Today was a great day. The Packers beat the Eagles, We toured the Arizona Desert Museum, and we took our first look through a telescope. The museum was an intriguing experience. I learned a great deal about the wildlife and native inhabitants of the Tuscon area. in particular I enjoyed leaning about the cacti because I had never seen a real one in its natural habitat before coming to Arizona. By far the best part of the museum was the Raptor hawk show. The hawks flew just inches above our heads as you can see in the video I have attached. I never knew some species lived and hunted together as families. They were magnificent creatures and we even got to see them hunt and catch some sort of field mouse. The teamwork they used was quite unique and apparently isn't found in any other type of birds.
At night we saw Jupiter and its two moons through the telescope, we also looked at the moon. The moon was especially interesting because the detail of the craters was unlike anything I have observed before. We worked on getting the telescope tracking working and aligned the finder sight with the observing lens. This will help us get better video tomorrow night because we have worked out most of the kinks with our set up.
I am starting to fall in love with the Arizona climate and skys. All in all it was a great day two and we are one day closer to getting up to Kuiper!
Tomorrow we shall get some better images of the moon... 18:30 if you're interested!! And on a side note, Bears > Packers.
ReplyDeleteI'm not getting into the bears/packers fight. Nope!
ReplyDeleteAnywho, good eye figuring out it was a field mouse of some sort. I thought the tufts it was tearing out looked more feathery than anything else, but my eyes arn't exactly the greatest.