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Gina:
Very cool, Doug.

Dennis Vogel:
Thank you Doug.

If you go here: http://www.pbs.org/programs/ then scroll down and click on "Nova" you will find two other very recent programs titled "Hunting the Edge of Space."

Last year I was on a mountain at 10,000 feet in Colorado with my 10" reflector telescope. After the moon went down I pointed it at the brightest spot in the Milky Way.

I was using a wide-field lens so I could see many thousands of stars. All of them very tightly packed so close that there was no empty space between them. None.

The color was kind of a washed out yellow. I was impressed the human eye could discern such extremely small points of light. Words cannot do justice to how small these points of light were. And like I said, no empty space between them.

Just two days ago I told someone at work that this was a life changing experience.

That same night waiting for the moon to go down:

Gina:
Love that.

doug:
Dennis, thanks for sharing your Nova link.  I can never get tired of seeing this stuff! 

Your well composed and cropped photo of the early moon with your telescope looks to me like the top of Pikes Peak.  That's an awesome spot!

The only time I have viewed through a bonafied telescope is a couple of times when  amateur astronomers had theirs set up
with the passing by of a couple of comets.  Another beautiful sight to behold!

I also have literally hundreds of sunrise, sunsets and moonscape pics from my backpacking trips over the years.  You are right... when one is in solitude and away from the glow of city lights... the stars and galaxies in the heavenlies display their royal cloak of awe inspiring beauty!  Life changing is indeed the correct words.

doug

cjwood:
i would have loved to been there dennis, 10,000 feet up.  with only God's handiwork spread out above and the beauty of the mountains He created. 

thank you for sharing with us.

claudia

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