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A montage of the eclipse as seen from Glenrock, WY
Composite of a couple images I took during the Great American Eclipse.
My first astronomy picture ever.
November 18, 2016
I was an 8-year-old Girl Scout who was fascinated with the Apollo program - like many kids my age. Everything was about the astronauts. We wanted to eat what the astronauts ate, wear what the astronauts wore, etc...everything was leading up to that July night in 1969. I remember my dad getting me up out of bed to watch the landing on TV. I can still see how we were in the living room...I was sitting cross-legged on the floor in front of the TV with my little sister sitting next to me. My dad was in a chair leaning ... more »
November 18, 2016
My favorite place to visit when I was 4 years old was the Field Museum in Chicago, Illinois, especially the Hall of Dinosaurs. Following that, I was allowed to watch Allen Shepherd launch into space when I was in first grade in Butte, Montana. We got to go to the third grade classroom to see it on a specially rigged television connection. I watched every space launch and followed the astronaut's adventures up to the shuttle launches. I followed the robotic missions to the moon and Mars. My mother took a geology course and I got to go along. We ... more »
November 17, 2016
My love affair with space begun by falling in love with Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica and Star Trek. I was enthralled with these shows, so I begun to read and research more about space and space travel and it made space that much more real for me.
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