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Day 3 of my #fivedayquest , thanks to +Elizabeth Hahn
5 days / 5 photos / tag a new person each day to join
1 photo for 5 days of your daily life.
I teach at a private residential college in a rural community in the hills above the Napa Valley…and nestled in the 1800 acres of forest land behind the college, we have a Celestron 1400 telescope in a nicely-sized observatory dome. Besides being used for astronomy labs, it is open for public viewing every Friday night (weather permitting).
Last night I went in to learn the process of initial calibration/alignment that then allows for easy finding of hundreds of interesting objects in the sky…Now I'll be able to come back on my own in the future and use the DSLR adapter to play in the dark…
Having the moon this bright makes other objects harder to see, but we got great views of Jupiter and 4 of its moons, along with Saturn and it's amazing rings. A couple-dozen students stopped in to ooh and ahhh. It's fun to see 18-22 year-olds get excited about "sciency" things.
This was shot with my Samsung Galaxy S5 just held up to the eyepiece of the telescope
For this third day of the five day quest, I tag +Joe Dolister Joe, you are under absolutely no pressure to do the fivedayquest, but if you want to, you can! Just post a photo of daily life for five days. :-)
#astrophotography #lunarphotography #androidography #androidphotography
Waxing Gibbous
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Day 3 of my #fivedayquest , thanks to +Elizabeth Hahn
5 days / 5 photos / tag a new person each day to join
1 photo for 5 days of your daily life.
I teach at a private residential college in a rural community in the hills above the Napa Valley…and nestled in the 1800 acres of forest land behind the college, we have a Celestron 1400 telescope in a nicely-sized observatory dome. Besides being used for astronomy labs, it is open for public viewing every Friday night (weather permitting).
Last night I went in to learn the process of initial calibration/alignment that then allows for easy finding of hundreds of interesting objects in the sky…Now I’ll be able to come back on my own in the future and use the DSLR adapter to play in the dark…
Having the moon this bright makes other objects harder to see, but we got great views of Jupiter and 4 of its moons, along with Saturn and it’s amazing rings. A couple-dozen students stopped in to ooh and ahhh. It’s fun to see 18-22 year-olds get excited about “sciency” things.
This was shot with my Samsung Galaxy S5 just held up to the eyepiece of the telescope
For this third day of the five day quest, I tag +Joe Dolister Joe, you are under absolutely no pressure to do the fivedayquest, but if you want to, you can! Just post a photo of daily life for five days. :-)
#astrophotography #lunarphotography
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