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4 telescopes in front of the Great Rift Valley side of Ngong Hills, Kajiado, Kenya, in the late evening light and ready to look at the night sky. The sky is blue with some clouds. The telescopes are 1 8" Dobsonian reflector made in Turkana, Kenya, 2 6" Newtonian reflectors on German equatorial mounts (1 motorised), and a small "short tube" refractor on a table-top Dobsonian mount --
The same telescopes as in the first picture plus a pair of 10x50 binoculars on a tripod in front of the Milky Way at night. The view is facing due South, with the constellations of Carina and the Southern Cross near their highest points in the middle of the picture. Clusters in Carina and Carina Nebula are visible, as is the Coal Sack Nebula just to the lower left of the Southern Cross. Underneath the sky some acacia trees. A light from the campground's kitchen can be seen on the right, disturbing the otherwise pretty dark scene, which was darker in reality than it looks on the photo.
We celebrated the International Dark Sky Week with the Kenya Space Weekend. Even though it's the "long rains" season and generally cloudy, we were very lucky and got clear skies.
Next year, we will probably move our Dark Sky Week to a time of year that makes more sense around here.
#DarkSky #Kenya
This reminds me the story of the velveteen rabbit 🤩
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