A night under the stars.

I haven't mentioned this earlier, but I have had my 10 year old brother Jack staying with me for the past two weeks (I will explain why in a later blog). To celebrate the end of his two week stay, I decided to surprise him with a trip to the Sydney Observatory. I had been there once before, so I knew how awesome the night tour was. Last night was no different.

We got to watch a few short 3D videos about different aspects of space, and got to relax on bean bags and watch a planetarium display. The climax of the evening was the tour of the two domes that house the telescopes (on of which is a classification A artifact - the same rating given to the Mona Lisa in Paris)!

We were able to look through the telescope and guess what we saw...

Jupiter and two of her moons!

It looked pretty much like this:

Image borrowed from http://victoria.rasc.ca/gallery/Michael/Default.htm

Space is so very cool!

Sam xox