Back when Joey Sellers, a philosophy major, got a student job at the Lake Afton Observatory, he said he possessed scarce knowledge regarding astronomy. However, he soon found he had an ability to explain the vast characteristics of outer space, as he furthered his own education in the field.

At the “Reflections of the Moon” event in the Goddard-based, Fairmount Center-run observatory Friday and Saturday night, both Sellers and volunteer Kelly Kabler spoke about the numerous unknown features of the satellite, as attendants looked through a telescope to observe craters and mountains on it.

“This observatory is about public education,” Sellers said. “For this particular program we just wanted to tell you about the moon, Uranus and Neptune in general, so that people can see them for one thing, because those two planets are invisible to the naked eye.”

The WSU senior explained the purpose of these events, as well as the objectives the staff strives to achieve.

“One of the goals of our office is to get people interested,” he said. “We want to give them an outlet to where they can get exposed to science and they can see it is interesting and it can be fun.”

Kabler, an astronomy enthusiast who has volunteered at the observatory ever since she moved to Wichita, stated her interest in astronomy as well.

“I’ve always had a knack for space,” she said. “I loved astronomy ever since I saw Saturn through a telescope when I was a kid and I actually studied astronomy in college. Tonight we’re basically comparing our moon to Uranus and Neptune — one’s a rocky satellite that orbits us and the other two are gaseous planets that orbit the sun — so we’re doing a compare and contrast.”

The “Reflections of the Moon” program will continue to run on Nov. 28-29 and Dec. 5-6. For more information, contact the Lake Afton Observatory at (316) 978-7927.