Party beneath the stars

 The light pouring in from the dome’s rectangular opening made silhouettes out of John Novak and the large telescope he built some years back.

“It gathers a huge amount of photons at an accelerated speed,” he explained, staring at his complex assemblage of mirrors, wires and metal parts painted gold and red. “It’s similar to the imager used on the Hubble (Space Telescope).”

Determined to back up his claims, Novak, a mechanical contractor from Brooksville, stepped down from the platform where the scope was mounted and made his way to an adjoining room full of computer monitors and hardware—Novak’s control room.

A minute and several mouse clicks later, one of the monitors was awash in a rose tinted scene of stars and cosmic gas formations about 7000 light years away.

“Those are the Pillars of Creation,” Novak said.  “That’s the same shot the Hubble got.”

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