You can show kids that things are real (and way cool) from the center
of the city. Show them bright objects: craters on the moon, jupiter's
moons, saturns ring, and with proper filters, sunspots. Those are the
objects we show the public when we do sidewalk astronomy. Before
covid, we would get about 300 people looking through our scopes during
a weekend evening. Most of them were quite impressed. The same objects
may impress your kids as well.
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On Mon, Oct 25, 2021 at 3:17 PM <gregz12@...> wrote:
For some reason I didn't type the word kid in my original note. It should have said I got into the hobby to show my KIDS things are real. I have realistic expectations for dark sites. Still, I suspect Andromeda can look better than a small blurry dot which is what I see with a C8 in my back yard.
Greg
