“‘World’s largest amateur telescope’ finds new home in Tooele County”

I dreamed of something like this telescope myself, when I was a late pre-teen.  But I never did it, of course — nor came anywhere close:

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865679143/Worlds-largest-amateur-telescope-finds-new-home-in-Tooele-County.html

One of the things that intervened to dampen my enthusiasm was poor eyesight, which I “discovered” only at about the age of twelve (when I had to take an eye exam for a gun safety class).  Up till then, I simply marveled at all the things that others said they saw in the night sky, somehow without realizing that I needed glasses.  It was my father who first noticed the problem, but I resisted it.

Posted from Tiberias, Israel