When he heard that there was Astrology offered at Hogwarts, nothing excited Altair more. He was fascinated with the stars in the night sky from the story his papa told him on the day that he was born. His mom said that he was their little star child and called him "Altair." Now, he was curious if there was perhaps more significance to his name than he knew. After all, he just discovered he was a wizard and wasn't aware that there was actual magic out in the world. Which made him think of the mother he never knew. Could she have been a witch? His father certainly couldn't recall her showing any signs of magic, but that didn't mean there wasn't the possibility.

Altair's first instinct was to go to the professor of Astrology, but he figured the man would be too busy for something irrelevant to actual lessons. He certainly didn't want to be bothersome with his own personal endeavor of discovering more of his own history. He knew he wouldn't have a lot of time before curfew to make it to the observatory, he'd heard so much about, but he wanted to use what little time he had. The sky was still rosy from the sunset, but the stars were still peaking through in the darkness.

Now, that he thought about it, Altair wasn't entirely sure if he was supposed to be up here. However, he was immediately captivated by the giant telescope before him. It was nothing like Chesire's Lovell Telescope, which was practically an antique now. It was a lot more intricate and seemed to have some magical qualities. He began to circle around it, "Hmm...gravitational lensing...off axis mirrors...adaptive optics," he observed the different parts. It was certainly advanced and combined a lot things that some of the greatest telescopes around the world, but then there were some gadgets he had no idea what they were.

Well, staring at something so magnificent certainly wasn't going to get him anywhere, but he wasn't entirely sure how to use something so grand. And the night was filling the sky more and more and that meant it was getting closer to curfew. "Maybe I should start with the smaller ones first," he said to himself as he walked over to a nearby telescope on a much smaller scale.