Sagittarius, the Archer

My first expe­ri­ence with ama­teur astron­omy was not a good one. I couldn’t find any­thing in my crude, home-built tele­scope. I had heard that mem­bers of the astron­omy club did their stargaz­ing at a site north of Colum­bus. I decided one clear night to go there and ask for some help.