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That moment at a star party when a 10 year old showed me my telescope was out of collimation and I felt like a complete rookie
He just casually looked through my 8 inch Dobsonian and said 'your secondary is way off, my dad can fix that in 2 minutes' and then proceeded to explain diffraction spikes to me like I was the kid.
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faith6844mo ago
He explained diffraction spikes to me like I was the kid" - I read somewhere that kids pick up on telescope stuff way faster than adults because they don't have bad habits yet. Sounds like that kid is well on his way to being a better astronomer than most of us.
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shane6554mo ago
Wait, is that really true about kids picking it up faster? I've seen it firsthand honestly. My nephew got a cheap telescope last Christmas and he figured out collimation before I did. He just watched a YouTube video once and went for it. Adults overthink everything, we get scared of breaking stuff or doing it wrong. Kids just mess around until it works (which is basically the whole point of science anyway). That kid with the diffraction spikes is probably going to end up teaching a class one day.
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terry_carter154mo ago
Wait kids are just fearless with tech. They'll try anything while we're still reading the manual.
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