"In 1976, Janet and I signed up for an 'astronomy cruise' to Bermuda. We were on deck one night where Fred Hess, a planetarium expert, pointed out the star patterns visible to the naked eye. Janet used her binoculars to look at the objects described, and the high point came when we saw the Andromeda Galaxy for the first time. If the cruise had ended at that point, we would have had our money's worth."
— Isaac Asimov, from "In Joy Still Felt" (Doubleday & Company, 1980)
