Comments on: What was your first?

By: muck

muck — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 05:31:26 +0000

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By: quasidog

quasidog — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 05:08:57 +0000

@Spoon? “That’s right Astronomy gets women.” ….. WTF ? I’m all confused now … ;p jks

By: Spoon?

Spoon? — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 23:40:08 +0000

Jupiter. Last Saturday @ Koolang observatory . Beautiful bright milky ball. The trip was a surprise for my girlfriend.
That’s right
Astronomy gets women.
FTW

By: Kat

Kat — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:29:25 +0000

My first was probably the moon, during what I suspect was the 1989 Lunar eclipse. My dad had a little telescope (4″, maybe?) and we had a great view from our back porch in Colorado.
The first Really Impressive Thing I saw through a telescope was Saturn, though, from a camp in the mountains in 1993 or so. Being up around 12,000 ft and away from all the lights of the city, we could see a lot of stars and Saturn’s rings were clearly visible through the 8″ or 10″ telescope they had set up for the campers.

By: Space Star Wars Episode 3 Planet Mars

Space Star Wars Episode 3 Planet Mars — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 09:54:14 +0000

Space Star Wars Episode 3 Planet Mars

I didn’t agree with you first, but last paragraph makes sense for me

By: beche-la-mer

beche-la-mer — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 02:35:31 +0000

Halley’s comet, 1986. My dad was actually running comet-watching tours, but I didn’t get home on university break until the comet was past its best. It didn’t inspire me to further astronomical adventures: in fact, I barely glanced at the night sky again until many years later when I became interested in cosmology and astronomy from a theoretical point of view, because my son was learning about the solar system in preschool.

By: schmiedesgruebl

schmiedesgruebl — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 17:21:08 +0000

Looked at the moon through my birdwatching binoculars, and promptly joined the local astronomy club.

First look through a telescope was Jupiter. I think. It was a club star party so Saturn and M13 might be runners-up. Jupiter stands out because one very nice man stayed an extra hour so that he could show me one of the moons (I forget which) transit and cast a shadow on the face of the planet.