What you do is, you have your drawing board and a pencil in hand at the telescope. You look in and you make some markings on the paper and you look in again.
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I was interested in telescopes and the way they worked because I had an intense desire to see what things looked like, so I learned how to use telescopes and find things in the sky.
Telescopes and microscopes bring to our view the otherwise unseen and unknown.
I'm a total nerd, so I'm on my telescope, or I read a lot. I'm very inspired by ancient history.
If you start out with a little telescope observing the stars and you keep at it over the years, as I have, it's kind of a dream to one day have an observatory where you can always go and use the telescope conveniently.
I have a fine lot of telescopes. I have one with which I can see the Mountains in the Moon.
I'm such a long-term investor, I've never really let go and celebrated what I did with the Hubble telescope.
For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study.
My parents gave me a small telescope, then I built my own, and one thing led to another. So that's how I ended up going from being a hobby astronomer to a professional astronomer.
The mission of NASA's Kepler telescope is to lift the scales from our eyes and reveal to us just how typical our home world is. Kepler operates by measuring the dimming of stars as planets pass ('transit') in front of them. It has found thousands of previously unknown worlds.
We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.