Woster: The Christmas gift that allowed me to study the vast night sky

Woster: The Christmas gift that allowed me to study the vast night sky

One Christmas Eve as a young boy, I opened an oddly shaped present and discovered a real-life telescope. For the next several years, until I got a working chemistry set with odd-smelling liquids and lotions, the telescope was my favorite Christmas gift. I had been asking for one for a couple of years. My dad got me interested in the stars and planets, taking me out in the farm yard before bedtime and pointing out various constellations, remarkab…