First Time Moonshot

Fri, 24 Apr 2026 12:34:27 -0700

Last night was the night I’d been counting down to. On April 23rd → Venus would act as a signpost to Uranus. At 6pm, while the sun was still up, I asked Mitch to move the eight-inch Dobsonian out to the front porch, anticipating to catch Venus and Uranus together in the same frame of the 30mm eyepiece.

We didn’t find Uranus, likely drowned out by Venus’s glare. Poor Uranus: compared to its solar-system sibling Venus, it’s about 7,600 times dimmer.

Moon on Three Portkeys

First Time Moonshot