceptable quality. Star maps and guidebooks are avail
able in libraries and at schools, and astronomy magazines
report heavenly goings-on.
Civic clubs, business, and industrial firms often help the
youths purchase equipment. The San Fernando Valley club,
one of the more fortunate, has some $6,000 worth of devices
financed by 20 sponsors, ranging from Lockheed Aircraft
to a Kiwanis Club.
The base of operation may be a school, museum, observa
tory or somebody's yard. In Brooklyn, the public library
is headquarters for a club. In Chicago, Adler Planetarium
is the site of an all-youth moon-watch team, and in New
Orleans, it's Holy Cross High School.
In most cases, with some adult help to get them started,
clubs are able to make a little ingenuity go a long way.
Millbrook's observatory is nothing but a converted silo top
mounted on rollers bought at a hardware store. A 12-inch
reflecting telescope was made partly from scrap, its coun
terbalance from ordinary water pipe; it is turned by a
small motor that once controlled drafts on a furnace.
Actually, an observatory isn't absolutely necessary only
telescopes, and these need not be expensive.
To some, sky-watching may seem of limited value.
Eddie Rickenbacker, however, the famed flyer who almost
died on a raft in the Pacific after a plane crash, credits his
survival, in part, to knowledge of navigating by the stars.
Astronomy clubs have proved tremendous antidelin
quency forces. Some also have turned lackadaisical
students into interested, hard-working ones. They inspire
many by the companionship with bright youths who inevi
tably join these organizations.
"There's much in astronomy of real interest to youngsters
if they're allowed to participate in some way," says Albert
Shatzel, director of Chicago's Adler Planetarium. "This is
the perfect time to become interested in studying the sky
and outer space."
Many junior astronomers later do nothing more scientific
than filling a fountain pen, but all find the experience
helpful. And some go on to brilliant scientific careers.
Clyde Tombaugh, who discovered the planet Pluto in 1930,
got interested in astronomy as a youth by peering through a
homemade telescope mounted on parts from a cream
separator and an old auto.
In any case, there's seldom a dull moment among young
moon-watchers. One, getting convention-minded, recently
asked his mother, "May I go to the Astronomy Preven
tion?" Another, explaining where he had been, said, "I
was out observating."
That's moon-watching, space-age style!
Want to Be a
Moon-Watcher?
It's easy to add astronomy to your list of hobbies. If there's an observatory
or planetarium nearby, probably an informal hobby group already exists. If
not, science teachers, scientists in industry, or even a librarian who has astron
omy books can help you get a club started.
Junior astronomical societies exist in a great many cities, and all welcome
new members.
Information about their activities is listed by Sky and Telescope Magazine,
Harvard College Observatory, 60 Garden St., Cambridge 38, Mass.; or The
Astronomical League, Science Service Building, Washington 6, D.C.
Family Weekly. April 1. I960