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Shoot for the stars

A few years ago, I attended a “star party” at Harrison Bay State Park where local astronomers set up high-tech telescopes and gave turns at their eyepieces, peering into the universe.

I saw the rings of Saturn, craters on the moon and more color than I knew existed in the night sky. I wouldn’t see color like that again until recently, when editing our first story below.

There, you’ll meet Jim Lemons, a self-taught astronomer, whose photography is quite literally out of this world.

– Sunny Montgomery, editor