Last summer at the Palmer reunion annual auction, Elisse bought Garry a used telescope. They had to take it to a shop in Dallas to get it fixed up, and it is now up and running! We took it for a spin this weekend, and had a lot of fun. We looked at Saturn, Venus, the Orion Nebula, the Pleaides, the Double Cluster of Perseus, and the Moon. We took this picture of the Moon with a point-and-shoot digital camera by placing the camera lens right up against the telescope eyepiece. Low-tech, but it works. It was fun to see how fast Garry and Elisse got the hang of navigating the sky to find things. We tried to find Comet Lulin, but without success. Hopefully in a couple of weeks it will be bright enough to find.
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