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Reaction from the parents was similar. But they agreed to drag the boys out to a star party as long
as there was a scouting award attached. Anything for a belt loop. We held our event at a pack member’s home just outside
of Gretna, Nebraska. They had dark skies and four acres of space. That allowed us to have a bon re (well away from the
telescopes of course) and refreshments. No one expected they would want to spend the entire night at the eyepiece.
All of that changed when I got out my Meade ETX telescope and focused on the moon. Once the kids saw the mountains,
ridges and craters of the moon that are clearly visible through a quality telescope, their cries of excitement began to draw
curious parents across the eld for a look.
With a crowd gathering, we went to the next brightest object in the sky (I had no idea what it was) and asked the ETX’s
AutoStar controller to identify it. We soon discovered we were looking at Jupiter.