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Author: Dauna Coulter | Editor: Dr. Tony Phillips | Credit: Science@NASA

Sept. 28, 2007: NASA scientists are proving that you can go home again – if you bring a telescope with you. “Home” is north Georgia’s Walker County, where astronomers Bill Cooke and Rob Suggs have just set up a research-grade observatory for their old school system.

Years ago, they won’t say how many, Cooke and Suggs attended the same high school in Walker County and after school they volunteered at the Walker County Science and Technology Center. The center’s telescopes fueled their fire for astronomy. They learned to operate the instruments, find their way around the night sky, and they took their first pictures of the Moon.

Now, photographing the Moon is something they do professionally for NASA.

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