I brought my old Meade telescope back with me from Canada. It’s been in our family since 1986, when my father and I made our first “serious” foray into astronomy. Nothing extravagant, but the little Meade 2045 gave me many hours of pleasure as a youngster, and I was looking forward to bolting my Nikon D80 on.

The weather hasn’t been all that conducive to astronomy, but I did get it out to RDU today to try some airplane photography. And the results aren’t too bad!