Kodank Moment
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Thought it was just weird nachos. Makes more sense now.
Have you ever looked up at the sky
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Friedrice
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dirtyho1968
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Just yanking your chain.
Total Head
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living in the city ruins the sky. i didn't see the actual sky until i was in my 20s. i was on a trip to the cape and i got drunk and stoned and went out on the deck and screamed "HOLY SHIT WHERE DID ALL THOSE STARS COME FROM? HOLY SHIT WOW!" i went on and on about it for about 15 minutes because i had never in my life seen so many and i just couldn't get over it. people still give me shit about it.
it's like that story about los angeles after the earthquake in '94 caused a blackout and people were calling the police freaking out about the sky looking all weird with weird colored clouds and shit. they were seeing the milky way.
it's like that story about los angeles after the earthquake in '94 caused a blackout and people were calling the police freaking out about the sky looking all weird with weird colored clouds and shit. they were seeing the milky way.
Dr. Greenhorn
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I was just staring up at the milky way The other night. Stargazing is great where i am at
Comatoke
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Ugh I'm a city man, can see the big and little dipper and SOMETIMES Orion, I love when I go south into the country because not only does it make me amazed to be on this plane for the short time I am, it blows my FUCKING BRAIN OFF!
cannabineer
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When I have the chance to stare at the summer Galaxy through my 10x70s from a truly dark location, something amazing happens ... something even the beautiful pictures on the Net cannot convey.
I get the strong sense that I am staring into a storm, as violent as any hurricane, just on a timescale millions, perhaps billions of times slower than the human. The sense of frozen violence is palpable, and it does not fail to make the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. cn
Dr. Greenhorn
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I'd think you'd shoota load in your pants if you got to stargaze here. The skies are so clear, except when the kona winds come and blow all the vog this way
Red1966
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You have eye worms?
cannabineer
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One of my favorite astro books is written by a fellow who has two amazing bits of good fortune: outstanding eyes and a home at about 8500 feet above Hilo.
He sees detail with a 4-inch refractor that I can't even match with a much larger 'scope.
Deep-Sky Companions: The Messier Objects by Stephen J. O'Meara. cn
Dr. Greenhorn
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One day I'll try and get a pic for you bear, I'm a horrible photographer though..I'll try
cannabineer
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I was on the Big Island in '96. I love that place, and would live there if I could. But other duties keep me in the 'Stan, and honestly the skies here, while not great, are pretty good. Yosemite is not too far, and the skies can get pitch-****ing-black there. And Death Valley, or rather the surrounding mountains, are glorious stargazing spots as well. Have you ever seen a sky so pristine-black that you got the illusion that the stars were just beyond arm's reach? without drugs even?
read this..
http://www.skyandtelescope.com/equipment/basics/12511616.html
get a 6+ inch for the cooler stuff..
fwiw.. borrowed my FIL's scope for a few weeks last year.. it got pretty boring pretty quick.. he was using a 4 inch and not impressive
I do love the android star apps too..
MojoRison
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That's a big ten 4...When I was about 10-11, my family rented a huge RV and went traveling for the summer. We had driven for most of the day and ended up stopping one weekend just outside of Algonquin Park. Later that night I stepped out to use the first tree on the left {the girls was the tree on the right} and was struck dumb by what I was seeing. The horizon ended and what lay beyond was for me life changing, there it was....the universe. I felt adrift in it, the more I looked the more it revealed itself to me, it was if I were being born once again. I've often felt that my use of drugs was an attempt, though an unconscious one at the time to capture that feeling again.
cannabineer
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10x70 binoculars ... the very best beginner optics. They'll whet your appetite. Telescopes are just slower and harder to get and keep in[to] play, and binos are so effortless. Grab, point, go ooooh. Many nights I can't be bothered to hump out the 'scope ... I'll still greb binos and challenge myself with faint fuzzies. cn
cannabineer
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It was inevitable, Mojo. You reminded me also that when I saw the sky that black, I knew where the horizon was because that is where the starts just ... ended. cn
You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to MojoRison again.
cannabineer
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Word of advice: don't rassle an 80-pound telescope while full of wine!! Gravity develops a rather evil sense of humor.
Tonight I have the big glass in the back yard. The night is warm but not especially transparent. I'm checling out old friends such as NGC 6144, M4's "little sister".
I just came from a bit of starhopping: 17 Comae to NGC 4494 (a decently bright, condensed elliptical) on to NGC 4565, one of the two great edge-on spirals in our Northern sky. The other is NGC 891 in Perseus, good for the waning half of the year. I get a quiet thrill of capturing and accepting photons as old as the last dinosaurs. cn
Tonight I have the big glass in the back yard. The night is warm but not especially transparent. I'm checling out old friends such as NGC 6144, M4's "little sister".
I just came from a bit of starhopping: 17 Comae to NGC 4494 (a decently bright, condensed elliptical) on to NGC 4565, one of the two great edge-on spirals in our Northern sky. The other is NGC 891 in Perseus, good for the waning half of the year. I get a quiet thrill of capturing and accepting photons as old as the last dinosaurs. cn
dirtyho1968
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I'll be admiring them next week in the sierras 
. Sunday is not looking so good for clear skies but the rest of the week looks great. Highs around 75 in the day and clear skies at night. Gonna be a great trip. Maybe i should shoot over to Yosemite 1 evening and hang with this guy?
. Sunday is not looking so good for clear skies but the rest of the week looks great. Highs around 75 in the day and clear skies at night. Gonna be a great trip. Maybe i should shoot over to Yosemite 1 evening and hang with this guy?