I don't know how to rank them so I have a short list of favorites. @ Monte Cristo. seeing Encke's Division first time with the 9" Clark, verified by Brent Watson, and In backyard, seeing Europa cast a shadow on Ganymede, shared with several friends, and I backyard, splitting Sirius, with my brother, and @ SPOC, 5 satellite/shadow events on Jupiter, and In Montana, total eclipse of the Sun, and Wolf Creek, 1st and only, so far, view of M57 central Star in Don's 18", and @ Butler middle School, during a school star party, seeing a Russian satellite come down in thousands of pieces. I grabed Eric Edmunds 10" and tracked it, what a view. Seeing a satellite go behind the Moon (ask Patrick) On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 6:52 PM, Dunn, David <David.Dunn@supervalu.com>wrote:
I am going to have to go with two. The daytime one would be the total eclipse in Libya. The was a very neat experience. Being on a cruise with Sky and Telescope and having more than half the passengers were astronomers and the rest were spouses was also fun.
The other one was one night on Monte Cristo where we got the best view of M101 I have ever seen. You could see knots of star forming regions in the arms using BOB (18.5" Dob).
Dave
----- Original Message ----- From: Chuck Hards [mailto:chuck.hards@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, February 04, 2012 02:00 PM To: Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Subject: [Utah-astronomy] Your most memorable telescope event
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? :-) _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy
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