Wednesday, September 25, 2019

M49

This past weekend, Patty, myself, and four friends, went to Cherry Springs State Park in Potter County, Pennsylvania. For a bit of stargazing.


One of the participants was our friend Marie, who, as noted before on this very blog, is working on her N for N list.* And one of the items on the list was to go observing at Cherry Springs.


The plan had been to go last summer and, as I'm the astronomy geek in our circle of friends, I was to provide the telescopes and serve as celestial tour guide. But my back issues put the kibosh on that plan.

I'm better now (yay!) and we had earlier in the year tried to go observing on Assateague Island. But rain spoiled those plans (boo!).


So if at first, (and second), try, try again. And, continuing the cliche theme, the third time's the charm.


As these pictures of the Milky Way show, charm it was. We had two very good nights of observing.

And Marie was able to checkoff the 49th item from her list.

🎂  ðŸŽ‚  ðŸŽ‚  ðŸŽ‚  ðŸŽ‚

* Marie had a milestone birthday last year, the 'Big N'. And the "N for N" list is N things to do in her Nth year. As this is #49 on that list it kinda gives away N. But Marie says that's ok.

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