My name is Cameron Klingelhoefer and I have an extreme passion for the outdoors. I love to hunt and fish which is one reason I have become interested in learning more about our universe because of the navigation tool it is able to offer. My only experience with astronomy is locating the northern star which has personally become very useful during some hunting trips in the Colorado mountains. I am attending the University of Nebraska at Kearney in which I will major in Criminal Justice with a minor in Biology. I chose this field of study to teach,explore, and enforce the valuable resources that often get overlooked daily.
What I hope to get out of Astronomy 210 is a better understanding of why certain events happen as they do. What causes a black hole? Why do the northern lights produce the colors they do? How does a meteor shower occur? Our universe is so complex but yet these simple questions are unknown to an “Average Joe” as myself.
There are two things that have particularly fascinated me and they are shooting stars and northern lights. I have spent numerous hours looking into the night sky to catch a glimpse of a shooting star. I’ve been told they can be as small as a gran of sand but yet can produce a light visible thousands, possible millions?, of miles away. Next is the northern lights which I have been able to experience from Nebraska. It is a surreal image that will be forever embedded into my memory.
Astronomy 