CACHE IS NOT AT THE POSTED COORDINATES! PLEASE DO NOT GO THERE!
Welcome to the series THROUGH THE TELLESCOPE LENS! I have assorted twenty mystery caches in the Southeast Lake County area of various puzzle difficulties. This series is in memorial of the great 4xkrat who tragically left us recently. We shared three loves: astronomy, puzzles, and caching. In his honor, I have decided to combine the three things he loved into a winter break project.
(To FTF hunters: I give considerable leeway towards early puzzlers. Feel free to ask me any questions if there seems to be errors or confounding stages. There is a lot of snow pileup, and I'm more than willing to approximate how winter friendly a hide if you ask me. I will also be partially available on Saturday to VISIT some of the hides. Good luck!)
Here's a simple puzzle:
The posted coordinates are a star, and ground zero is a planet orbitting with a perfectly spherical path with a radius of 10049 feet, which is currently orbitting directly east.