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Stuff on TV...
Watching the first moon walks.
Seeing Challenger blow up and Columbia break up.
Watching Giotto pass Halley's Comet.
The two Mars Rovers Spirit and Opportunity.
Watching the recent Comet Temple impact live on Nasa TV.
Magazines.
Viking Mars lander. I remeber being in hospital at the time and was reading about it in the local paper.
Following Voyager 1 and 2 and their journey through the solar system.
All the planet probes.
With my own eyes...
My first total lunar eclipse back in the 70's.
My first comet (Halley) through my 8 inch newt.
Supernova 1987A naked eye and the most memorable was through the 5.5 inch SN next to the tarantula nebula.
Horsehead nebula through the 10 inch f4.5.
Comet Levy in 1990 which I followed for a year.
Making my first telescope.
Making a 16 inch telescope.
Saturn, 47 Tuc and Omega through the same 16 inch telescope! Blown away.
Watching the comet Shoemaker Levy 9 impacts on Jupiter.
The beautiful Comet Hyakutake.
The bright Comet Hale-Bopp.
Mercury transits.
Venus transit.
I've probably forgotton a lot of things. They all seemed pretty dramatic at the time.
Edit, Oops, I read most dramatic but missed "best moment" otherwise I wouldn't have included the shuttle accidents. But you all knew that.
Last edited by cometcatcher; 28-04-2006 at 08:24 PM.
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