Yay! Telescopes came. The SubG and I were outside fiddling with them from 20:30 until 00:30. I saw moons around Jupiter! Richard pointed out the shadow of Ganymede on the face of Jupiter (though at the time we thought it was another moon transitting)! Also, since we were playing, I picked out a number of other large, bright, easy to find ( Read more... )

Cool. We may have visual on a planet outside our solar system.

In other news, the SubG has purchased a telescope and I am about to learn to read star charts. I am pumped.