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Mar. 16th, 2007
A Night at the Observatory
Mar. 16th, 2007 08:55 amLast night a group of my family and friends went to the Perth Observatory in the foothills to cop a look at some astronomical awesomeness. The drive was a long one but the hills are so very beautiful and the stars! Ah! So many stars!! They positively *glitter* out there, you wouldn't believe it! I wish I had better eyesight so I could see them without them being blurry :(
Anyhow, a very charismatic and agreeable fellow by the name of Greg gave us a tour and we all went on different telescopes there, checking out different features in the sky. We saw:
- Magellan's Cloud. That was pretty cool!
- Saturn. It looked SO AWESOME! Like a photograph!
- Alpha Centauri. SHINY!
- The Tarantula Nebula.
- The nebula in Orion.
- A globular cluster I forget the name of.
I may be remembering things twice or forgetting some things. It was really spectacular to see this stuff through these huge telescopes. I've yearned to see these things properly through telescopes for years and I wasn't disappointed last night. Just seeing the Observatory, too, and going up to the big telescope where they do their proper research - it was so exciting!
It was really funny cause a call came through to one of the telescope sheds while we were out there and the astronomer dude took it (Ralph) and it was clear somebody saw something and was calling to ask what it was.
"Hot air balloon," he says, "Or one of those kid's balloons."
I lost it. I was laughing so hard, I was just waiting for him to say "Swamp gas" ya know? LOL!
We went up there for a treat for Mum and she just loved it. I don't mind that it was thirty dollars. I'm glad my money is going to help fund their activities up in the hills. Perth is in a really excellent spot so our dudes have helped out NASA a bit in the past.
Anyhow, a very charismatic and agreeable fellow by the name of Greg gave us a tour and we all went on different telescopes there, checking out different features in the sky. We saw:
- Magellan's Cloud. That was pretty cool!
- Saturn. It looked SO AWESOME! Like a photograph!
- Alpha Centauri. SHINY!
- The Tarantula Nebula.
- The nebula in Orion.
- A globular cluster I forget the name of.
I may be remembering things twice or forgetting some things. It was really spectacular to see this stuff through these huge telescopes. I've yearned to see these things properly through telescopes for years and I wasn't disappointed last night. Just seeing the Observatory, too, and going up to the big telescope where they do their proper research - it was so exciting!
It was really funny cause a call came through to one of the telescope sheds while we were out there and the astronomer dude took it (Ralph) and it was clear somebody saw something and was calling to ask what it was.
"Hot air balloon," he says, "Or one of those kid's balloons."
I lost it. I was laughing so hard, I was just waiting for him to say "Swamp gas" ya know? LOL!
We went up there for a treat for Mum and she just loved it. I don't mind that it was thirty dollars. I'm glad my money is going to help fund their activities up in the hills. Perth is in a really excellent spot so our dudes have helped out NASA a bit in the past.
Rogue - Precocious!
Mar. 16th, 2007 01:26 pmI brought in all of the shopping that Mum and Dad did, it's about twelve bags of shopping all up. Rogue just *loves* sniffing out the shopping and looking in the bags. I got back to writing emails and stuff and I turned around and she's *settled* in the bags, her favourite dead-animal-esque toy in her mouth (what used to be a mouse on a bouncy plastic coil but is just now a small swatch of rabbit fur on a plastic string). I get back to typing.
Mum finds the furry thing (that she treats consistently like prey) in one of the bags. Hehehe.
She's so CUTE!
Mum finds the furry thing (that she treats consistently like prey) in one of the bags. Hehehe.
She's so CUTE!