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At a public night at a set of observatories there was a group from a school or something.
3 of the girls looked through the scope I was helping at, 1 seemed a bit "lost".
One asked what they had been observing so I took them outside and indicated the target in the sky, then walked them to the next observatory. At the next one the person who had driven their mini-bus was there and asked what they had seen.
2 said about the object (small cluster) the 3rd (lost one) said she hadn't seen anything. Then said "I closed the wrong eye."
The driver slid down the observatory wall laughing, I was wordless.
Yes, she had closed one eye, then put the closed eye to the scope eyepiece. The group was 16-18 years in age. So really no excuse.Comment
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I blame incomplete instructions - to make things clear it should have been "close one eye, and then look through the telescope with your other one " :-)Comment
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