Summary
Gig Harbor High School students demonstrated the high school’s observational-astronomy program and district staff outlined expanding robotics and AI work at the Peninsula School District Board of Directors meeting on Jan. 21, 2025.
Gig Harbor High School students demonstrated the high school’s observational-astronomy program and district staff outlined expanding robotics and AI work at the Peninsula School District Board of Directors meeting on Jan. 21, 2025.
The student team showed colorized, stacked images of deep-space objects and described the technical process used to capture them. Seamus Roberts, a Gig Harbor student who presented the images, said the program uses narrowband filters and long exposures and called the results “what we believe is Hubble quality imagery.” Mia (student presenter) explained that each gas — hydrogen alpha, sulfur and oxygen — is…