The Astronomy Thread
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I have a red filter flashlight to use but mostly no. I set the Seestar up before dark because it's easier to set up in the daylight. Then I turn it off and wait for dark. I have these little gloves? that only go on 2 fingers that have a small battery in them and the ends are LED flashlights. I use them to set up everything when it's dark. With the Seestar , after you set the phone up with what you want to shoot, there isn't much to babysit so I usually go inside and come out every 45min-hour to reset the image (to avoid tracking errors so bad). ZWO did release a wedge but that looked like too much work. If I wanted to do all that I would have kept the big ass 12" Meade scope I had.
Amazon.com : ZWO Seestar Tripod Head TH10 EQ Wedge for Seestar Smart Telescope, Fluid Tripod Head for Equatorial Mode, 360° Pan & ±90° Tilt, Compatible with DSLR, Mirrorless & Video Cameras : Electronics
Amazon.com : ZWO Seestar Tripod Head TH10 EQ Wedge for Seestar Smart Telescope, Fluid Tripod Head for Equatorial Mode, 360° Pan & ±90° Tilt, Compatible with DSLR, Mirrorless & Video Cameras : Electronics
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BrutulTM
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Did anyone see Halley's comet in 1986? I was 9 years old and I remember my dad going out early in the morning to try to see it through his rifle scope but I don't think he ever did. You couldn't get as much good advice about when and where to look as you can now. I'll be 84 next time it comes around if I make it that long. I am lucky enough to live in a great place to look at stars.
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Yep my mom took my brother and me out to the middle of a field and we looked at it through binos. In a way she really got me interested in astronomy. She'd let us stay up late even on a school night to look at meteor showers (as long as we got up on time to go to school). That stuff really sticks with you.
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Sanrith Descartes
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BrutulTM
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My only thought when I hear something about quantum physics is that they could tell me absolutely anything because I have no way of detecting bullshit when everything about quantum physics sounds like bullshit.
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Yep, it all sounds like magic. Which usually means we don't know enough (yet).
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According to Wiki, the 1986 pass was in one of the worst possible positions for viewing (opposite side of the sun) and only got to an apparent magnitude of 2.1. Whereas, if any of us make it to the 2061 viewing, it will be much closer, on the same side of the sun as the earth will be on, getting to a projected apparent magnitude of -0.3 (roughly as bright as Vega, Canopus, Alpha Centauri, Arcturus).
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I've been shitting on pretty much everything quantum since the start of this forum. It's only useful as a form of mathematical estimation of reality. The people who try to say it actually represents reality are one and all retarded.
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Hekotat
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The only one i got to see was the Hale Bopp comet. I was a freshman in high school and the sky was still very dark where I lived, id walk to my friends to get a ride to school and wed just stare at it. Sadly there is too much light pollution today compared to back then.
Used to be able to just sit outside and watch shooting stars. I miss seeing the stars.
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Mahes
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Tholan
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entanglement feels like something we discovered way too early and is still very obscure (at least to me). But saying something's future influence the past is on another level.
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Sanrith Descartes
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Tholan
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Do you mean the interpretation of his cat experiment ? I'm quite a newbie
Sanrith Descartes
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Yes. You have to live your future before you know what your past looks like. it was a bad joke.
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Big Phoenix
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Any picture you take from an eye piece is going to look meh at best even with the most expensive camera.
The way people get good pictures is by very long exposures, stacking photos and then Photoshop.
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That’s true for most objects in the sky, but for the really bright ones like the closer planets not so much. It comes down to precise focus being more important. I’ve never messed with his type of telescope, but it’s design being targeted to cleaning up fainter images might be less than ideal for planetary imaging.