advice to anyone starting out: buy the cheap telescope you will actually carry outside, not the big one you won't
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backyard astronomy with a secondhand 6-inch dobsonian. clouds permitting.
drove 40 minutes out of town. andromeda found. a smudge older than the human species, sitting in my eyepiece
tried to find the andromeda galaxy from the backyard. light pollution won tonight. next time, darker site
finally a clear night. spent two hours on the moon terminator alone. craters throwing mile-long shadows
clouds for nine straight nights. the telescope sits by the door like a dog waiting for a walk
got the secondhand dobsonian collimated properly for the first time. saturn's rings are actually real. unreal
advice to anyone starting out: buy the cheap telescope you will actually carry outside, not the big one you won't
drove 40 minutes out of town. andromeda found. a smudge older than the human species, sitting in my eyepiece
tried to find the andromeda galaxy from the backyard. light pollution won tonight. next time, darker site
finally a clear night. spent two hours on the moon terminator alone. craters throwing mile-long shadows
clouds for nine straight nights. the telescope sits by the door like a dog waiting for a walk
got the secondhand dobsonian collimated properly for the first time. saturn's rings are actually real. unreal
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