June is our farewell song

Chapter 19 Stargazing Special Training
"The first session." On the next afternoon, in the activity room of the Literature Club, Jiang Zifeng gently tapped the whiteboard behind him with a red ink pen, and her long black hair shone in the golden sunlight. The stargazing meeting officially begins."

"Ula..." Gu Yuan clapped his hands and echoed, and then asked his question, "So, what are you going to do?"

"Because the Astronomical Society's request for drafts is the first official task of the Society this semester, it must be treated with caution." Jiang Zifeng nodded gently and said, "Except for the promotional drafts that Gu Yuan will provide, you Several club members who have signed up to participate in the meteor shower observation activities need to submit their own stargazing impressions, and a popular science article about stargazing, each of which must not be less than [-] words."

"A thousand words? Two articles? Everyone?! I protest!"

Qi Yu raised his right hand high.

"Protest is ineffective."

Teacher Chen Ge did not know when he stood on the side of the activity room, and replied while flipping through the books on the bookshelf.

"There are too few activities in the literature club. Taking the annual school magazine as the only task does not conform to the setting of two semesters in one academic year. Look at you, all of you are idle, not doing business, drinking tea and eating here every day. dessert."

The sweet-scented osmanthus cake that Gu Yuan held in his hand had already been brought to his mouth, and when he heard Chen Ge's words, his mouth, which was about to close, froze in mid-air, neither eating nor not eating.

"Teacher Chen Ge's idea is to take advantage of this opportunity to publish a special issue of Stargazing, which has been approved by the Moral Education Office, but the specific content has not yet been finalized. If you have anything you want to do or need, please do so first. It will be recorded uniformly and submitted for approval at the end," Jiang Zifeng said.

"Is anything ok?"

"Anything is fine."

"Want this!"

Gu Yuan put the "China National Geographic" magazine in his hand on the table. Because it is the meteor shower observation season recently, National Geographic also published an astronomy column accordingly. The illustration of the colored page that Gu Yuan opened Above is a conceptual drawing of a giant radio telescope.

"FAST (Five-hundred-meter Aperture Sphericalradio Telescope), a 500-meter-aperture spherical radio telescope is located in the karst depression in Dawodang, Kedu Town, Pingtang County, Qiannan Buyi and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou Province. The project is a major national science and technology infrastructure," Sky Eye "The project consists of active reflector system, feed support system, measurement and control system, receiver and terminal, and observation base.

"Known as China's Sky Eye, it was conceived by Chinese astronomer Nan Rendong in 1994 and led by the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. It has my country's independent intellectual property rights, the world's largest single-aperture, and the most sensitive radio telescope. The comprehensive performance is famous. ten times the size of the radio telescope Arecibo,"

"turn down."

Teacher Chen Ge smiled and tapped the dark blue notebook on Gu Yuan's head precisely.

"...Aren't you free to say anything?"

"The association has a budget, and at any rate, please say something more practical, please?"

"How much is the budget?" Liu Qingsi asked curiously.

"This is the account book." Jiang Zifeng took out a book with a pink cover from the bag on the chair and handed it to everyone.

"..."

Liu Qingsi, Qi Yu, Gu Yuan, Feng Ziqiu, the four of them made up a hill, looked at the last number on the ledger, and raised their heads dully.

"Even if you show this expression, the budget will not increase." Chen Ge said.

Jiang Zifeng continued to nod her head lightly, like a slender tumbler.

"How could this be, is this too little?"

"Because neither the Astronomy Club nor the Literature Club has any outstanding results across the country." Teacher Chen Ge said in an old spirit.

"If some of you have participated in a national competition or won some awards in some competitions, or have any group activities that have won provincial and above titles, clubs that have experienced such activities in recent years, the school A higher budget would be approved."

"For example, the cheerleading team established the year before last, because their results in the national competitions are getting better every year, so their sound equipment and training venues are all arranged by the school, and they spend a lot of money, but those guys It doesn't bother me at all."

"So it's like this..." Gu Yuan let out a sigh of relief, and buried his head in the embrace of "Chinese National Geographic".

"So, if you want to get enough funds to do what you want to do, you must show enough results." Chen Ge gently flicked the bangs on his forehead, "If this astronomy column can be published Get a good response from the school and even the city, and I can guarantee you a nice extra budget."

"But... none of the three of us have any experience observing stars..."

Liu Qingsi pursed her lips lightly, and her willow eyebrows were slightly intertwined.

The gazes of Qi Yu, Jiang Zifeng, and Feng Ziqiu once again converged on Gu Yuan who was flipping through the photos of Xinghai in the magazine.

"Forehead……"

Feeling the eyes of everyone, it was obviously the hot and dry weather at the end of September, but Gu Yuan suddenly had goosebumps on his arms.

"You... why are you all looking at me?"

"Cough cough...cough!" Jiang Zifeng cleared his throat, "Gu Yuan, why don't you give everyone a stargazing training?"

"Stargazing training? Me? Wait..."

Before Gu Yuan could say the next thing, Chen Ge put his arms around his neck with a smile, and whispered in his ear: "Last time..., I took a photo."

"????" Gu Yuan's eyes instantly straightened.

"Now, do you have any other comments?"

"Mmm~~~~~" Gu Yuan hastily shook his head repeatedly.

"In other words, are you willing to give everyone a detailed stargazing training?"

"Mmm~~~~~" Gu Yuan nodded repeatedly like a chicken pecking at rice.

"very good."

Saturday night.

Gu Yuan sat cross-legged on the bed, holding a square blue pillow in his hand, and stared at the three guys standing in his room with complicated eyes.

Feng Ziqiu wore a black peaked cap, and carried a bulging sports backpack with unknown contents on his shoulders. He looked like a mountaineer going hiking.

Liu Qingsi was wearing a long blue printed dress, and between the thumb and forefinger of her right hand was a book with an unclear title, which was in Gu Yuan's impression.All her clothes seemed to be of the same colour, differing only in style and shape.

Qi Yu didn't mean to treat himself as an outsider at all, he stood in front of his piano and looked around curiously.

"that……"

Gu Yuan stretched out his finger to a long tube-shaped object supported by a bracket on the balcony in the room. Before he could say anything, he saw the confused gazes of three people looking at him at the same time, and his blood pressure was instantly full.

"...Do you know how to use an astronomical telescope?"

"do not know."

Both Liu Qingsi and Feng Ziqiu shook their heads resolutely, but Qi Yu's eyes lit up with a different look.

"Know a thing or two."

The girl nodded confidently.

"Then trouble you, find the position of Mars in the night sky."

"Eh? That... I..."

"Hmm..." Gu Yuan hugged the pillow and let out a long sigh, "I knew it."

"hey-hey……"

Qi Yu touched his head and stuck out his tongue with a smile.

"Let me demonstrate this time." Gu Yuan threw the pillow on the head of the bed, and then jumped out of the bed lightly, "Although meteor shower observation does not require the use of astronomical telescopes, but if you want to write an article about astronomical observation Popular science, it is still necessary to know the basic methods of astronomical telescopes."

"Star-seeking is the foundation of the basics, but that doesn't mean it doesn't require skills." Gu Yuan began to adjust a sight-like object attached to the long silver-white cylindrical object.

"Well, wait, what does Xun Xing mean?" Feng Ziqiu asked.

"It is to let the stars enter the field of view of the telescope. Because the magnification of the astronomical telescope is very high, the field of view is correspondingly very narrow. Therefore, to observe the stars, you must first adjust the approximate orientation accurately."

"Then how do you know the approximate direction?" Liu Qingsi asked.

"First of all, of course, remember the approximate star map and know the positions of some important stars in each season, but this is what you really need to operate." Gu Yuan aimed his right eye at the sight on the main body of the telescope , "This is called a star finder, and it is a tool for visually finding stars. Of course, before using it, the optical axes of the telescope and the star finder must be adjusted to be parallel to each other. Well, let's take a look."

Until a dark red sphere appeared in the field of vision, Gu Yuan stepped aside and made room for others.

"Wow! Really! Awesome!"

Feng Ziqiu stared at the eyepiece with one eye, and immediately gave Gu Yuan a thumbs up.

"Let me see it too, let me see it too." After Ziqiu stepped aside, Qi Yu couldn't wait to lie down on the eyepiece, "Wow - it looks like an expired meat muffin..."

"What magical metaphors are you talking about..."

"Can I take a look too?" Liu Qingsi asked.

"Of course, please."

"..."

After a brief silence.

"Can't see anything?"

"Eh... due to the rotation of the earth, it will be out of control after a while, wait a minute, I'll adjust it again." Gu Yuan looked at the eyepiece and gently twisted the adjustment nut, "Okay, that's it, please."

"I see!" Liu Qingsi let out a soft cry of joy.

"However, it is too troublesome to adjust every time..." Qi Yu said.

"Of course there are motorized automatic finder telescopes."

"Then why not buy one?"

"Wow——" Gu Yuan pulled out a magazine from under his pillow, and on the opened page was the price list of various astronomical telescopes.

"One, ten, one hundred, one thousand, ten thousand... so expensive?!" Feng Ziqiu exclaimed as he counted the 9 behind the string of numbers.

"As the saying goes, stargazing ruins one's life." Gu Yuan shrugged.

(End of this chapter)