Journal of the Amateur Astronomers Association of New York February 2010 Volume 58 Number 2, ISSN 0146-7662 EYEPIECE would have seen and what he wouldn't. For example, he wasn't sure what Saturn's rings were. When he looked at the Milky Way with a scope, he saw innumerable stars. ... Kepler also observed a system where the light curve from the orbiting body dips more during occultation than during transit, suggesting it's much hotter than its parent star, an odd situation for a planet-star system. ...