Jupiter

Two things on Aaron's Life goals list is to "See Saturn's Rings" and to "See Jupiter's Spot". Well the Theodor Jacobsen Observatory at UW was having a big lecture on Jupiter and then viewings through their telescope.

The Theodor Jacbsen Observatory was built in 1895, and is the second oldest building on campus. Before the lecture we had fun just walking around and looking at the building. The telescope here is one of the oldest of it's kind, but still more powerful than most home telescopes. (Unless you want to get into big bucks. It's certainly not the Hubble.) The lecture was ok - too many little kids trying to feel like they were part of the "discussion". We actually left early to go look through the telescope. Good thing! We waited in line for about 10 minutes. When we left it was about an hour wait! Yeck!

It was way cool! We weren't sure if we saw the spot or not, but Aaron was pretty sure he saw it on the right corner. We did see it's rings and 4 of it's largest moons. I think Aaron was very satisfied with that. It feels so good to mark thinks off your life list!!! Next spring we are doing Saturn for sure!