Saturday, 11 January 2014

Stargazing Live

 
We went to the Stargazing Live event in Cockermouth this evening. Thanks to the Astronomical Society people who put it on. I'm jealous of the auto-steer devices on some of the telescopes. My wildlife telescope can see as well as some of the smaller astronomical ones but it's very difficult to find a small point of light in a dark sky using mine. However, I did take this picture of the Moon. China landed the first lunar probe for nearly 40 years last month. I've labelled the landing site of Chang'e 3 on the picture below. Sorry it didn't come out too well.