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Camping with cub scouts.

Started by slotdrag, 10/03/2006 01:16AM
Posted 10/03/2006 01:16AM Opening Post
Many of you know im a cub scout leader, a weblos 1 leader this year. we took the tiger, wolf, bear, weblo 1, and weblo 2, all camping at lake afton obserbatory near wichita ks this week end. we went to the obserbatory and looked through the 16' smidth cass. seen the moon. uranus, and neptune. And then a star 45 light years away that is supposed to have a planet orbiting it.After we got done there i set up my celestro c8n reflector. I showed the moon and every body thiught it looked as good as through there scope. Then went to albeiro they were amazed. Then peladies came up and they didnt realize it was so prety Then it got late so i just played a while. I got up at 5:30 set up and got saturn and everybody had to look then went to orions nebula. The sun started coming up and a few of the scouts that slept in wanted to see saturn I found it and was able to show it with a blue sky behind it.This is the first time i've had my scope under dark skys. i'll be keeping mine and upgrading the mount with motor drives because i and everybody else didnt see much difference between the scopes.