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Sunday, July 1, 2012
1:11 AM | Posted by Sharp's Travels

Today was a day of rest.  We were slow getting around.  I gave Gay a haircut and I did a little reading.  Gay worked on our route we will be taking to the Black Hills.


We signed up for the Steak Dinner at the club house at 5:30pm.  We shared a table with some very nice people and our meal was very good.


At 7:30pm we were on our way to the Gunnison Valley Observatory.  It is open to the public Friday’s and Saturday’s nights.  The Observatory opened 4 years ago.  The land was donated by the county and they had fun raisers to buy the big 30” telescope and to build the observatory.  It is all run by volunteers.  


As we drove up all we saw was a mound of dirt.  We waited for the gate to open—went in and parked, then proceeded around this mound of dirt to the small domed building.


Our evening started with a brief astronomy related lecture. The gal giving our lecture was a professor at Gunnison College.  She told us about the moon, planets and Saturn and its moons.  After the lecture we were sent upstairs where the big telescope was located.  A portion of the dome was open and we all got a chance to gaze at the moon through this huge telescope.  Next we looked at Saturn and we could see the ring around it.  That was my favorite.  The blue and gold stars were neat too.  


It was interesting learning more about this universe of ours.   We never thought going to an Observatory would be on our list of things to do this summer!










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