This week, crowds gathered in one of the most densely populated places in the United States to view Saturn through a telescope, even causing a traffic jam. This is what happened.
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- A man sets up a telescope in the middle of a New York street so everyone can see what Saturn looks like
- The man was happy to share his telescope.
A man sets up a telescope in the middle of a New York street so everyone can see what Saturn looks like
Joe Delfausse, an amateur astronomer from Park Slope, Brooklyn, has made a habit of taking his telescope out onto the streets on clear nights so that everyone passing by can get a look at it.
A new viral video shows huge crowds waiting in line to peer through the Delfausse telescope, in a healthy and beautiful illustration of our never-ending wonder at what lies beyond our Blue Planet.
This man who set up his telescope in the middle of a Brooklyn highway to show outsiders what Saturn looks like has done more to calm traffic than any elected official in the lower 48 states. Let’s protect this man at all costs. pic.twitter.com/sbYC8nqBRj
—Hayden Clarkin (@the_transit_guy) August 24, 2023
And, according to the accounts of the people who went there to take a look, it was quite an occasion.
“He was really a kind of Zen Buddha in space, herding a group of hippie kids who had just left a concert,” said Daphne Juliet Ellis, a local singer who recorded the event for The Guardian. Her TikTok video has been viewed more than four million times.
The man was happy to share his telescope.
“I’m 80 years old and you want to do something meaningful with your life,” Delfausse said. “I can’t think of anything more meaningful than stargazing with other people.”
Delfausse has been fascinated by astronomy since he attended a non-profit meeting of the New York Association of Amateur Astronomers in 1995.
“The main thing I do is put my telescope out where I know there will be people, so I can show them the skies,” he told The Guardian. “You don’t need a college degree or anything like that to see Saturn and those rings,” he continued. “When you look through a telescope, they all look the same.”
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