Of course. We do the GBBC, the CBC, and who knows what else!
I’ve got a few good ones.
Amateur Astronomy and the Pipe Smoker
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Of course. We do the GBBC, the CBC, and who knows what else!
I’ve got a few good ones.
Thanks for sharing.. This photo is outstanding. It reminds me of some of John James Audubon's posed bird paintings.
Been doing amateur astronomy for about 40 years. Scope is a Portaball 8" f6 with a homemade solar filter watching the Oct 14th eclipse.
Well, I did try the hobby a couple of years ago, but never got much into it. Here is my original purchase:
I upgraded it a bit since then, mostly Baader filters and oculars and a new focuser, but never got too exited about it. Now it mostly resides in the basement, together with a pile of other equipment from similarly botched hobby attempts. Comes out a handful of times a year, when the mood trikes...
I upgraded it a bit since then, mostly Baader filters and oculars and a new focuser, but never got too exited about it. Now it mostly resides in the basement, together with a pile of other equipment from similarly botched hobby attempts. Comes out a handful of times a year, when the mood trikes...
I'm late to this thread, probably because I'm late to this forum. I'm a long time amateur stargazer. I've been lucky enough to live in the last house on a dead end street on the edge of a very small Iowa town. In years past could see a lot of fine structure in the Milky Way, and see the dimmer constellations such as Eridanus just my stepping out of my house. Astronomy was important to me. (Still is.) My life has been far from serene, and the night sky gave me an incredible escape... After a little while under the stars, I'd come back in ready to face the next day. My ability to sail away into infinity probably saved my life a few times.
Recent years have seen an explosion of incredibly ignorant, blinding, poorly designed, light pollution. My view of the night sky is now a washed out ghost of what it used to be, and that's taken a toll on me. I've compensated somewhat by sitting outside with a churchwarden pipe and reading OLD astronomy books, and fading into the past for awhile... That's led me to joining this group.
Aside from various binoculars, which I love, I'm pretty much a one telescope man. I bought my Celestron 8 in 1977, and now after 47 years, I'm still using it. At least on nights when I can drive a ways out of town...
These pics were shot in 1985 and 2007, but I'm still using the same scope and wearing the same coat.
Marty
Recent years have seen an explosion of incredibly ignorant, blinding, poorly designed, light pollution. My view of the night sky is now a washed out ghost of what it used to be, and that's taken a toll on me. I've compensated somewhat by sitting outside with a churchwarden pipe and reading OLD astronomy books, and fading into the past for awhile... That's led me to joining this group.
Aside from various binoculars, which I love, I'm pretty much a one telescope man. I bought my Celestron 8 in 1977, and now after 47 years, I'm still using it. At least on nights when I can drive a ways out of town...
These pics were shot in 1985 and 2007, but I'm still using the same scope and wearing the same coat.
Marty
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I've been interested as long as I can remember. I didn't learn the constellations until I was out of high school though. I grew up in Lincoln, Nebraska, which wasn't quite as blighted with light pollution back then, and I was in the habit of taking late night walks. After a while, I began to recognize my own star patterns, and I realized I could finally DO this! I pulled out the old planisphere I got in 1957, bought a copy of Menzel's Field Guide to the Stars and Planets, and had one of the best times of my life while the night sky all fell into place. Of course then, one starts to realize there are deeper things to see and pulls out his dad's elcheapo binoculars, and after awhile, one needs a telescope...
Marty
