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My first views were as a kid at Christmas, Victor Harbor caravan park.
My brother and I were cruising around the park on our bikes and we saw
another caravan park resident using a monster telescope...in the daytime!.
We asked if we could look through it and the bloke showed us Venus in
the late afternoon sky. The scope would have been about an 8" F7ish Newt.
I nagged my father to build one...we eventually did and we ground and
polished our own mirrors.
This scope was later to give Trevor Barry his first views of Saturn.
The other thing that inspired me to dive into astronomy was mum's
uncle Norm.
He was the curator of the Adelaide levels planetarium and he put on
a show for us also when I was a kid of about 10.
Steve B.
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