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INSTRUCTOR:

Welcome to week three. I really hope that your confidence is building now that you've had a chance to use Stellarium, and you've had a chance, I hope, to have a good study of the COAST telescope, as we did last week.

Next week, you'll be taking your first observations with the telescope. So this week, we really want to think about how we build up our observing plans. And think about the different objects that we can see in the night sky and the magnitudes that they have, how bright they are.

Personally, I really enjoy having a look at the Milky Way. It's a fantastic area of the sky to study. And you get a huge range of different objects that become visible to you as you look at it with the naked eye, with binoculars, and with a telescope. So I really hope that you take the opportunity to go and have a look at the Milky Way for yourself, certainly, with the naked eye. But if you've got a pair of binoculars, I really encourage you to get out there and have a good look