The Stargazing Thread!

[Guest]

The super moon!

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Edited December 1, 2017 by Guest

[cubinator]

@dundun93

[munlander1]

11 hours ago, dundun93 said:

The super moon!

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What is that thing to the left?

[Piatzin]

3 hours ago, munlander1 said:

What is that thing to the left?

A transdimensional space goat

[munlander1]

4 hours ago, Earthlinger said:

A transdimensional space goat

Skeptical 

[Guest]

8 hours ago, munlander1 said:

What is that thing to the left?

that's just how the camera is. 

[munlander1]

2 hours ago, dundun93 said:

that's just how the camera is. 

So like internal reflection?

 

[Guest]

3 minutes ago, munlander1 said:

So like internal reflection?

 

Yeah.

8 hours ago, Earthlinger said:

A transdimensional space goat

SPOILER!

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[Guest]

No supermoon, it is raining

 

 

[munlander1]

I have super moon pics! The computer they are in isn't detecting a boot drive too!!!

[Guest]

All was not lost! I woke up at 6:45, and the skies were clear, and I saw it! No pictures though.

[Kerbinchaser]

My father knows someone who owns a mini observatory and takes these photos:

 

Awesome, right?? I am pleased to know him.  

 

If you want to see more, here is his Youtube channel: 

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKy1byNPZrXLwd82TB6RPqQ/videos

Edited December 4, 2017 by Lo Var Lachland

[Guest]

6 minutes ago, Lo Var Lachland said:

My father knows someone who owns a mini observatory and takes these photos:

 

Awesome, right?? I am pleased to know him.  

 

If you want to see more, here is his Youtube channel: 

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKy1byNPZrXLwd82TB6RPqQ/videos

Wow! I would like, if only...

[Kerbinchaser]

32 minutes ago, dundun92 said:

Wow! I would like, if only...

Lol. What system is that? Is that a phone? 

[Guest]

2 minutes ago, Lo Var Lachland said:

Lol. What system is that? Is that a phone? 

Yeah. Android 4.0.x.

[Kerbinchaser]

2 hours ago, dundun92 said:

Yeah. Android 4.0.x.

NUUUUUUU! You anti-apple socialists!! 

[Guest]

1 hour ago, Lo Var Lachland said:

NUUUUUUU! You anti-apple socialists!! 

I definitely prefer android!

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest]

I just enjoyed the Geminid meteor shower last night. For the last 15-30mins from ~12:00 to 12:30, I saw, on average, 1 meteor per minute, sometimes 2'

[cubinator]

The clouds are moving quickly and have some holes in them...crossing my fingers that it becomes decent in the next two hours for hunting for Phaethon and spotting a few Geminids. I'm mostly confident I could see it if it was clear between Cassiopeia and Auriga.

Edit: Gaps between clouds are increasing, and I had a clear line of sight to Perseus for a minute or so...I think there's a pretty good chance they'll become sparse enough for a proper observation of the asteroid's movement soon.

Edit 2: IT'S CLEAR! Better get the hell to it; it's asteroid time!

Edited December 14, 2017 by cubinator

[cubinator]

I think I'll be able to find it, but I just came in to warm up and my fingers really hurt for a few minutes. I guess an hour, in 21°F, is as long as I should go. I'll go back out soon for more squinting.

I saw two beautiful bright meteors sailing through the sky though!

Edited December 14, 2017 by cubinator

[cubinator]

I saw it!

That was really hard. My eyes and knees are tired. It was close to the zenith so I had to kneel for the better part of two hours to look in the vicinity, and I basically didn't even have a chance of seeing it if I looked at anything else for about five or ten minutes. I finally spotted an unmistakable object in the right place and stared "at" it (slightly away to avoid the blind spot) for a couple of minutes and then came in to check on Stellarium whether I looked at the correct object. Turns out I did, so I've now seen an asteroid the size of a mountain from 12.9 Gm away!

[Guest]

[Guest]

AutoStakkert stack

[munlander1]

On 12/4/2017 at 1:07 PM, Lo Var Lachland said:

Snip

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How'd you avoid overexposing the center?

I was shooting 30 seconds st 100 ISO and wasn't getting that amount of detail.

[Kerbinchaser]

4 hours ago, munlander1 said:

How'd you avoid overexposing the center?

I was shooting 30 seconds st 100 ISO and wasn't getting that amount of detail.

Not me, a friend. He has a mini observatory that's the size of a VW Bug in his front yard. Also a major name in the UFO business.