Welcome to AC! We have a great community here, full of knowledge and fun. Don't be afraid to ask questions or share your experiences. Nice set of scopes and binos! I can't wait to hear some of your astronomical adventures.

Reggie

 

Hello Tony. I hope you're getting better weather than I am. I'm still waiting for spring lol.

 

Hello Hello welcome to AC. Enjoy your stay!

 

Welcome aboard Sickfish

 

Hey there Tony! It's great to have you aboard!

You're out of Watertown, eh? Cool. I went to school in Watertown, taught high-school chemistry in a private high there, and lived there for a few years. I know you're territory well. Though I was born in Cambridge just up Mt. Auburn street.

So welcome to A-C, an eclectic community which you're most welcome to add your voice and ideas to.

Enjoy!

Dave

 

Oh yes! Mount Auburn Cemetary - from the tower in it were launched many all-night parties & acid-trips! And a huge Halloween Party! The night-watchmen didn't want to see anyone moving around in the dark - so they just took off and left us all alone!

There was a cool Greek eatery in Watertown Square - Demo's - where I'd have their Greek Salad and Pita and a few shots of Ouzo for lunch most days. And maybe a wedge of their excellent Baclava for dessert.

 

@Dave In Vermont
Oh yes! Mount Auburn Cemetary - from the tower in it were launched many all-night parties & acid-trips!

Lol

@sickfish
Ill be there to look at your DIY.

 

That's all we can do is try!

Well I was made a science/chemistry teacher at the age of 15, as I was doing grad-school-level organic chemistry and basically living out of MIT & Harvard at the time, and the regular chem. teacher kept lighting himself and the lab on fire. It was of general conclusion that I'd better take over. Before he managed to light one of the students on fire!

So I have a long history of 'trying' to help people understand things they can't actually see with their own eyes - in many situations. Such be the nature of 'trying' to teach in the sciences. 'Try' being the operative word here.

 

Lat. & Long:

Latitude: 44° 29' 3"

Longitude: 73° 13' 17"

Or, in English, Burlington, VT. Within a long-walking distance of the Canadian border - in case Trump decides to launch a nuclear-war against the United States...

Oh yeah - the Star Market in the Square. Never needed to play with their conveyor-contraption. I was strictly cash & carry - being within an easy walking-distance to my nest on Palfrey Street, where I lived with my girlfriend and her utterly wild Mother - who was best-friend's with Mountain Girl - one of the original Merry Pranksters. And she was married to Jerry Garcia - one of the Grateful Dead - which I was sworn to secrecy as they'd all pile into the house when playing the East Coast, and we didn't need 10,000 screaming 'dead-heads' camped out on our lawn and pulling bricks out of the house as sovenirs!

Besides - I wasn't very fond of their music (that came later) - being more of a 'Jefferson Airplane' man myself at the time.

I'm amazed to hear Demo's is still alive & kicking! Who'd a thunk it?!

 

WPI = Worcester Polytechnique Institute, yes? Or, as some of the locals' would put it - "Wormtown." Worcester is an odd amalgam of part-city, part-rural-ish, and part-college town. I had relatives there, but they bailed-out as the police went after them for being 'Dutch.' As in from the Netherlands. The cops in Worcester are quite bigoted. As well as a case of "Towns vs. Gowns" - local near-do-wells and the what's viewed as 'Richy-Rich' sons & daughters of affluent and wealthy parents, who get everything handed to 'em.

This sociological-phenomena is actually quite common in 'college-towns.' But your daughter should be just fine. 'Towns v. Gowns' usually remains below the surface and rarely escalates to anything beyond a few dirty-looks. I had occasion to study this from my perch running a 'community-radio-station' in Waltham that was bankrolled by Brandeis University. We dealt with it by offering free lessons to any local who wanted such in a variety of topics. The locals became very much friendly to us from this effort.

 

That's great news! I hope so, at least. True - I haven't had cause to be in Wormtown in well over 10 years - when my family vacated, one to Florida, the other back home to Holland.

I'm glad you're 'taking the pulse' around Eastern Massachusetts. I may be asking you some questions from time-to-time!

Good stuff.

Enjoy our skies!

Dave