Month: July 2018

Den of Positivity, 7.5 mo PO: From a friend’s post about the moon last night: “PEOPLE. I just saw the moon in my new telescope. And I mean in crystal clear precision, so big it didn’t fit in the lens, I had to pan to see all of it, and CRYSTAL CLEAR. Like the pictures you see in books of close-ups of the moon. Craters, ridges of craters in stark relief, valleys, those shocking white spots and lines that look like meridians radiating out from craters – or maybe it was one of the moon’s poles?? How the hell do I know!! And a crystal clear Sea of Tranquility. I could see textures, people, and colors – well, ok, black and white and grey, not exactly colors but MOON colors, and they were stunning. Holy cow I am bad at that telescope and holy cow it is a steep learning curve but I hit JUST THE RIGHT spot with the focus control and it popped into perfect focus – so I learned THAT tonight, go slow with THAT knob or you miss everything, 1 millimeter in either direction and it’s a blob, but it DOES have a perfect place. If I never figure out how to see ANYTHING ELSE with that telescope, that moon is good enough! That telescope is bigger than I am and I got like a dozen new mosquito bites dragging it out to that field and it was totally worth it. That was mind-blowing.”