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| January 14, 2010

Perkins Observatory telescope

We were able to visit Perkins Observatory today near Delaware, OH on a field trip with our middle daughter, Ava. The story of how the observatory was built was really fascinating. Looking forward to going back for a nighttime viewing sometime soon!
Nikon D50: ISO 400 , f 4.8 , 1/60 sec with Quantaray 18-50mm lens

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  1. Ali
    January 14, 2010 - 7:09 pm - #

    Awesome.

  2. Marla Taviano
    January 14, 2010 - 7:59 pm - #

    That place is amazing.

  3. Marla Taviano | Christian author and speaker » Blog Archive » the heavens declare
    January 15, 2010 - 12:03 am - #

    [...] launching the homemade 2-liter rocket inside and looking at the sun with eclipse glasses and seeing this crazy-huge telescope) was when he took us all to the library (the walls were lined with old books!) and told us a [...]

  4. DavidH
    January 17, 2010 - 8:16 am - #

    I need to get up there again sometime. I last went on 2005-09-10

    http://www.davidhutchison.net/public/timeline/200x/2005/09/10/32-inch.jpg

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