I’d have bet a fiver you were going to finish with “Still, I’ve shagged worse”.
I was about to cue @Penance
A nice bit of software for the lap top… It’s free
Helped me learn the proper names for “The Big Saucepan” (Ursa Major) and “The Little Saucepan” (Pleiades)… Mine still make more sense…
If you have an unobstructed view to the South, take a look outside (upstairs window) and admire a decent chunk of our solar system:
[Saturn’s relatively dim, but easy to find almost exactly halfway between Venus and Jupiter]
Too many clouds at the moment.
Can’t see a fucking thing for smears. Clean yer windows you mucky git.
The window was open you yellow fool.
Can you see Uranus?
Cue photo
You guys have WAY steadier hands than me…
Perhaps not a huge surprise…
I don’t even have a sash window, so mine was the best of a few reach out, point and shoots (neighbours’ trees stopped me from seeing Venus from ground floor level). I did have some much shakier ones though.
some amazing engineering, we have a couple of astronomers involved. A 30 year project in the making…if it fails, it is a careers worth of work down the toilet for some scientists
Yup. You spend, literally, your life building something. And then you put it on top of, literally, a firework.