I went to Herstmonceux Observatory with my good buddies Astral and Opiium for
an Open Night. We spent a good few hours looking through the giant
telescopes built in 1896 at Mars, Venus, Jupiter, Orion's Nebula and the
Moon's terminator line (yes it's the line where the shadow meets the
light where you can see the mountains and craters!) I've got the bug -
now I want to join a club and buy a telescope! Looking at planets and
stars millions of miles away is mind-expanding, awesome! So are the art
spray guns they have at the centre - we made these psychedelic spiral
paintings of an undiscovered universe inside a black hole within a black
hole ... ;)
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| Galileo's drawing of the moon through his telescope |
well worth a visit... http://www.the-observatory.org/
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| happy international women's day! |
