He hits the downtown streets in darkness, and he's on a mission. Tinsley telescope on the streets of Pasadena, Doody said that a line of people stretched halfway down the block, and more than 900 were able to view Jupiter and some of its moons over the course of the evening. Doody said that most of the people he meets on his urban skywatching adventures have never before looked at the heavens through a telescope.
Most people are astounded.
An engineer at JPL since 1982, Doody is currently a flight operations engineer on NASA's Cassini mission to Saturn, which was launched last October on a seven-year flight to the ringed planet. His articles also appear occasionally in popular magazines. Jupiter is the main target at 8 p.m., but we may see Saturn later.