Free telescope, Cassini videos, happy 400th Galileo's Saturn view

I was asked by a colleague to see if anyone might want a free telescope, complete with eyepieces. I asked him to take some pictures, and I am offering it to our Sidewalk Astronomy email list first. When I saw the pictures of the telescope, I just had to tell a story about it, so here's the story and the free telescope offer. First person to call Steve and arrange pickup will get it. Don't call or email me with questions - I am out of the office and traveling until Monday. http://jane.whiteoaks.com/2010/07/20/free-telescope-to-first-caller/ Steve is also featured in this awesome video from Cassini today. It's comparing Titan's lakes to Death Valley's Racetrack Playa and the video is on this page. http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/video/videodetails/?videoID=213 The YouTube version is here: http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=JPLnews#g/u Finally, back to the solar system. :-) I was in Washington DC last week as part of NASA's 400 years of Discovery - from Galileo to the Outer Planets exhibit in the U.S. House of Representatives Rayburn Office Building. The day of our event was also the 400th anniversary of Galileo's first telescopic look at Saturn. so I wrote this little piece about it for our NASA Solar system Exploration website. Ta da! http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/whatsup-archive.cfm Here is what the exhibit looked like: http://photo.whiteoaks.com/2010-07-15-DC/slides/IMG_7009.html Over and out, Jane -- Jane Houston Jones Monrovia, CA http://jane.whiteoaks.com/ http://twitter.com/jhjones What's Up for July? Dark Nebulae http://sse.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm