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Post by Ginger on Dec 9, 2020 21:13:59 GMT -6
Here’s a thread about the solar storm and northern lights. If you’re up north get out and try to see
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Post by TaterWanger on Dec 9, 2020 22:57:35 GMT -6
I've been sitting under the porch light but haven't seen shit.
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Post by Other on Dec 9, 2020 23:00:10 GMT -6
No one in the lower 48 is going to see shit, the Mz threshold is way to low to meet the magnetic tip over point below the 49th parallel. Aurora ionization much? Fucking amateurs.
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Post by TaterWanger on Dec 9, 2020 23:17:06 GMT -6
Traveling through hyperspace ain't like dusting crops, boy! Without precise calculations we could fly right through a star or bounce too close to a supernova and that'd end your trip real quick, wouldn't it?
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Post by Ginger on Dec 10, 2020 8:34:24 GMT -6
I drove around until 1am looking for something. Found nothing. This morning I guess they said they were a little wrong so it’s tonight. We shall see. It’s was getting too cloudy last night.
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Post by Ginger on Dec 10, 2020 8:34:41 GMT -6
Whoops.
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Post by egadsto on Dec 10, 2020 11:00:52 GMT -6
You mean ... Space Force!
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Post by Ginger on Dec 10, 2020 14:14:46 GMT -6
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Post by Other on Dec 10, 2020 17:39:02 GMT -6
I mean...... I told you that last night.
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Post by NOTTHOR on Dec 11, 2020 7:58:00 GMT -6
You guys got your scopes ready to see this Jupiter/Saturn convergence or whatever it is? They're getting to the point where they appear to be pretty damned close (of course their orbits are millions of miles apart). My boy wants to see them both in the scope at the same time. Too bad I'm too cheap to buy the $12 camera mount or else I'd share some pics on here.
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Post by Earl Slick on Dec 11, 2020 8:22:47 GMT -6
You guys got your scopes ready to see this Jupiter/Saturn convergence or whatever it is? They're getting to the point where they appear to be pretty damned close (of course their orbits are millions of miles apart). My boy wants to see them both in the scope at the same time. Too bad I'm too cheap to buy the $12 camera mount or else I'd share some pics on here. I’m too cheap to buy the $150 geotracker for my DSLR but i can use the zoom lens and tripod to get a good look at the convergence.
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Post by Ginger on Dec 11, 2020 8:30:17 GMT -6
We have a couple different telescopes but neither with a tracker.
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Post by NOTTHOR on Dec 11, 2020 9:06:41 GMT -6
You guys got your scopes ready to see this Jupiter/Saturn convergence or whatever it is? They're getting to the point where they appear to be pretty damned close (of course their orbits are millions of miles apart). My boy wants to see them both in the scope at the same time. Too bad I'm too cheap to buy the $12 camera mount or else I'd share some pics on here. I’m too cheap to buy the $150 geotracker for my DSLR but i can use the zoom lens and tripod to get a good look at the convergence. How much zoom can you get? You able to see the moons of Jupiter and rings of Saturn with that bad boy?
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Post by NOTTHOR on Dec 11, 2020 9:13:36 GMT -6
We have a couple different telescopes but neither with a tracker. My scope will triangulate on 3 stars and then follow anything in the night sky with an app or the built in computer, but it is a pain in the balls to set it up. We have so much light pollution to the west and northwest it's damn near impossible for me to get a good star to the west to set the triangulation up. It sucks. We just check out the moon and planets with it and you don't need a tracker for those. To really see the big galaxies and gas clouds and stuff you need an equatorial mount, badass camera and a bunch of software. Several thousand more dollars and you can't even see the stuff with the naked eye because you need to run long exposure shots and marry them up. There are a lot of people who do them and post them on the interwebs so I'll just look at their work. I think people spend hours getting and editing these pictures. No thanks.
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Post by Earl Slick on Dec 11, 2020 9:44:03 GMT -6
I’m too cheap to buy the $150 geotracker for my DSLR but i can use the zoom lens and tripod to get a good look at the convergence. How much zoom can you get? You able to see the moons of Jupiter and rings of Saturn with that bad boy? 300mm. I’m hoping to at least be able to see the rings but haven’t checked it out yet. I’m still deciding where to go to get away from the light pollution. I used to go out to the old family farm to watch the Leonids but the new owners put a house up so I need a new place to go to.
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Post by A boy named Sioux on Dec 11, 2020 10:02:07 GMT -6
We have a couple different telescopes but neither with a tracker. My scope will triangulate on 3 stars and then follow anything in the night sky with an app or the built in computer, but it is a pain in the balls to set it up. We have so much light pollution to the west and northwest it's damn near impossible for me to get a good star to the west to set the triangulation up. It sucks. We just check out the moon and planets with it and you don't need a tracker for those. To really see the big galaxies and gas clouds and stuff you need an equatorial mount, badass camera and a bunch of software. Several thousand more dollars and you can't even see the stuff with the naked eye because you need to run long exposure shots and marry them up. There are a lot of people who do them and post them on the interwebs so I'll just look at their work. I think people spend hours getting and editing these pictures. No thanks. Which scope have you got pard? I have an 8" celestron. Here is a pic from just minutes before the last solar eclipse. Moments after this, the clouds rolled in and it poured rain. I missed the entire eclipse. Attachments:
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Post by NOTTHOR on Dec 11, 2020 10:04:39 GMT -6
How much zoom can you get? You able to see the moons of Jupiter and rings of Saturn with that bad boy? 300mm. I’m hoping to at least be able to see the rings but haven’t checked it out yet. I’m still deciding where to go to get away from the light pollution. I used to go out to the old family farm to watch the Leonids but the new owners put a house up so I need a new place to go to. Do you live in Neck Moines? The light pollution shouldn't impact viewing Jupiter or Saturn too much there. I suspect that you might get a faint hint of rings with that lens, but I'm curious. You might as well just buy a high end scope right now.
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Post by NOTTHOR on Dec 11, 2020 10:14:02 GMT -6
My scope will triangulate on 3 stars and then follow anything in the night sky with an app or the built in computer, but it is a pain in the balls to set it up. We have so much light pollution to the west and northwest it's damn near impossible for me to get a good star to the west to set the triangulation up. It sucks. We just check out the moon and planets with it and you don't need a tracker for those. To really see the big galaxies and gas clouds and stuff you need an equatorial mount, badass camera and a bunch of software. Several thousand more dollars and you can't even see the stuff with the naked eye because you need to run long exposure shots and marry them up. There are a lot of people who do them and post them on the interwebs so I'll just look at their work. I think people spend hours getting and editing these pictures. No thanks. Which scope have you got pard? I have an 8" celestron. Here is a oic from just minutes befor the last solar eclipse. Moments after this, the clouds rolled in and it poured rain. I missed the entire eclipse. I prolly have the same as you. Celestron Nexstar 8SE. I was trashed the day it was delivered and me and my neighbor were trying to use it before I had the laser dialed in. Fucking disaster. I thought it was broken.
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Post by A boy named Sioux on Dec 11, 2020 10:26:01 GMT -6
I actually have an older Celeston 8I. It is supposed to have a little better optics than the current product. I did have to update to the newer SE hand controller as the old one would not work with the GPS module after a recent GPS date roll over.
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Post by TaterWanger on Dec 11, 2020 11:51:17 GMT -6
Who wants to talk about books on submarines next?
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Post by thunderhawk on Dec 11, 2020 11:59:47 GMT -6
Let me summarize space real succinctly:
Everything of which we're aware beyond this planet is designed to kill you, and brutally so.
That's why I never wanted to be a fucking astronaut.
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Post by thunderhawk on Dec 11, 2020 12:02:46 GMT -6
300mm. I’m hoping to at least be able to see the rings but haven’t checked it out yet. I’m still deciding where to go to get away from the light pollution. I used to go out to the old family farm to watch the Leonids but the new owners put a house up so I need a new place to go to. Do you live in Neck Moines? The light pollution shouldn't impact viewing Jupiter or Saturn too much there. I suspect that you might get a faint hint of rings with that lens, but I'm curious. You might as well just buy a high end scope right now. I live just west of downtown and the planets are exceedingly bright and defined on clear nights. As far as metro areas go, The Neck is pretty solid for the low levels of light pollution. Of course in my case it's prolly also a function of being surrounded by a lot of forest.
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Post by NOTTHOR on Dec 11, 2020 12:04:49 GMT -6
Who wants to talk about books on submarines next? Good idea. My wife is currently translating a very obscure 3 volume treatise on the verbal history of the Imperial Japanese Navy I-400 class submarines into English. Her dad received it from the wife of a deceased friend who knew that I had a passing interest in WWII naval history. My wife plans to gift it to the history department at either Clemson or the U of Iowa when she has it completed.
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Post by A boy named Sioux on Dec 11, 2020 12:20:00 GMT -6
Who wants to talk about books on submarines next? So jelly of our advanced optics and non-prole hobbies.
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Post by NOTTHOR on Dec 11, 2020 12:20:26 GMT -6
Do you live in Neck Moines? The light pollution shouldn't impact viewing Jupiter or Saturn too much there. I suspect that you might get a faint hint of rings with that lens, but I'm curious. You might as well just buy a high end scope right now. I live just west of downtown and the planets are exceedingly bright and defined on clear nights. As far as metro areas go, The Neck is pretty solid for the low levels of light pollution. Of course in my case it's prolly also a function of being surrounded by a lot of forest. One nice thing down here is that none of the streets outside of the most major ones downtown have streetlights other than at major intersections. That cuts the light pollution a lot. But I live south of town and because the whole area is foothills for the Piedmonts, I'm "down the slope" so the lights come from above. I'm also crushed because I'm a half mile from the interstate and a mile from a major cloverleag, which has a lot of lights, and a main shopping area, plus a few distribution centers that are lit up like Christmas trees. The nice thing about these more country type places is you guys can go to farms and see everything and if I go north of Asheville, it is pitch black. Even better than Iowa, but there are a lot of trees up there. When I was in high school we used to occasionally drink out at a buddy's family farm just north of 65 past Bondurant and you could see everything. I'll bet by now that place is heavily light polluted. There's a place called Big Bald on the Tennessee/NC border. My buddy's vacation house HOA has an access key to go up there and I think next summer with the kids a little bit older we are going to do an astronomy night up there. It's the second highest formation on the App trail and the forest service cleared all the trees on the top so you can see for miles in every direction. The only problem with that is it is pitch fucking black and there are bears and shit all over the place up there. I'm pretty timid about being up there in pure darkness.
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