Anyone into Astronomy?

[BlueFly]

Just playing around with my new camera. I took this photo of Pleiades rising above my house.

Who cares, right?

[Repetitive Monkey]

I filmed a really cool meteor a few weeks ago. I posted a thread with the video but Sleazydream fucked it up with his newfound admin powers.

[abyss_al]

that's awsome

[Marcus Aurelius]

Nice. I was for quite a while and kinda lost interest in it. I used to have a 10 inch dobsonian telescope like this one:




Was fun to watch the red spot on jupiter at night and clearly see the rings of saturn, till it turned edge on of course. Very cool stuff. I ended up selling the telescope to a friend who moved to colorado.

The most interesting thing I thought about it was that everything you look at in the sky is not really how it looks. Every star in the sky could die and we wouldnt know it for years, possibly never, because you are seeing the light as it was when it left the star, looking at the stars you are really staring millions of years back in time. very cool shit.

[Big Rick]

Originally posted by mdcq

I'd hit it!!

[BlueFly]

Originally posted by mdcq
Nice. I was for quite a while and kinda lost interest in it. I used to have a 10 inch dobsonian telescope like this one:




Was fun to watch the red spot on jupiter at night and clearly see the rings of saturn, till it turned edge on of course. Very cool stuff. I ended up selling the telescope to a friend who moved to colorado.

The most interesting thing I thought about it was that everything you look at in the sky is not really how it looks. Every star in the sky could die and we wouldnt know it for years, possibly never, because you are seeing the light as it was when it left the star, looking at the stars you are really staring millions of years back in time. very cool shit.

cool scope. I know a guy with a big (16") dob... Quite a nice view of the sky with those. I have a 6" newtonian scope that is pretty nice.

[reynold]

Originally posted by BlueFly
Just playing around with my new camera. I took this photo of Pleiades rising above my house.

Who cares, right?

Nice pic. you have there.

[BlueFly]

Originally posted by reynold
Nice pic. you have there.

thanks. I need an attachment to hook my camera to the scope... That would be nice. I am just shooting with the 200mm lens now.