Recently, a vivid image of the "constellation map" broke the circle of friends, and even a lot of foreign students came to listen to He Zhongjiao's starry sky culture class, followed by the teacher, "look at the stars".
He Zhongjiao is a teacher at Zhejiang Gongshang University College of Information and Communication Technology, research direction is communication engineering, intelligent robotics, "Starry Night Culture" is a liberal arts course he opened. This general course from March 2009 to date, each semester is full of students.
Xiaohong, a junior in the School of Finance, said, "Mr. He's class claimed to throw out some humorous stems from time to time, and the 88 constellations were romantically interesting by him."
"In the northern hemisphere every year in the summer we can see Altair, Vega, Niushu star officer consists of 6 stars, located in the east bank of the Milky Way, the ancients called it 'Altair', 'Vega' 3 stars are located in the Niushu north. Oxus and Vega stars are collectively known as the Cowherd and the Weaver." He Zhongjiao said, the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar each year, the moon in the south of the cowherd weaving maiden, the Milky Way can not be seen because of the light of the moon, so the ancients imagined that the day the cowherd weaving maiden cross-country sky bridge to meet. This love story is derived from the star names of Altair and Vega.
Listening to the teacher, the students on the stage were wide-eyed and concentrated on him, as if listening to him tell a beautiful love story.
This is, He Zhongjiao pointed to the PPT Sirius to teach students to identify, "Hangzhou, March, rain almost every day intermittently in the rain, it is now 8:20 pm, the sky outside the window just enough dark, it is now a good time to look at the stars, which is the alternation of the winter and spring seasons, you can catch up to see the constellation Canis Major, Sirius and other constellations. "
He Zhongjiao was talking about Orion that day, and then he asked students to draw constellation diagrams and image maps.
"Mr. He was very vivid in class, with rich facial expressions." He Zhongjiao in the classroom, speaking to the subtle or enjoyable, his face will unconsciously smile, but also with a wealth of body movements, he can be excited to speak three classes in a row, and fully enjoy the classroom to bring him a sense of satisfaction.
He Zhongjiao's course is the main content of the spring, summer, fall and winter four different seasons of the starry sky characteristics, "in the different seasons we see the stars are very different, I will pick the various seasons of the visual more significant constellations to talk about, for example, in the spring of the angle of the star, that is, Virgo alpha is the first star of the angle of the star. This bright first magnitude star can be seen in the southeast sky on spring nights in the northern hemisphere."
"Mr. He's class is so romantic!" In the eyes of the students, the class is full of passion, the whole day dusty He Zhongjiao is like a kind and affectionate elders, privately, "Mr. He is really nice, like a friend, we all like to take his class and contact with him." Student Wang Rui To said.
He Zhongjiao has a strong interest in the stars in the sky since childhood. Since elementary school, he has been looking for astronomy books to read, and would also go to ask elders and friends. When he was in high school, he knew that there were two journals, "Astronomy Enthusiast" and "Popular Astronomy", and he read them almost without fail. This habit, he insisted on 15 years.
"For college students, imagination is a very important ability, through the classroom for students to draw star charts, constellation image map, can stimulate students' imagination." He Zhongjiao said, after the class, students interested in the stars, can have a direction and purpose combined with the ancient Chinese culture of the stars and constellations to in-depth study of related knowledge.