Sheila chipped up, “You watch – it is my turn to look through the telescope.”
Robert showed her how to adjust the focus and pointed the scope towards his favourite constellations. “We’ll start with the easy ones first,” he said. “Orion and Gemini, where we can look at a red giant Betelgeuse, which is larger than the Solar System, and a real sparkler 900 light years away called Rigel, then a cluster of stars below Orion’s Belt, where new stars are being found. Then the heavenly twins Castor and Pollux.”
“Wow! Amazing! Fantastic!” came from Sheila, as the telescope revealed the night sky.
“That was just a starter,” Robert said. “Now for the best – Jupiter and its moons. It is the brightest object in the sky after the moon at the moment and it is shining like a beacon. You can’t miss it! G
