Her book traces 75 great discoveries in astronomy using the words of the original papers. I imagine the books is pretty good but I didn't love the presentation. It seemed like she was reading most of it and phrases like "Aristotle has the honor of having written the oldest paper in my book" really turned me off.
Afterwards was viewing on the roof. The large telescope was on Mars, which looked pretty cool. You could make out some colors on the surface. There were 4 smaller (6-8 inch I think) telescopes set up as well. One also on Mars and one was on the Moon where you could clearly make out craters. One was on the Ring Nebula M57 though all you could see were some stars with a light haze between them. Nothing like the pictures on this amateur page. The last was on the double star Albireo. It looked just like this picture.
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