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Title: Anyone like Astronomy?
Post by: Dark_4ce on July 30, 2003, 04:35:19 pm: Hey everyone! Been away a while, I know, been taking in the RARE and beautiful weather here. Anyway, I just broke out my old telescope from when I was a kid and have totally got suckered into Astronomy? You wanna know why? Well, since I moved into this appartment, each night I always saw this one star go by my window, and I always took it as a sign for me to go to bed, because it was always around 12:30 and 1:00. But lately I started to wonder what real star it was, because its become such a rutine sight. Well it turns out to be none other than... CAPELLA! :D So now I've totally gone nuts with my telescope and looking at everything! Anyone here do it? I also managed to take a rather nice photo of mars the other day too!
(http://www.dawnkill.com/Helsinki/mars.jpg)

OK. So I might be getting a little over exited. But its still quite cool to see stuff millions of KM aways other than by seeing it on tv. Viewing it from your own home makes it more... "real".
Title: Anyone like Astronomy?
Post by: castor on July 30, 2003, 06:26:13 pm: CAPELLA! Wow :)

Yea, stargazing is a nice hobby.
Too bad most of us nowadays got at least streetlights (if nothing else) to mess up the night sky :(

No point to get a telescope here.. if i lived at rural area i'd get one, for sure.
Title: Anyone like Astronomy?
Post by: Grey Wolf on July 30, 2003, 07:54:17 pm: Yeah, light pollution really ruins the fun of stargazing :(
Title: Anyone like Astronomy?
Post by: pyro-manic on July 30, 2003, 08:46:47 pm: 'S interesting stuff, but it's crap where I live. You have to drive for like an hour into the hills to get away from the lights, and even then you can only just see the Milky Way, and it's still kinda faint.

Dark_4ce: Have you seen Saturn yet? You need a big-ass telescope, but it's beautiful if you see it with it's rings. I got to have a go with a big 8-inch 'scope at my local college observatory - that's always worth a try.
Title: Anyone like Astronomy?
Post by: Anaz on July 30, 2003, 09:16:59 pm: we have a fairly big home telescope, but my parents never drag it out (nor will they let me drag it out)... :(
Title: Anyone like Astronomy?
Post by: Stryke 9 on July 30, 2003, 09:24:24 pm: The only lights in the sky at night here are the overpassing planes. And these wierd flashes and ****, but you can barely make out the Big Dipper on a good night. I'd almost forgotten they were there when I went out on a trip a month back and actually got to see the Milky Way for the first time in... years, possibly.
Title: Re: Anyone like Astronomy?
Post by: Deepblue on July 30, 2003, 09:43:45 pm: argh.
Title: Re: Anyone like Astronomy?
Post by: Deepblue on July 30, 2003, 09:44:37 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Dark_4ce
star go by my window

I Didnt know stars moved that quickly.
Title: Anyone like Astronomy?
Post by: diamondgeezer on July 31, 2003, 12:42:14 am: My family home is right next to Heathrow. Buggered if you can see more than one star at a time. Bastards.
Title: Anyone like Astronomy?
Post by: Charmande on July 31, 2003, 01:21:04 am: http://www.space.com/spacewatch/mars_preview_021108.html

August 28th, Mars, BE THERE.

I live in phoenix, AZ, ... so the city lights block out the stars pretty bad... but i do live in a rural area, so its not too bad. Even if you drive 100 miles away, you can still see the glow from phoenix city lights.

I have a good sized telescope, it looks like a sci-fi weapon of some sort. boomboom.
Title: Anyone like Astronomy?
Post by: Krackers87 on July 31, 2003, 01:46:00 am
Title: Anyone like Astronomy?
Post by: Stryke 9 on July 31, 2003, 01:54:34 am: You're an imbecile.
Title: Anyone like Astronomy?
Post by: diamondgeezer on July 31, 2003, 02:30:14 am: Well there goes any respect I might have had for Krackers
Title: Anyone like Astronomy?
Post by: Stryke 9 on July 31, 2003, 02:34:18 am: You had some left? At this point, I've resorted to losing respect for the people who have respect for him... and at the rate he's going, I'll have to stop respecting the people who respect them any day now.
Title: Anyone like Astronomy?
Post by: diamondgeezer on July 31, 2003, 02:42:22 am: The last time I saw a post of his was that thingy with the sphere he'd made. Which was a nice model. I hope Narol knows what he's doing.
Title: Anyone like Astronomy?
Post by: Dark_4ce on July 31, 2003, 03:50:13 am: Ooh. Just took a look at the sun right now. Thats also cool to look at! Can't see any flares though, cause I don't have any lenses that can make an artificial eclipse and I think you can only have thoe on BIG telescopes. But I do see clearly all its sun spots and stuff. Fun fun fun.... :D
Title: Anyone like Astronomy?
Post by: Krackers87 on July 31, 2003, 11:37:04 am: effect on little or no sleep on a person....
Title: Anyone like Astronomy?
Post by: Stryke 9 on July 31, 2003, 02:07:44 pm: Bull****. I take my sleep in milligrams these days, you don't see me gibbering like a monkey.

Well, except for that one time, in church. Naked. With the feces-throwing.
Title: Anyone like Astronomy?
Post by: 01010 on July 31, 2003, 05:31:29 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Stryke 9
Bull****. I take my sleep in milligrams these days, you don't see me gibbering like a monkey.

Well, except for that one time, in church. Naked. With the feces-throwing.

Yeah, but what do you expect from a catholic priest?
Title: Anyone like Astronomy?
Post by: Stryke 9 on July 31, 2003, 07:22:18 pm: I haven't been ordained yet.
Title: Anyone like Astronomy?
Post by: Krackers87 on August 01, 2003, 01:53:02 am: Quote
Originally posted by Stryke 9
Bull****. I take my sleep in milligrams these days, you don't see me gibbering like a monkey.

Well, except for that one time, in church. Naked. With the feces-throwing.

1 im not you
2 im sorry
3 im used to getting more sleep
4 im 15 and have a damned right to be crazy and immature

: P
Title: Anyone like Astronomy?
Post by: 01010 on August 01, 2003, 12:31:12 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Stryke 9
I haven't been ordained yet.

With that kind of behaviour it won't take long. Hey, when you are can you absolve my sins, they are numerous and quite nasty but what the hell. I'm game.
Title: Anyone like Astronomy?
Post by: Grey Wolf on August 01, 2003, 01:07:46 pm: *Puts the "Stop bashing Cathlics you ****ing morons" sign out*
Title: Anyone like Astronomy?
Post by: an0n on August 01, 2003, 01:11:36 pm: Quote
Originally posted by diamondgeezer
I hope Narol knows what he's doing.

<----*points*

I think it's fairly obvious that he doesn't.
Title: Anyone like Astronomy?
Post by: an0n on August 01, 2003, 01:12:45 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Grey Wolf 2009
*Puts the "Stop bashing Cathlics you ****ing morons" sign out*

*switches "We want abortion!" signs for "Kill the Jews" signs*
Title: Anyone like Astronomy?
Post by: delta_7890 on August 01, 2003, 01:21:54 pm: Quote
Originally posted by an0n

*switches "We want abortion!" signs for "Kill the Jews" signs*

*cringes* ...Nothing good will come of this...
Title: Anyone like Astronomy?
Post by: Grey Wolf on August 01, 2003, 01:29:07 pm: Quote
Originally posted by an0n

*switches "We want abortion!" signs for "Kill the Jews" signs*
:confused:
Title: Anyone like Astronomy?
Post by: Dark_4ce on August 01, 2003, 02:09:19 pm: What the hell has all this got to do with astronomy? I mean my god people, stick to the subject atleast. :rolleyes:
Title: Anyone like Astronomy?
Post by: Razor on August 01, 2003, 02:42:59 pm: Quote
Originally posted by an0n

signs for "Kill the Jews" signs*

:wtf:
Title: Re: Anyone like Astronomy?
Post by: J.F.K. on August 02, 2003, 12:48:42 am: Quote
Originally posted by Dark_4ce
I also managed to take a rather nice photo of mars the other day too!
(http://www.dawnkill.com/Helsinki/mars.jpg)

OK. So I might be getting a little over exited. But its still quite cool to see stuff millions of KM aways other than by seeing it on tv. Viewing it from your own home makes it more... "real".

Nice one! Could adjusting your focus make that even clearer, or am I dreaming? :)
Title: Anyone like Astronomy?
Post by: Dark_4ce on August 02, 2003, 03:14:16 am: Don't have that powerful of a telescope. Don't have a strong enough eye piece for it. I only have a 4mm and a 12.5mm eye piece. I used the 4mm one and it was a very humid day as well, so it blurred the picture quite a bit. But still proud of it. :D
Title: Anyone like Astronomy?
Post by: diamondgeezer on August 02, 2003, 03:21:30 am: Er... is any one else seeing a Razor post here? I'm asuming it's authentic since he's still thick.
Title: Anyone like Astronomy?
Post by: 01010 on August 02, 2003, 06:02:10 am: Quote
Originally posted by Grey Wolf 2009
:confused:

Unaware of the Catholic churches stance on the Holocaust? I'm not sure how it is now but they used to deny it happened pretty much.
Title: Anyone like Astronomy?
Post by: Dark_4ce on August 02, 2003, 06:20:39 am: Really, what has any of this got to do with the subject?
Title: Anyone like Astronomy?
Post by: Black Wolf on August 02, 2003, 12:15:19 pm: I love my house for astronomy - We have no streetlights up here, we're on a hill, and we live on the outskirts of a medium sized town, so there's limited light pollution. You can see the milky way practically every summer night.

It's even better the further east you go - I took a biology excursion out to this semi remote national park thing last year - beautiful night sky, buit it was too damned cold to enjoy for too long :).
Title: Anyone like Astronomy?
Post by: Dark_4ce on August 02, 2003, 12:26:44 pm: Yeah, I know what you mean. The best time to view the stars here in Finland is during winter. And it gets REAL cold here. So I'll have to live with looking through glass, or if its not too cold outside and not covered by clouds (however unlikely) I'll drag the ol' scope outside. :D I've been looking at the moon now, OH MAN is it beautiful!