You may have read my other post about the Orion Nebula I found.
Well, there is one thing I have wanted to see since I was tiny through a telescope.
So tonight, I looked at Jupiter, then Uranus, The Orion Nebula, Betelgeuse - the dying star in the Orion constellation, then I thought that I would give it a go tonight, find the jewel in the crown.
Remembering how I'd found it last week with binoculars with a pro astronomer, I moved the telescope round - brightest star, less bright, dim, then down and accross a little. Turned the focusing knob, and into sharp focus came this:
It really was amazing, that smudge of light is 14696249535525034000 miles away (2.5 million light years). That light I was looking at has taken 2.5 million years to get to my telescope. As I was looking at it, I wondered what was looking back at us, how hundreds of billions of planets are in that galaxy of a trillion stars that is there infront of me.
So that was my month made. I'm happy
Well, there is one thing I have wanted to see since I was tiny through a telescope.
So tonight, I looked at Jupiter, then Uranus, The Orion Nebula, Betelgeuse - the dying star in the Orion constellation, then I thought that I would give it a go tonight, find the jewel in the crown.
Remembering how I'd found it last week with binoculars with a pro astronomer, I moved the telescope round - brightest star, less bright, dim, then down and accross a little. Turned the focusing knob, and into sharp focus came this:
It really was amazing, that smudge of light is 14696249535525034000 miles away (2.5 million light years). That light I was looking at has taken 2.5 million years to get to my telescope. As I was looking at it, I wondered what was looking back at us, how hundreds of billions of planets are in that galaxy of a trillion stars that is there infront of me.
So that was my month made. I'm happy
