What do you see?

When we headed to Flagstaff for the magical train ride, we went a day early so we could check out the Lowell Observatory. It has a reciprocal membership with our local wildlife museum to which we are members to.

 This is what Eric had been looking forward to.  This spot was specifically sought out as one of the best places to search for Pluto, and anything else they could find in space.  We saw telescopes ranging in size from small to huge.  Saw pictures of various things in space which were awesome.

And we all enjoyed looking at Jupiter and four of it's 63 moons!  We could even see the bands on Jupiter. AMAZING!

It was dark, and cold when we went Saturday night. Before leaving the hotel, we suggested and highly encouraged Sweetness to put pants on.  She had her mind made up though.

 Inside they had a cool 3-D exhibit about Mars.

 Can I touch it?

Doodle was snug as a bug, which meant he dozed while we walked around.

Saturday night we spent about two hours at the observatory. Some of it being inside and some outside, we did a lot of back and forth.  We went to a presentation about the star of Christmas as well.

Then, Sunday we headed back to do the outside day stuff.  First we walked the solar system They had a scale representation of our solar system and interesting facts about each planet along the way. 

Following the solar system was a hike thru the galaxy. The milky way galaxy.   The supernovas were much more spread out than the planets!

Saturday Doodle got to ride with Daddy, and he slept again all snuggled up.

Once through the galaxy, we got to continue on through the universe. However, the scale had to be adjust again, and this time, one inch represented 2.1 BILLION light years.  We managed to walk quite a ways that day!

Fun fact : The universe is expanding faster now, than it ever has in the past. 

It was all a bit mind boggling.

Coming back during the day we still got to look through telescopes, we just saw different things.

Like, the sun. We saw solar flairs and temperature variations on the surface of the sun. Fascinating!

Did you have a good time?

Yes was the answer we got.