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6 photos taken from 1:50am to 2:40am PDT, with 10 minutes interval.

↓↓1 second exposure, taken from 2:20am to 3:10am PDT, with 10 minutes interval↓↓

↑↑1 second exposure, taken from 2:20am to 3:10am PDT, with 10 minutes interval↑↑

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Mike said it's just a psychological effect that the moon looks bigger when it's just above the horizon than when it's way up in the sky. I didn't believe it at first, but now my photos kind of proved it's true. I took the following two photos with the same lens focal length. The sizes of the moon in these two pictures are the same, although when I took the first picture, the moon did look bigger.

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Cute bunnies:

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Thank Erik for organizing the trip, driving, borrowing the telescope from UCI, and setting up the telescope. We went to Black Star Canyon to watch meteor shower, before which we went hiking at Cleveland National Forest. Actually, this place is not a real forest, in my opinion. The cacti indicate that it's more or less a desert.

Although the meteor shower wasn't so exciting as I had expected, the hiking trip was fun, the dinner at Chili's was delicious, and it's very interesting watching Jupiter and all sorts of stars, galaxies and clusters using the telescope.

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• Landscapes
• Plants
• Birds

We passed by this nature trail but we didn't hike it.

What a cool party! We played beach soccer. We swam in the ocean. We ate beef, pork, chicken, lamb, fish, shrimps, and clams. And then we watched the sunset, which is absolutely neat.

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