[Aracelis]

Speaking of "Geeks gone wild", at my old alma mater, I was pres of the Astronomical Society, and we had unlimited access to the telescope atop the geology building. Ahem..one night, as I was checking the telescope prior to a sky show for the local Boy Scout troop, I happened to observe that the college dorms were readily viewable from our little observatory. 'Nuff said.

[RadioAstronomer]

I happened to observe that the college dorms were readily viewable from our little observatory

ROFL! Of course as president you immediately put stops in the mount so it could not point in that direction! /sarcasm off>

[longshadow]

Ahem..one night, as I was checking the telescope prior to a sky show for the local Boy Scout troop, I happened to observe that the college dorms were readily viewable from our little observatory. 'Nuff said.

They don't call Astronomy the "Study of Heavenly Bodies" for nothing.......

The bigger question is how did you log the experience in your Observation Notebook:

"a blonde-colored object, with multiple appendages and a dark patch in the Southern Region, was sighted near the horizon at 0417UT with 25mm eyepiece using the 12" refractor; does not match anything in the star atlas, Verhenberg's Deep-Sky Atlas, or any of the Messier Objects, and it's position does not conform to the ephemeris of any known comet. A more detailed and a closer inspection is required to fully resolve this object...."