For your long term assignment you will be creating and maintaining your very own star in the astrophysics laboratory. There are several different classifications of stars, but you all will be creating yellow stars for this assignment.

A minimum of 8 posts is required to be eligible for full points.

⌦ how do I create & take care of my star?
The first thing you MUST do EACH time you enter the laboratory is to put on your white lab coat and put on your protective goggles - both of these are in a closet to the right as you enter.

Also, never EVER take your star in a jar out of the laboratory - not even when you have finished taking care of it. When you are done please just leave it on the counter in the laboratory and I will take care of the rest.

▸getting started

• write your name on a label and place it on your jar
• clean your jar - Scourgify & Tergeo work best
• add one table spoon of powdered helium & hydrogen each to the jar and put the lid on it
• perform Fingere Elementi to change the powdered elements into gases. The two gases will compress on their own within the jar to produce a star.

▸taking care of your star

• you should use the following spells to care for your star.
  • ⌦spell to control temperature
    your star will turn blue when it is too hot & red when it is too cold
    ▸incantation :: Dextrini Potitus
    ▸wand movement :: jab with a flick upwards to increase and flick downward to decrease
  • ⌦spell to increase helium
    your star will glow red when there is too much helium
    ▸incantation :: Cumugasalis
    ▸wand movement :: two flicks
  • ⌦spell to decrease helium
    your star will glow red when there is too much helium
    ▸incantation :: Deminugasalis
    ▸wand movement :: two flicks
  • ⌦spell to increase hydrogen
    your star will begin to glow white when it is running out of hydrogen
    ▸incantation :: Crescere Hydrogenenii
    ▸wand movement :: tight circle drawn in the air followed by a jab. Circle movement on the Crescere and jab on Hydrogenenii
• name your star
• sing to your star
• just show your star some looooooove - BE CREATIVE!

If your star turns black then it is dead and you will have to start the assignment over. Please come see me in my office if this happens to you. And no, you will not lose house points if this happens to you.
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⌦ this assignment is due by the beginning of the final Astronomy lesson which begins March 11th
Please read this post for new due date

You do NOT have to have participated in lesson one to do this assignment. Simply pretend that you were there.

This long term assignment will also count as your final and be worth up to 50 points.

Once you have completed all your posts please PM me, sweetpinkpixie, the links to all your posts along with the same information required for homework submissions as stated in the Astronomy & Space Navigation.