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Post by Sarge on Oct 26, 2021 5:27:35 GMT
As a kid, my friends and I would lay on the ground at night, staring at the sky for hours during meteor showers, just chatting. I've never lost the wonder of looking up into the night sky and enjoy observing stars and planets through a telescope.
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Oct 26, 2021 10:04:55 GMT
I do have a telescope but its been a while since i used it.
I am considering getting a new one that is easier to carry.
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Post by transfuged on Oct 27, 2021 17:41:39 GMT
Very off reply, but who do not need a laugh ?
Holmes and Watson go camping for the night in the hills. Around midnight Holmes hears something and wakes up. He watches than deduces something, than nudges Watson awake. Dialog : Holmes :Watson, what do you see ? Watson : Er,... The scorpio is just ahead, and... I guess this is antares... And, what is this little red one, I can't actually recall her name ? Uh what, now, Holmes ! Holmes : Watson, someone stole the tent !
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Post by Sarge on Oct 29, 2021 4:39:38 GMT
Tonight was very clear so I decided to look for Uranus (queu joke: you can't find Uranus with both hands!) but I don't know the sky well enough yet to know when I'm seeing it.
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Oct 29, 2021 4:57:52 GMT
Tonight was very clear so I decided to look for Uranus (queu joke: you can't find Uranus with both hands!) but I don't know the sky well enough yet to know when I'm seeing it. There's beaucoup apps you can get that will tell you what you are looking at. Even tell you where things are that you can't see, like Pluto
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Post by Sarge on Oct 29, 2021 5:06:57 GMT
Tonight was very clear so I decided to look for Uranus (queu joke: you can't find Uranus with both hands!) but I don't know the sky well enough yet to know when I'm seeing it. There's beaucoup apps you can get that will tell you what you are looking at. Even tell you where things are that you can't see, like Pluto
I live in an area with a lot of light pollution, so there are very few stars visible to my naked eye. The apps give you a general spot in the sky but unless you can see the same stars in the app and with your naked eye, it's still very difficult to find things. Once you look through the scope, you can see hundreds more stars. I still have a lot to learn. Space is big but I'll get there.
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Oct 29, 2021 5:14:50 GMT
There's beaucoup apps you can get that will tell you what you are looking at. Even tell you where things are that you can't see, like Pluto
I live in an area with a lot of light pollution, so there are very few stars visible to my naked eye. The apps give you a general spot in the sky but unless you can see the same stars in the app and with your naked eye, it's still very difficult to find things. Once you look through the scope, you can see hundreds more stars. I still have a lot to learn. Space is big but I'll get there.
I have the same problem. The lights from Buffalo and the moisture coming from Lake Erie messes with stargazing. That's why I never got a telescope. But on the night I can see the stars, I'll be out there. pointing my phone at the darkness and looking like a fool. With the app, a clear night and a really good pair of binoculars, you can see the planets well.
Even Uranus. Looks like a small dot. Green, not brown 
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Post by Hairynosedwombat on Nov 9, 2021 19:29:48 GMT
As a kid, my friends and I would lay on the ground at night, staring at the sky for hours during meteor showers, just chatting. I've never lost the wonder of looking up into the night sky and enjoy observing stars and planets through a telescope.
[/div][/quote] I have trees surrounding my house so I can't see much but this year has been a planetary feast. All winter Jupiter was very bright above, with Saturn nearby. In early eavening Venus was near the western horizon. I missed my favourite winter sight this year, the Pleiades cluster, Betelgeuse and the Orion nebula all hanging around together. Trivia: the Japanese word for the Pleiades cluster (or the Seven Sisters) is Subaru. The logo for the Subaru car is a stylised star cluster.
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Post by NJtoTX on Nov 11, 2021 16:20:36 GMT
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Nov 12, 2021 1:57:53 GMT
I got into astronomy due to the Voyager probes. The local paper put all the photos of Jupiter's moons in a huge section and I was blown away. I remember counting the months until Saturn, Uranus and Neptune
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Post by ghostintheshell on Nov 12, 2021 6:19:34 GMT
I would love to but it's really disappointing when light pollution from the city and clouds hinder the view, plus my telescope isn't powerful enough to make a difference so a visit to the planetarium and shows like Cosmos are my only outlets :s  |
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Post by Sarge on Nov 14, 2021 4:26:42 GMT
Soon I will be heading to one of the darkest places in the United States and will be taking along my telescope. Psyched.
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Post by NJtoTX on Nov 19, 2021 9:07:25 GMT
Eclipse was/is pretty cool. My S21 camera proved to be pretty useless, even in night mode.
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Post by Catman on Nov 19, 2021 20:31:35 GMT
Catman ventured out to view the eclipse. Just a small sliver of bright, then rest was dull red. Sadly too cold out to stay until the full eclipse, so Catman went back inside and back to sleep.
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Post by Sarge on Nov 23, 2021 3:11:01 GMT
I haven't seen sky in about a week, sucks. I'm in one of the darkest places in the US, and it's 100% cloud cover all week.
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Post by NJtoTX on Nov 23, 2021 3:57:17 GMT
Other than the dippers, I don't see how people agreed on what they were seeing connect-the-dots constellations. Orion's belt, sure.  |
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Nov 24, 2021 18:21:12 GMT
Other than the dippers, I don't see how people agreed on what they were seeing connect-the-dots constellations. Orion's belt, sure. Many were made up later. All of the sky is divided into constellations, so you can say something is in Orion or Telescopium. Even though I'd be damned if you can see a telescope in that. Some you can see if you go to an cloudless, hazeless place. You can see the lion in Leo, the scorpion in Scorpius, Cassiopeia's chair. Sagittarius looks like a teapot but "Teapotius" doesn't have a ring to it. Some of them are like Waldo, once you see them, you can't unsee them. And I'd imagine the ancient Greeks had better viewing condition and the time to see a sea goat on Capricorn.
Some of it fits mythology (or mythology fit the night sky). Orion fought Taurus, the giant bull. Exactly what he looks like he's doing. Taurus even has a huge red star, Aldebaran, where his eye should be. He was hunting a hare when Taurus attacked and Lepus is running ahead of Orion. Orion was killed by the sting of a scorpion, so the Gods put Scorpius far away from Orion and Scorpius is exactly opposite in the night sky from Orion.
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Post by permutojoe on Nov 27, 2021 18:19:30 GMT
I have a star finder app on my phone. Jupiter has been as bright as I've ever seen it lately. Orion right above the ocean horizon at the beach was a nice moment in time.
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Post by Sarge on Dec 19, 2021 3:41:47 GMT
Other than the dippers, I don't see how people agreed on what they were seeing connect-the-dots constellations. Orion's belt, sure. I don't see it either, never did; but dark skies, bright minds, and few distractions, and I supposed it served a purpose for orienting oneself to the sky like landmarks on earth.
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Post by Penn Guinn on Dec 19, 2021 4:03:27 GMT
Soon I will be heading to one of the darkest places in the United States and will be taking along my telescope. Psyched. Which dark spot did you go to ? If you go to the Davis Mountains (location of the McDonald's Observatory) and stay at the Texas State Park , there are stupendous viewing opportunities. High, clear mountain air and far enough from towns and cities that the light pollution is minimum.
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