Checking out a lunar eclipse
When you’re not a regular stargazer you forget just how quickly Earth rotates!
Fortunately our telescope has an equatorial mount so we just had to keep turning one knob to have the moon stay in our sights during tonight’s lunar eclipse.
Photo of a woman standing outside at night looking through the eyepiece of a medium-sized home telescope. Her hand is on an adjustment knob at the side of the telescope.