After a relatively quiet but busy end of month, I managed to get away from work before 6. This evening I went along to the astronomy club. The talk this evening was on telescopes by Steve. We were shown different mounts, telescope types, lens, etc. We watched Steve drool over his "Big Boy" and go all goey and glazed eyed while he talked about it. As the sky was clear we were able to get outside and look through a wide selection of telescopes. It seemed that some of the easiest ones to set up where the non-mechanical ones that, when trained, you can find your target very quickly without the whirring and fiddling around. One of the younger members had the little telescope that she had won at the Astrobash event last year. It is good to see that it went to someone that is making very good use of it. Her dad is very into astronomy and is training her well. She had the little telescope set up on a sturdy upside down flower pot. I saw the moon, saturn and the orion nebula through the various telescopes. We saw the moon first. The craters were really clear and Stevie got some beautiful photos with his mobile up held up to the telescope eye piece. Saturn looked good too. I saw the orion nebula for the first time which was cool. Dave was struggling to see through some of the telescopes. He's done something to put his back out again. He had to be helped up a few times when he'd knelt down to look through a low eyepiece.
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