Coolest Things - Telescopes

So lately I've been feeling a hankerin' for seeing things far away...

And yesterday decided to drag out the telescope my brother bought a few years ago. Except I couldn't find but one lens. Oops.

So I take it outside and try to set it up on the hood of one of the cars so I can see this planet that's been hanging in the western sky around 9pm that I just can't identify.


Tonight I actually found some of the lenses (but not the manual) and got it outside again and was actually able to resolve said planet quite well. Couldn't identify it til I came in and looked it up (11pm)

but before that, I decided to peek at our nearest neighbor, El Luna. Very damned bright, looking at it through a telescope.

Called my brother outside. He goes apeshit when he sees it and says "look look look"

And we see a satellite crossing the plane of the moon :D

I tried to take a couple pictures of the moon but the cheapy digital cameras looking through cheapy telescope ends up crappy...

But it was really cool to see it so "up close."