Astronomy

Throughout middle school and highschool I got really into astronomy, once night hit I would take my telescope out and start looking up at the night sky. I loved to image the Moon, Venus, Jupiter, and Saturn. I was never really able to get any good images of Mars. But even if I wasn’t taking images there was just something about looking at the night sky and getting a sense for my place in the universe. I wasn’t just looking at a photo of Jupiter or Saturn I was looking directly at them and there was something powerful about that to me. It provided me perspective of my place in the universe. It made me realize that space isn’t something so far away it is something here. We exist in space it isn’t separate from us. Every time I look up at the night sky it leaves me in awe of the massive infinite universe we live in. It also grows my respect for my life and how rare it is that I am existing amongst all of this. I think many people don’t give the night sky much thought and they think well it is what it is. But they don’t take a moment to step back and sit in awe and realize how crazy and amazing it actually is. During lunar eclipses I would wake up in the middle of the night with my telescope trying to get a closer look. Unfortunately for me often times it was cloudy or would rain. When it did rain and it was a light rain I would cover my telescope in a tarp, take it outside then wait for a break in clouds to capture the lunar eclipse.