[QUOTE=BrQ;25876256]I have honestly no idea why the hell you would want to watch the sky[/QUOTE]
Because it's interesting. There is so much out there, and so much going on, yet most people, like you, don't even know about it.
It's TV for the homeless. :buddy:
YouTube buffering ruined the mood :frown:.
[QUOTE=Levithan;25878986]It's TV for the homeless. :buddy:[/QUOTE]
Best description of this, ever.
[QUOTE=recrosse;24795279]I wish I had a telescope[/QUOTE]
The rich, nerdy man's hobby.
Can you see the ISS with a telescope?
I use a microscope to watch the moon :downs:
Too bad this fall has been one of the worst ever from a skywatcher's point of view. Way too many cloudy nights and just a few real good ones worth taking my telescope out for stargazing...
[QUOTE=BuG;25891411]Can you see the ISS with a telescope?[/QUOTE]
I don't see why not, but I'd imagine it will be a pain in the ass to find.
[editline]6th November 2010[/editline]
It's also probably moving too fast to notice much.
Only thing i can see at the moment is saturn :(. I hate been in the city, I see no stars :(
Is there any way to find out where the ISS is located at time x?
[QUOTE=BuG;25913607]Is there any way to find out where the ISS is located at time x?[/QUOTE]
[url]http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/index.html[/url]
(chose a country on the left)
Also tells you what direction to look and how high up in the sky.
[QUOTE=bigdoggie;25896131]I don't see why not, but I'd imagine it will be a pain in the ass to find.
It's also probably moving too fast to notice much.[/QUOTE]
I think it just looks like any satelite, a white dot reflecting the sun zooming over the sky.
I had a telescope, but its pretty dirty and broken in different parts. I'm thinking about getting just binoculars because there so easy to take to places. Is there any reason i should get a new telescope over some binoculars? Also i live in Miami so theres barely any stars most of the time.
[img]http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/9117/talv2011029.png[/img]
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's motherfucking Jupiter!
If you can tell, that is.
First picture of jupiter ever taken, with a Canon Powershot A30 held up to the eyepiece. :v:
[editline]16th January 2011[/editline]
Oh yeah and I took it at -14c.
I think my soul froze.
My dad and I used to be into astrophotography big!
I stopped since he moved away, but he still has it as a hobby.
2 of his latest
[img]http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs264.snc4/39557_1561186262642_1024886672_31617488_6877660_n.jpg[/img]
"[i]has spent over 16hours gathering the data for this. Part of the Soul nebula using narrowband filters. It is in the Hubble palette[/i]"
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"[i]First serious image from my upgraded CCD camera. The Jellyfish nebula. 12 hours of data in total shot over two nights.[/i]
Oldie Goldies
[img]http://lakestudio.co.uk/astrophotography/messier/m31/m31_050805/m31mos_0506070805.jpg[/img]
[img]http://lakestudio.co.uk/astrophotography/messier/m42/m42_010106/m42_010106.jpg[/img]
[img]http://lakestudio.co.uk/astrophotography/messier/m51/m51_020405/m51_020405.jpg[/img]
[img]http://lakestudio.co.uk/astrophotography/dso/b33/b33_171205.jpg[/img]
Just recently got an image into Januarys Astronomy Now magazine.
It's an amazing hobby to have, planning on taking it up again tbh.
It's almost fucking impossible to see anything in Kuala Lumpur. It's always fucking raining or cloudy day and night. Even though i'm nowhere near the city center, my residential area is somewhere close to the mountains. And even then i can't see anything. :(
I had a telescope when I was a kid but my city is so bright that all I got to see was the moon.
It was still cool though. :v:
Thinking of getting into astrophotography too, no tracking yet though, should I get a T-ring or a holder or similar?
You guys are so lucky to see stars.
There's too much light pollution in my area. There are no rural areas in my country ; so no chance to get away.
[url]http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3296/2971420795_01f97bb232.jpg[/url]
[url]http://img717.imageshack.us/i/nightskyline.jpg[/url]
^^^^
so bright ; you can see all the clouds.
Only on rare occasions I see Orion. :(
Whenever I hear about a meteor shower or anything I always stay up for it regardless. There was a massive meteor shower a few years ago and it started at 3AM where I was. I stayed up and my dad decided to stay up to and watch it with me.
Good times...
[QUOTE=Dav0r;27453224]My dad and I used to be into astrophotography big!
I stopped since he moved away, but he still has it as a hobby.
2 of his latest
Oldie Goldies
Just recently got an image into Januarys Astronomy Now magazine.
It's an amazing hobby to have, planning on taking it up again tbh.[/QUOTE]
Could you tell me what equipment you two are using? I got the feeling my tiny tube and system camera doesn't work lol
On New Year I tried to keep my eye on Chinese Lanterns until their flame died. This is my experience of skywatching.
I remember getting a cheap one when I was younger and It couldn't even zoom to the other side of my room
Unfortunately I'm not able to see any stars.
:smith:
:argh: Damn you light pollution!
[QUOTE=Swebonny;27456878]Could you tell me what equipment you two are using? I got the feeling my tiny tube and system camera doesn't work lol[/QUOTE]
The main scope we used was a Russian TAL 2M, huge fucker it was, but then downgraded to a smaller reflector, most of the older images I posted were with a Philips TouCam, over periods of like 3 nights per final image.
Alot of work, but so worth it.
I'm lucky to see one star living in London. It sucks.
I'd do this if it didn't fucking rain every fucking day in vancouver
My dad and I use to skywatch when I was younger. We'd camp out on our deck out back and bring out the telescope and would try to see which planets were visible.
[QUOTE=healthpoint;22539692]I can't help but laugh at how the "Professional" telescope looks like they just increased the size of the Advanced one by a few percent in photoshop or something.[/QUOTE]
Professional telescopes have built-in GPS' that track stars, the moon, etc. My father has one, it's fucking awesome.
[editline]16th January 2011[/editline]
We saw quite a few things, they were pretty cool. Countless starclusters, nebulas, etc. Space is fucking beautiful.
[editline]16th January 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=Swebonny;27456878]Could you tell me what equipment you two are using? I got the feeling my tiny tube and system camera doesn't work lol[/QUOTE]
Taking pictures is very complicated for astrophotography. It takes hours. And, what's strange is, you have to use filters to get color pictures. Otherwise, through the telescope, you only see black and white.
I only have a pair of binoculars, but you can still see some amazing things with those. Of course, it's even best if you have some understanding of what you're looking at.
When I'm in the countryside, it's one of my favourite past times to sit outside in a chair, in the middle of the night, talking and counting shooting stars. Even simple things such as the Milky Way, Cassiopeia and the Ursas are so damn exciting. In fact, I have a little story to tell:
This last summer, my house was in the middle of the countryside and my room was the only one with access to a terrace. From there you could see all around you, with only one city that was causing some light pollution, but it was far enough that a lot of stars were visible. Also the house next door had some english people who I'm really sure were swingers or something. But enough about that.
One night, I had finished seeing "Empire Strikes Back" on the room downstairs and I wasn't feeling like googling for things in bed. So I just went outside to the terrace, in the middle of the night, and laid down on the cold floor of the terrace looking up. I had brought my binoculars.
It was the night of the Perseides. I saw a lot of shooting stars, they are amazing, but because I know that they're really close, they aren't as exciting. So I looked through my binoculars at a really bright dot which I was pretty sure was Jupiter.
And there they were, the Galilean moons, 3 or 4 dots of light around it. It was the first time I had seen these, even though they are visible in the city. It's such an awesome sight. That night I also saw for the first time the Pleiades, the binary star of Albireo and I identified the constellation of Perseus.
I stayed there all night, just skywatching. It was one of the best vacations I ever spent. :unsmith:
If I get the chance, I'll try to go back there sometime.
The best part about sky watching is that it's completely free, so even if I end up a bum, jobless and penniless, I'll always have the night sky to be amazed at.
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