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Headed out Saturday night to find the offending planets.But alas.... just got set up and was getting familiar with the night sky when I noticed about half a dozen blokes approaching me ( I was in the middle of the local aussie rules field ) being in a secluded area it didn't do my blood pressure any good. Then one of them yells out " what the ef are you doing."
"Just looking through my telescope" says I standing up arms apart and chest puffed out. (national geographic has alot to answer for).
To cut a long story short I never got to look for the planets(until much later) but the guys all had a good look at Omega centuri with the zoom lens ( one guy even said it looked like warp speed on the star ship enterprise. They all had a look at the jewel box, tuc 47 , ring nebula (they thought it was because they were drunk that they couldn't stop it looking fuzzie. lol ,eta carinae, dumbell nebula, centaurus A although only one of them could actually see this(not called faint fuzzies for nothing),split rigil kent,M6,M7,M15 They also had a field day with my lazer pointer trying to blind each other and every driver that passed. I must admit it was a relief to see them on their way (about 2 hours later). Then I started to look for those planets. Still couldn't find them and my finder was starting to due over.
Fixed that problem and as Mars started to get higher in the sky my new found friends came back and had a look at their first planet.
I then thought retreat was the better part of valour as they were really really drunk and those not looking through the scope were wrestling on the grass.
The good news was that I made a few new friends and the bad news is they want to come back again next week. Thank goodness next week is Anthonys place lol
Never a dull moment when looking up : )
Gazz
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