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This evening during migration watch I put my scope on the moon. It was the first time I'd ever looked at it through a decent scope. My God. The craters, the mare, the streaks of dust.
Just then we took some scopes outside with a couple of guests who know a bit of astronomy.
I was almost in tears. It's one thing to see pictures of the bands on Jupiter and rings of Saturns and read about the moons, but it's totally mindblowing to actually look through a telescope and see them with your own eyes.
Also took a look at the Jewel Box, the binary star in the pointers (forget the name) and the faint glow of omega centauri as well as some other stuff. Absolutely humbling to know there is so much out there that you can't even see with your eyes. You look through an instrument that magnifies it and still it's just a faint glow but you know if you could magnify it even more you'd see hundreds more stars upon stars.
This evening during migration watch I put my scope on the moon. It was the first time I'd ever looked at it through a decent scope. My God. The craters, the mare, the streaks of dust.
Just then we took some scopes outside with a couple of guests who know a bit of astronomy.
I was almost in tears. It's one thing to see pictures of the bands on Jupiter and rings of Saturns and read about the moons, but it's totally mindblowing to actually look through a telescope and see them with your own eyes.
Also took a look at the Jewel Box, the binary star in the pointers (forget the name) and the faint glow of omega centauri as well as some other stuff. Absolutely humbling to know there is so much out there that you can't even see with your eyes. You look through an instrument that magnifies it and still it's just a faint glow but you know if you could magnify it even more you'd see hundreds more stars upon stars.
