Turnin' nerd...

[Irving]

How many fingers am I holding up?

Can you take pictures with the model you bought?

[sniper7]

I had a telescope as a kid and I am not sure what happened to it. I still love to look up at the stars while camping or hunting and also while flying. I get a pretty good view from about 30,000'


Last week while at cruise I saw by far the coolest thing as far as nature/astronomy or anything goes in my life.

I don't know how to judge the distance of it, but a meteor came through the atmosphere what appeared to me to be about 20 miles away or less. It was close enough I actually saw pieces flying off it and burning up. it definitely stayed large enough that it impacted the earth. I looked in the news and the paper the next day but didn't hear of anything or anyone getting hit, so I can only assume it ended up in a field somewhere to never be found.
I know we have all seen shooting stars but this thing was damn close and I was just amazed to see the chunks falling off and burning up.

[sniper7]

When I was in HS I used to go to "Star Parties" put on by the American Astronomical Society.

Yeah, I was a science nerd.

I think we had someone affiliated with that group or something similar come to my middle school. they set up a huge dome in the gym and then showed us a lot of the constellations and stars and planets etc. very cool experience.