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From: Greg Rudzinski
Date: 2013 Sep 3, 07:20 -0700
At the beach once a dog came up to me while I was fully involved with a Sun observation. He gave me a complete olfactory inspection and was most interested in the sextant. Do you think this K9 mistook the sextant for a T-bone steak ;-)
Greg Rudzinski
Re: Funny Questions while Practicing CN (Was "The Future of CN...")
From: Sean C
Date: 2013 Sep 3, 06:09 -0700
"Any other funny questions?" -Bruce J. Pennino
I can't top the "water quality" question (LOL), but here are a few comments/questions I've heard while taking practice shots from the banks of the James River and Chesapeake Bay:
"Is that some sort of camera?"
"Ooh, look at that thing...looks complicated!"
"Do you mind if I ask exactly what you're doing?"
(Confused looks from a park ranger.)
...And then one day, as I was taking a noon sight, a grizzled, disheveled, poorly dressed man (at first I thought he might be homeless) made his way over to where I was standing.
"Celestial navigation, huh?"
You can imagine my surprise. I turned and replied, "Why, yes!"
An interesting conversation followed. Turns out this man had spent a considerable amount of time out on the Bay. He told me that a friend had begun to teach him some CN basics once, but that he never really got into it. Of course, you don't really need CN in that situation.
The man (his name escapes me now) concluded that I, "...must be a 'special' type of person to want to learn CN. Especially nowadays." (He probably also mistook me for being much younger than I am. I get that a lot.) I told him, "'Special' is one word for it." :D We had a few good laughs that day.
Regards,
Sean C.
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