What could be more relaxing than looking up at the stars on a clear evening?

Photographs:

Taken with a B/W PC camera and a laptop

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Taken with a color digital camera

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Note the shadow of two moons - this was taken a few minutes after the one above

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Lunar eclipse - and temperature below freezing!

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Texas Star Party 2000

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The 'scope

8" Dobsonian.  Pentax XL eyepieces.

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