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Anonymous Sun 27 Oct 19:10:14 2019 No.11096574 View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>11096761 >>11099342 >>11099931 >>11104089 >>11108038 >>11108320 >>11109624

Share your recent observations.

I managed to view Messier 1 with a 10" Dob last night for the first time. It was as dim as possible with direct vision.
The night sky here falls under Bortle scale 6-7.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 27 Oct 2019 19:15:08 No.11096594 Report

Quoted By: >>11096628 >>11104070

I'm planning to purchase my first ever telescope soon and begin making some observations, but I have no idea what I'm doing. Can somebody give me some pointers re: what type of telescope to buy, best weather conditions/locations for astronomy? Cheers in advance my fellas

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Anonymous Sun 27 Oct 2019 19:23:09 No.11096619 Report

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I think I saw a star relatively recently.

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Anonymous Sun 27 Oct 2019 19:26:45 No.11096628 Report

Quoted By: >>11105883 >>11106735

>>11096594
I suggest a budget refractor or a 6-8" reflector to start. Refractors are good to go out of the box; reflectors need collimating/alightment.

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Anonymous Sun 27 Oct 2019 19:35:38 No.11096651 Report

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>>11096619

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Anonymous Sun 27 Oct 2019 19:48:14 No.11096693 Report

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>>11096651
>you can tell them apart because this ones a big blue dot and this ones a big blue dot and this ones a yellowish dot but this ones a big blue dot and this ones another yellow dot

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Anonymous Sun 27 Oct 2019 20:10:49 No.11096742 Report

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>>11096693
Anything to contribute to the thread?

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Anonymous Sun 27 Oct 2019 20:19:51 No.11096761 Report

Quoted By: >>11098611 >>11099359 >>11104102

>>11096574
Check out my first jab at astrophotography :)
Anyone know the cluster on the bottom-right?

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Anonymous Mon 28 Oct 2019 11:05:26 No.11098611 Report

Quoted By: >>11099476 >>11099592

>>11096761
If your NH and that's Cassiopeia in the top right then bottom right cluster is likely the Pleiades.

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Anonymous Mon 28 Oct 2019 17:00:04 No.11099342 Report

Quoted By: >>11103986

>>11096574
>managed to view Messier 1
Here's my picture of it. It's annoying when you observe it visually, you want to look directly at it but as soon as you do that it disappears.

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Anonymous Mon 28 Oct 2019 17:08:54 No.11099359 Report

Quoted By: >>11099476 >>11099592

>>11096761
>Anyone know the cluster on the bottom-right?
Pleaides

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Anonymous Mon 28 Oct 2019 18:04:08 No.11099476 Report

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>>11098611
>>11099359
Sweet

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Anonymous Mon 28 Oct 2019 18:55:33 No.11099574 Report

Quoted By: >>11099586 >>11099598

>>11099476
Andromeda is visible in your image.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 28 Oct 2019 19:03:23 No.11099586 Report

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>>11099574
Oh damn that's awesome

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 28 Oct 2019 19:04:43 No.11099592 Report

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>>11099359
>>11098611
pleiades are the reason i got hooked

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 28 Oct 2019 19:07:48 No.11099598 Report

Quoted By: >>11099617

>>11099574
If you have a small telescope, like 3-4 inches diameter, which can handle at least 50x magnification, try NGC 7662 in andromeda.
Nice and very underestimated planetary nebula.
Haven't used my telescope in years though, since my job makes me tired every night...

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 28 Oct 2019 19:19:17 No.11099617 Report

Quoted By: >>11101538

>>11099598
>try NGC 7662 in andromeda
Oh yeah, the blue snowball. I'll have to check that one out when the weather and moon allows for it.
The only planetary nebulae I've looked at through my telescope is the ring nebula, crab nebula and the owl nebula. The ring nebula was the coolest of the three.

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Anonymous Mon 28 Oct 2019 19:22:19 No.11099626 Report

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>>11096742
imagine getting assblasted over stars

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Anonymous Mon 28 Oct 2019 19:35:23 No.11099655 Report

Quoted By: >>11099677

>>11099626
no u

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Anonymous Mon 28 Oct 2019 19:43:20 No.11099677 Report

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>>11099655

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Anonymous Mon 28 Oct 2019 19:45:29 No.11099681 Report

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>>11099677
hah gottem

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Anonymous Mon 28 Oct 2019 19:46:25 No.11099683 Report

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>>11099681
im calling moot

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Anonymous Mon 28 Oct 2019 19:48:50 No.11099692 Report

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What is that moon sized collection of 7-8 stars to the far right of the big dipper?

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Anonymous Mon 28 Oct 2019 20:04:06 No.11099733 Report

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>>11096651
> ywn use your spaceship to fly to the set of greenedraw.com, where Zerg from Rigil Kentaurus is producing another contender for the intergalactic porn oscar

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Anonymous Mon 28 Oct 2019 20:06:46 No.11099743 Report

Quoted By: >>11105951

>>11099733
>ywn know the method the rest of the galaxy is using to share interstellar porn
>everyone is laughing at us for thinking our beamed out radio transmissions mean anything

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Anonymous Mon 28 Oct 2019 21:05:30 No.11099931 Report

Quoted By: >>11099941 >>11108302

>>11096574
How much is the nightsky changing with satellites?

Last i saw a perfect clear greens and purple milkyway was sailing in 2016. I could see satellites then and the ISS ofcourse and the novelty was cool but the super constellations have me worried.

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Anonymous Mon 28 Oct 2019 21:07:19 No.11099941 Report

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>>11099931
>being too casual to satgaze the Musk swarms
Speed up old timer

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Anonymous Tue 29 Oct 2019 06:19:44 No.11101538 Report

Quoted By: >>11102552

>>11099617
>moon allows for it.
don't wait for the moon
NGC 7662 is small and bright, moon doesn't harm it much. You just need higher magnification to distinguish it from an ordinary star.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 29 Oct 2019 17:19:40 No.11102552 Report

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>>11101538
>You just need higher magnification to distinguish it from an ordinary star.
I have an 8inch reflector so viewing it won't be a problem. Damn, now I'm really
Keen to go out and do some stargazing. It was a while since I did some visual observations, I've mostly done astrophotography.

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Anonymous Tue 29 Oct 2019 19:28:07 No.11102904 Report

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/p/ also sometimes has some cool astro stuff

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Anonymous Tue 29 Oct 2019 21:36:31 No.11103108 Report

Quoted By: >>11103342 >>11103981

How much would I have to spend to be able to see some interesting stuff in outer space? And preferably take nice pictures.
This was a childhood dream.

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Anonymous Tue 29 Oct 2019 23:07:02 No.11103342 Report

Quoted By: >>11104671 >>11105480

>>11103108
Just to see cool stuff? 600 for an 8-inch dob and all the stuff, photos are overrated, rarely ever compete with your eye unless you wanna fork over more than a thousand for tracking mounts and stuff

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 30 Oct 2019 02:44:05 No.11103981 Report

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>>11103108
a decent binocular is a good start

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Anonymous Wed 30 Oct 2019 02:46:57 No.11103986 Report

Quoted By: >>11105806

>>11099342
is that fake? I unironically haven't seen more than 3 stars in years

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 30 Oct 2019 03:19:59 No.11104070 Report

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>>11096594
If you don't know the sky, you won't know where to point the scope. My recommendation: buy a big pair of decent but cheap binoculars (suggest Celestron 15x70s), a tripod adapter, and a tripod. If you find the sky is boring, you'll still have good binocs. Also buy the book "The Stars: A New Way To See Them" by H. A. Rey (of "Curious George" fame). It's as little $4 on EBay. Learn the sky with the book and binocs, then consider a scope. Try going to a star party to get an idea of what they do before you buy.

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Anonymous Wed 30 Oct 2019 03:28:55 No.11104089 Report

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>>11096574
Wow I didn't know that Jupiter is basically as bright as the moon in the rural sky
>>11096651
>All these cool (hot) stars
>You will never get the chance to visit them all
It hurts bros

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Anonymous Wed 30 Oct 2019 03:32:38 No.11104102 Report

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>>11096761
You've got pretty much this going on. So you're in a very southern state and you took this about 7 PM.

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Anonymous Wed 30 Oct 2019 08:42:08 No.11104671 Report

Quoted By: >>11105480 >>11106178

>>11103342
Thanks. That's a lot for a start, but I'll save up for it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 30 Oct 2019 15:44:43 No.11105480 Report

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>>11103342
>>11104671
On Amazon : Sky-Watcher 8" Collapsible Dobsonian Telescope for 455$
You may get at least a 7mm-21mm zoom eyepiece for
easily track and watch (60$).
A laser-collimater is also advised for a Dob (around 30$).

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Anonymous Wed 30 Oct 2019 18:31:13 No.11105806 Report

Quoted By: >>11105821 >>11105831 >>11105833

>>11103986
>is that fake?
Nope, and it's not even my best picture. This picture of M51 would be one of the best images I've taken. My camera takes monochrome images but I produced this color image by snapping three pictures with a red, green and blue color filter and then combining the three into one final image.
In truth I don't just take three images because each color set consist of a dozen exposures. Galaxies and nebulae are very dim objects so the signal will be on the same level as the noise that the camera sensor produces. So to get rid of the noise and get a clearer picture you can take many pictures and then average out the noise.
When I created this image of M51 I took 16 images with the red filter, 10 with the green and I was planning to take 10 with the blue but unfortunately the battery that powers the camera was starting to lose its charge so it couldn't provide enough juice to power the camera which resulted in it producing fucked up pictures. The first exposure came out fine but the rest had these black lines going across the image which was a shame because then I couldn't filter out the noise on the blue channel which is why the background isn't completely black. It's more blueish and noisy.

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Anonymous Wed 30 Oct 2019 18:38:10 No.11105821 Report

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>>11105806
>The first exposure came out fine but the rest had these black lines going across the image
Here's an example of one of those exposures that came out wrong due to the battery. It made me really worried because I first thought the camera was broken and I had spent a lot of money on the damn thing. Luckily it was just the battery.

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Anonymous Wed 30 Oct 2019 18:44:43 No.11105831 Report

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>>11105806
>So to get rid of the noise and get a clearer picture you can take many pictures and then average out the noise.
Here's an image that shows what stacking images can do to the noise level.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 30 Oct 2019 18:45:18 No.11105833 Report

Quoted By: >>11105875

>>11105806
Fucking hell I need to get me a telescope, care to post your setup?

Awesome pic

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 30 Oct 2019 18:54:36 No.11105854 Report

Quoted By: >>11105903

I always wanted a telescope, nut never knew what to look for. Any tips?
Is magnification the most important thing too look for?

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Anonymous Wed 30 Oct 2019 19:03:11 No.11105875 Report

Quoted By: >>11105888

>>11105833
>care to post your setup?
Here it is. The biggest challenge with astrophotography is to keep the object completely still as you're taking the exposure. I usually do 5min exposures and if the object isn't still it will produce blurry images.
My telescope is mounted on a motorized equatorial mount and if the mounts rotational axis is exactly parallel with the earths then in theory you would only need to rotate one axis to follow objects in the sky but it's almost impossible to reach that level of precision which is why I have a smaller telescope attached to the larger one. The larger one is the one that's taking the photographs while the smaller ones job is to keep track on a single star and if it notices that the star deviates from the center it will send correction commands to the mount and bring it back to the center which also results in the object being photographed to be completely still.

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Anonymous Wed 30 Oct 2019 19:09:23 No.11105883 Report

Quoted By: >>11105985

>>11096628
Any collimation tips /sci/? I have watched the YouTubes and I think my collection mirror is straight. I don't have a cap, cateye, or laser, as I would like to be able to collimate without. I own a Meade Polaris 130. I can't seem to get the aberrations (rainbows and starbursts) out. I mostly view planets, and I know this scope is better for nebulas etc., and my backyard is 7 transitioned to 4 (live behind a mountain blocking city lights). I have used Meade Plossls and the Chinese Asperics. Is it just a shitty 'scope?

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Anonymous Wed 30 Oct 2019 19:11:36 No.11105888 Report

Quoted By: >>11105941 >>11105962

>>11105875
>The larger one is the one that's taking the photographs

How does that work? I mean, does the telescope has a camera integrated or is the laptop taking the pics?

What operative system is needed for the laptop's program? Windows?

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Anonymous Wed 30 Oct 2019 19:19:56 No.11105903 Report

Quoted By: >>11106370

>>11105854
>Is magnification the most important thing too look for?
No. High magnification is useless in small telescopes since everything will be blurry due to the angular resolution being reached.
Imagine you have two stars in the night sky that is separated by a tiny degree and you have two telescopes which have the same magnification but different mirror sizes (lenses if we're talking about refractor telescopes). In the small telescope the two stars will look like one single dot while in the larger one you will see two sharper dots with a gap between. In the small telescope the angular resolution has been reached while in the bigger one it has not so what you want to look for is aperture size but the downsize to that is you will lose portability so you'll have to find a balance point.
I would recommend that you read up on different telescope types, how they work and operate, things like that.

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Anonymous Wed 30 Oct 2019 19:34:59 No.11105941 Report

Quoted By: >>11105962 >>11106012

>>11105888
>I mean, does the telescope has a camera integrated or is the laptop taking the pics?
The camera is just mounted on the focuser of the telescope with a filter wheel in between. The laptop is what I use to control the imaging camera, mount, and guide camera.

>What operative system is needed for the laptop's program? Windows?
I use Windows 7

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Anonymous Wed 30 Oct 2019 19:40:38 No.11105951 Report

Quoted By: >>11106014

>>11099743
>105,700 light years
Didn't realize it was this bad.

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Anonymous Wed 30 Oct 2019 19:45:12 No.11105962 Report

Quoted By: >>11106012 >>11106031

>>11105888
>>11105941
Here's the camera and filter wheel.

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Anonymous Wed 30 Oct 2019 19:52:50 No.11105985 Report

Quoted By: >>11106025

>>11105883
>I don't have a cap, cateye, or laser, as I would like to be able to collimate without.
The most accurate way to collimate a telescope from what I understand is by star testing. Putting a star out of focus. I guess it's a hard technique to master but a good one to know as an amateur astronomer, also you need no tools.

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Anonymous Wed 30 Oct 2019 19:55:48 No.11105992 Report

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>tfw metropolis
one day...

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Anonymous Wed 30 Oct 2019 20:03:33 No.11106012 Report

Quoted By: >>11106031 >>11106069

>>11105941
>>11105962
Nice, thank you for the info, I'll start investigating from these

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 30 Oct 2019 20:04:06 No.11106014 Report

Quoted By: >>11106026

>>11105951
Bad?

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Anonymous Wed 30 Oct 2019 20:10:12 No.11106025 Report

Quoted By: >>11106057

>>11105985
Your picture looks like from maksutov whose collimation isn't a thing for an amateur.
Ordinary newtonian is on the other hand ment to be collimated by an ordinary owner.

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Anonymous Wed 30 Oct 2019 20:10:42 No.11106026 Report

Quoted By: >>11106152

>>11106014
I suppose it just means there's so much more to be explored. Doesn't matter because we'll all be dead anyway.
>tfw born 800 years early

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Anonymous Wed 30 Oct 2019 20:12:01 No.11106031 Report

Quoted By: >>11106098

>>11105962
>>11106012
The camera also has a peltier cooler so that you can cool down the sensor which will significantly reduce the sensor noise. I think it can reduce the temperature by 20°C below ambient temperature. Really nice feature.

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Anonymous Wed 30 Oct 2019 20:21:00 No.11106057 Report

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>>11106025
>Your picture looks like from maksutov
Yeah, it's from a maksutov or a schmidt cassegrain. I just wanted to use a picture togheter with my post.
>whose collimation isn't a thing for an amateur.
It's a little trickier I would think but I would not say it's outside the limit of an amateur. Collimation by star testing is doable even with catadioptric reflectors.

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Anonymous Wed 30 Oct 2019 20:26:36 No.11106069 Report

Quoted By: >>11106098 >>11106105 >>11108377

>>11106012
You're gonna spend a ton of money for a very intensive and frustrating hobby. Hope you're ready.

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Anonymous Wed 30 Oct 2019 20:38:40 No.11106098 Report

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>>11106069
I imagine it is not going to be cheap, but I have so much shit going on that I can't get into this right now, I'm seeing it as long term project, the information provided by this anon >>11106031 seems to me as a good head start

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Anonymous Wed 30 Oct 2019 20:41:20 No.11106105 Report

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>>11106069
>frustrating hobby.
Air humidity is my worst enemy. It's so annoying watching the exposures getting darker and darker as the dew builds up on the mirrors. After that you can't do anything but dismantle the whole rig and call it a day (night).
I'm not so keen on using heat bands since that would probably introduce air turbulence in the telescope tube since I'm using a reflector.

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Anonymous Wed 30 Oct 2019 20:59:07 No.11106152 Report

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>>11106026
Imagine being those first lucky few who make it
Getting to ramble on about the old days when people died in less than a century

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 30 Oct 2019 21:05:50 No.11106178 Report

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>>11104671
If you want really cheap then you can buy a 4.5in tabletop telescope called starblast that can do some good.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 30 Oct 2019 22:19:02 No.11106370 Report

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>>11105903

Thanks!

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 31 Oct 2019 00:09:58 No.11106606 Report

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>>11099592
There's a little public observatory with telescope pads near Joshua Tree NP, and when I was younger my dad and I stopped by there on a road trip for one of their public stargazing nights. One guy had his scope on the Pleiades, and was encouraging people to stop by and look because the view was great- it was a perfect clear and dry night.

I can confidently say that it was and is the most beautiful thing I've ever seen.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 31 Oct 2019 01:06:46 No.11106735 Report

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>>11096628
Love those dobsonians, easy as hell to pull out, not too heavy, basically all one piece. Hard to screw up if you're a beginner, and you can see some good things.

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Anonymous Thu 31 Oct 2019 01:09:46 No.11106744 Report

Quoted By: >>11107656 >>11109504

>>11096651
Why not the brightest star in the night sky: the sun?

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Anonymous Thu 31 Oct 2019 12:50:03 No.11107656 Report

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>>11106744
>night sky
>the sun

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Anonymous Thu 31 Oct 2019 16:46:59 No.11108038 Report

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>>11096574
i saw the orionids last week
also a flock of glowing birds

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Anonymous Thu 31 Oct 2019 19:14:19 No.11108296 Report

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9 here and not even inner city. Think I saw jupiter once.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 31 Oct 2019 19:16:05 No.11108302 Report

Quoted By: >>11108305

>>11099931
Will utterly destroy Astronomy and Stargazing as we know it if we don't act now.
Write to your local representatives, get in contact with local environmentalist groups, urge local astronomers to join the anti-sat movement
Band up! Resist!

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 31 Oct 2019 19:18:26 No.11108305 Report

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>>11108302
If human activity in space is rampant enough to ruin amateur stargazing, that's a good thing.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 31 Oct 2019 19:27:45 No.11108320 Report

Quoted By: >>11108340

>>11096574
So I am probably dumb but I traveled out to the desert and waited 45 minutes and it was so dark I couldn't see my hand in front of my face. Why couldn't I see stars? It was just dark. Am I dumb?

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Anonymous Thu 31 Oct 2019 19:39:23 No.11108340 Report

Quoted By: >>11108584

>>11108320
Was it overcast, maybe?

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Anonymous Thu 31 Oct 2019 20:00:14 No.11108377 Report

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>>11106069
>buy telescope when I was 16 after watching Stargazing Live
>oh boy I'm going to explore the galaxy
>everything is speck
>mars looked like a very very slightly red speck
>well this is interesting
>sell the telescope

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Anonymous Thu 31 Oct 2019 22:05:54 No.11108584 Report

Quoted By: >>11108649

>>11108340
I don't think so. I actually checked to make sure there were not going to be clouds. It was just super dark and I thought maybe it would take time to acclimate but I never saw any stars. I joked with my girlfriend at the time that the sky wasn't loading.

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Anonymous Thu 31 Oct 2019 22:32:41 No.11108649 Report

Quoted By: >>11108666

>>11108584
it was probably cloudy and you didn't realize

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Anonymous Thu 31 Oct 2019 22:39:09 No.11108666 Report

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>>11108649
Thanks for the replies. I will give it another shot within the next few weeks. Very interested in seeing stars and I know I should be able to do so at some point.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Nov 2019 05:45:01 No.11109504 Report

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>>11106744
I'm pickle rick

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Anonymous Fri 01 Nov 2019 08:07:28 No.11109624 Report

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>>11096574
I got a telescope (Celestron Astromaster 130EQ) about 2 months ago, and since then I've observed the Moon, Jupiter, Saturn, and Venus (currently only as a dot, but I wanna try again when it gets closer to Earth). I'm gonna try for Mars, the ISS, and possibly Mercury and Uranus. I'm in a suburban environment so I can't really do DSOs.

Unfortunately, I found out not too long ago that that specific model of telescope uses a spherical mirror rather than a parabolic one, which limits its useful magnification to about 60x. I got it fairly cheaper than retail price so I don't exactly regret buying it, but I'm definitely gonna be looking to upgrade once I can afford it (probably when I start working in a few months). Unfortunately, all large-diameter (200 mm or so) telescopes I've seen are dobsonians, but I think I'd prefer an equatorial mount. Anyone got recommendations?

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