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There are some gadgets that are just ridiculous and should not see the light of day. Like the iPod toilet paper holder, and the beer belly beverage bag. So when someone told me I should get The Celestron Sky Scout, for stargazing, I thought, yeah right. It gets really cold outside, when it gets dark. I go from the house to the car to work to the car to my house again– I’m trying to avoid being outside it the dark. So the other night when my wife made me go onto the porch for some fresh air, I realized the error of my ways. It was a clear cold winter’s night. This is Western Virginia– out here you can actually SEE those twinkly things in the sky. While taking in the vastness of the blanket of stars above, I felt kinda stupid. I could only point out two or three constellations– less than the average 4th grader, probably.There are like, A BILLION stars up there, how could I recognize only a small handful of them? Did I miss that day in middle school? It was probably more like a week. This is just sad. We’re planning a family camping trip in the spring with my brother the high school science teacher and his family– he’ll mop the floor with me if I don’t brush up on my astronomy and quick.
Anyways, I decided to check out the Celestron. It’s educational, but it’s not like getting schooled. It’s actually pretty cool. It uses GPS technology to identify any star, planet, or space junk you aim it at. It has more than 6,000 space objects in its databank– you’re not going to run out of things to check out. Or you can keep doing what I’ve been doing– pointing at the sky hollering, “Saturn’s probably over there!” and gesturing wildly in some direction. That’s just silly.
