Have you ever wondered what activities Tawonga has to offer at night? During inservice training some of the staff and I took out Camp's telescope to see what was in the sky.

Did you even know we had a telescope at camp? Yeah! A wonderful friend of camp donated it last year. (Thank you Seth Skootsky)

It is a giant six foot tube that sits inside all day waiting for the sun to go down revealing the moon and stars. As we waited for the moon to come out from behind a tree we pointed it at the brightest thing in the sky. As we peered into the eyepiece we could see Jupiter and two of its moons we quickly called for anyone who was in earshot to come and see. We heard them one after another gasp in awe of what they were seeing. Then the moon decided to show and we quickly pointed the scope to it. We could see incredible detail, craters, and shadows.

I happened to have my cell phone in my pocket (no, it does not work at camp) which has a camera built in. I placed it to the eye piece and snapped this photo.

I know that many campers will have a chance to use the telescope this summer, and who knows what they might find.

Grant Gordon