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Originally Posted by mental4astro
* "Discovered" Saturn when I was 13 years old. Was following Mars' motion across the sky over a few weeks, when I got suspicious of the reference 'star' I was using. Decided one night just to have a look at this star just for the hell of it, and WOW, GOD DAMN FLAMING SATURN!!!  |
Did this when I was 12 using a 60mm refractor... Teary moment I don't mind admitting.
Equal top moments,
- showing elderly man Halley's comet through my 29" newt and then having him say he'd waited a long time to see it again...
- meeting Clyde Tombaugh
Funniest
- Taking my gorgeous wife to 7 mile beach late one night near Hobart airport for some "stargazing" and having Federal police phone us and ask why our vehicle was parked near the end of the runway. (During the terrorism paranoia) Lots of giggling and fast talking, some of it from the Fed..
Most opportunistic
- Taking a class group for a drive into country Victoria for their first nights observing only to have the most spectacular aurora I've ever seen explode across the sky. Some of them had cameras and had their photos published... Bloody hard act to repeat