Athena entered the observatory yawning slightly, it had been a long day, but she was excited to use the telescope. She found a table and sat her belongings down. As she was getting ready to sit down to wait for class to begin, she realized that the assignment was already on the board. As she read the assignment, she slower finished lowering herself into the chair, so that by the time she was finished reading the assignment, she had to stand back up.

Walking over to the window with a sketch pad, she quickly but thoroughly drew a picture of the full moon as she saw it in that instant. She tried to accurately shade to represent the craters that she could barely make out in the surface of the moon. Luckily she had taken long enough reading and rereading the assignment so she did not have to wait for the moon to rise. “This is the perfect time to draw the moon without a telescope” She thought to herself. The optical illusion of the moon looking so much larger than it really is when it is right next to the horizon had always fascinated Athena. “I will have to remember to ask the Professor about this.” She thought to herself.

Finished with her drawing, she walked over to the telescope nearest to her. She looked inside and noticed that it was a little out of focus, probably from the last person who used it. Pulling out her wand, she gently tapped the telescope twice and murmured the incantation of auto focusing. Looking back through the telescope as she put her wand away, she was delighted to see that it had worked.

While glancing through the telescope to reference, she began drawing the moon as she saw it through her telescope. It was amazing the amount of detail that could be seen by using this device. After she finished her drawing, she went back to her table, and pulling out her book, labeled all of the craters that she could.

She again went back to the window and tried to make out different shapes from the shadows on the surface of the moon. She had heard about something called the man on the moon, and after staring at it for several minutes, suddenly she could see the image that everyone had talked about. Smiling, she redrew the picture of the moon with the emphasis of the man on the moon shaded.

Upon finishing, Athena packed up her belongings, deciding that when she got back to the common room she would add a little bit of color to her drawings to make them pretty. She turned to wave and smile at the Professor as she left, but she looked engrossed in her paper work, so she simply left, making a mental note to go talk to her in the next few days.