Funny Chuck should have posted that question yesterday as yesterday I just happened to be flying over the site of my best event. Seeing the site out the window and thinking of Chuck's post I got a picture: http://users.wirelessbeehive.com/~paw/temp/BEST.JPG "X" marks the spot. Anyone recognize the site? Alas, though it has to be pretty much my most enjoyable event ever at a public star party I can't discuss it here being that this is a family friendly list-serve. LOL As for telescope events I can talk about: Nighttime: #1 has to be when Holly and I found our first minor planet. Daytime: 5 cloud free total solar eclipses (Montana, Kenya, Indonesia, Mexico, Aruba). patrick On 04 Feb 2012, at 14:00, Chuck Hards wrote:
What was your most memorable astronomical, OBSERVATIONAL, telescope event?
For me, it was seeing Jupiter with all four Galilean moons, circa 1967. It blew-away the mind of this (at the time) 9-year-old amateur astronomer. I was hooked, instantly. Thank You, Maker Of All Things. I was nine years old, IIRC. 18th Avenue in SLC, on the back balcony of my best-friend in 5th grade. Good people, they don't know what they truly did for me. I am humbled at their generosity.
(A secondary shout-out goes to the late Gene Roddenbery. Star-Trek actually spurred my astronomy interest, as did the US manned space program...yes, I got to see Neil Armstong step on the moon in real-time in my parent's living room. WOW!)
Number two was seeing Saturn's rings, probably within a few months of my Jupiter revelation. :-)
And you? :-)