The telescope is a very new-looking, shiny collection of cylinders, mounted on the tripod in such a fashion that it can rotate in a full circle, or slide half a meter to either side. A swiveling, multi-jointed eyepiece occupies the narrower, low end of the telescope, and a circular wooden plate covers the last lens at the high end. The plate looks extremely out of place amongst all this burnished technology, the more so because it is unfinished pale wood, and attached to the telescope with a slapdash metal hinge. The plate has a rectangular hole cut out of the middle, large enough so that over half of the lens is exposed. I come up behind you as you regard the gleaming white geometrical object in front of you. If you wish, you may look through the eyepiece now, or we can wait to look through it after nightfall.
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(Last remodeled 6/5/02000)