This morning my daughter heard about the eclipse on the the news. She was hoping her daddy would get home from work in time to put the telescope together in time to watch it. I told that the most important thing was if the weather was clear. A telescope wouldn't help us if the skies were overcast. But the weather cooperated and Daddy got home in time... so we got to observe the eclipse up close.
The telescope even came with a camera that you can hook up to your computer, but we were scrambling just to get it put together, so we didn't get any pictures... this time. I understand that this coming Sunday night will be a good time to view Saturn. Maybe we'll get the camera attachment figured out by then?
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We did see the eclipse! Well...sort of...we didn't stand there the whole time, but we took several glances, and Greg took a picture with our digital camera after it was completely dark. We do actually have a cheap telescope that is assembled (hee-hee), but we didn't take it out.
Now that sounds pretty cool. I forgot to check it out but it would have been with my naked eye and it's too cold to go naked. Ha
I saw the eclipse on television only. It would have been great to know about it in advance.
We had clouds so missed the eclipse. Believe it or not we did remember to look!
I heard about this too late. I might try to get out to see Saturn, though!
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