The Moonwatch

About eight of us from the astronomy club drove out to an elementary school with our telescopes for a moonwatch this evening.  One of our club members is Colin, a high school senior, who is planning to study astronomy in college next year.  He is a brilliant student, and his knowledge of astronomy in mind-boggling.  Here is shown explaining to one of the students at the school, some of the geological features on the moon that she was looking at in the telescope.  There was a young girl about nine years old that came to my telescope to look at the moon.  She put her eye to the eyepiece, and then was frozen in place.  I could tell in her voice that she was stunned seeing the craters and the surface of the moon.  She was immobile for a long time, and then after walking away, came back to my telescope for another view.  What is more rewarding than that, to introduce people to the universe!