The heavens declare...

Last night my pal showed me the telescope he got for Christmas. First we looked at the moon and though his camera adapter hadn't shown up yet we tried holding our cameras up to the eyepiece with a modicum of success. We also looked at Mars and the Orion Nebula (wooo!) and Saturn, rings and all! (Zoweeee!). The nebula and Saturn were amazing. The first time I've really seen those things. No artist conception, no film, no pixels - just some powerful, high precision lenses and mirrors and my eyeball. Mind blowing stuff. Unfortunately without the proper camera mount and the tracking computer hooked up, it's impossible to get a photo of just about anything but the moon.