Where is M41? Hey look, there is the Pleiades, get the binoculars. Sirius, the dog star shone brightly in the cold winter night’s air. All of this was carried carefully out to the snow fort, along with a planisphere.Īnd on this dark moonless night, somewhere in the Cypress Hills in the small town of Elkwater, Alberta, Orion began to appear in the sky. Somewhere along the way, he had collected his Dad's binoculars, a nice 7 x 50mm pair of Nikon's.
He had a 40mm refractor with a fixed eyepiece on a shaky tripod, and a 50mm refractor on an equally shaky tripod but this one allowed the Japanese sized eyepieces to be removed and changed out. "Yes Mom" he replied.Īfter dinner, he went to his room, and dug out his telescopes. "Get in here and get cleaned up, it's almost time to eat", she said. The sun began creeping lower in the clear blue afternoon sky, and the cold air was deceiving, you could see your breath in it. "Wear your winter boots, its cold out there." He largely ignored her because he is in his own world.Īs the afternoon progressed, an area in the front yard is transformed from a knee deep area covered in snow into a cleared spot with four tall walls made of snow blocks. "Son", she hollered, "what are you doing?” "I'm going outside to build a snow fort Mom" he said. There is heavy snow on the ground, almost two feet deep in places. The sun is deceiving because the temperature outside is just a bit above zero. It is a cold, bright sunny day in the deep of winter in 1973.
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