[26 (Paul)]

Anyone have a tale about showing first timers an amazing view through a scope?

The in-laws had a dark sky on their property north of Melbourne and loved looking up at night but had never seen a scope before.
Imagine what a 12” Lx200 looked like to them. Massive weird contraption.

My mother in law never, ever swears. Won’t even watch a movie with swearing, but when she came up to the eye piece and saw a globular cluster (pretty sure it was 47 Tucanae) she let out an involuntary “Oh F@#k”.

That was 20 years ago and we still talk about it and laugh.