That looks like most kids dreams right there getting to use a giant telescope. So many childhood memories of using whatever consumer grade kid telescope I had. Look at the moon or anything else and it was more or less just a blurry image! Still the power to gaze into the heavens at night and catch different events going on was always fun. I don’t stargaze like I use to and only sometimes look up at the sky during a comet event.
Quite cool stuff though. I use to have this little chart of the night sky and try to find the constellations.
Hey! Last Friday I was looking through the 60cm telescope here at Venus and the Moon during the day. Venus is well nothing special, still too far away and small, especially cause it was day. But the moon, oh my... it was so big, nad you know white-ish in front of the blue sky - 100% scene from Star Wars or some other sci-fi movie where you can see a giant planet in the daylight. DAMN!
YES! I remember my first time playing with very bad room-telescope all blurry and inverted... and the revelation with military binoculars. :D
I'm finding it difficult to get any constellation here, everything is strange and the Orion is upside-down. :D
Fun nevertheless, and both comets and meteor showers are awesome - with comets being much more interesting :)
Anyways, most of the times nowadays I can only see stuff on the PC :) I'm trying to go every other saturday to the observatory and work during the public nights, and I have a plan to start playing with some spectrograph that is available (just for fun). :)