We went to the Desert Museum first thing today. I believe the idea behind a nature museum completely outdoors is genius. Everything we saw was absolutely beautiful. Notice the palindrone? It was sort of like that. Peices of beauty all over the place... You just had to pay attention. The heart shaped cactus in the picture is an example. It could have been easily overlooked.
I must apologize for any formatting errors... Doing this on a phone isn't easy...
On an astronomical note, we took our forst images of the trip. Essentially a trial and error run with our little telescope.... DA had to show us several corrections, but at least we learned something, and thats what this trip is about. The photos of the moon were clear enough, and the webcam images were gorgeous. Unfortunately, the atmosphere was not a good friend of ours. Jupiter was also fairly decent to view and I saw the Orion Nebula with fair detail with my own eyes for the first time. I am lookimg forward to another amateur run tomorrow now that we know how to track.
Once again, it has been great getting to know all the other students and of course DA. Thank you all for making my first J Term as enjoyable as possible!!
Learning how to track seems like a very important skill to have. Maybe we should get at least 1 person from each of the 3 groups to practice tracking tonight, before we head up the mountain tomorrow..
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