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.