[AZ-Observing] Re: Touring The Sky
- From: Jack Jones <telescoper@xxxxxxx>
- To: az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2011 17:28:50 -0700
He may have been a Ph.D. They are never wrong, you know.
Jack
On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 2:11 PM, <Skylook123@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Same here. I had a customer at the Grand Canyon a few years ago who
> seemed quite intelligent, young man here as a student with his family
> visiting
> from India or Pakistan. Very nice people. The cloud bank rising in the
> East got his attention, and he was dismayed we would have to stop
> observing.
> Nope, says I, that's the Milky Way, lots more eye candy. No he says,
> that's clouds. I tip the 18" truss dob over to that area, have him bend
> over
> and look into the eyepiece and see the richness of the star field. So
> what
> does he say then? Oh, those stars are in front of the stars. Ten or
> twelve
> other visitors quickly turned their backs and shook their heads. Never
> did convince him!
>
> Jim O'Connor
> South Rim Coordinator
> Grand Canyon Star Party
> gcsp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> In a message dated 9/18/2011 1:31:56 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,
> jimmy_ray@xxxxxxx writes:
>
> I always get the alarmed "What is that big glowing cloud over there! Is it
> a
> storm, a fire?" "No, none of those, that is you parent galaxy the Milky
> Way"
> Cute but sad...
>
> Thank you,
>
> Jimmy Ray
>
>
>
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