Saturn Through A Telescope For First Time

Buying time for a late night Saturn viewing, watched "Smokey And The Bandit".  Or was it that we happened to be up late because we watched "Smokey And The Bandit"?  Anyhow, around 12:30am, Saturn was over the horizon.

So much fun to see.

I like that I've been building little rocket engines, viewing Jupiter and now Saturn and learning to fly r/c planes.

I knew I'd be tired today, but I didn't care.  I told Richard, "This is part of my job.  I need to do this."  So much has to do with imagination and wonder.  It's funny how looking through a lens and fiddling with knobs to get a quick smallish hard-to-focus view is  more exciting and real than seeing the image you see here.

There's something about standing back and seeing the planet as a tiny dot in the sky then peering at it thru the telescope and it's just there... Saturn.  The thought came to me, "Another planet - wow... I'm looking at another planet."  There's this open sensation with that - like space is more spacey.  The planet grows ancient in it's own history.  I can't explain it.... Saturn is a beautiful planet.