I totally suck...

[denbot]

Instead of donating to D.U. I bought a Mead 6.4mm super plossl eyepiece for my telescope. It just arrived, and tonight I will be giving Jupiter the eye..

Feel free to tell me what a scumbag I am..

[Gormy Cuss]

1. You're not so bad. Now that puerco-bellies guy, he was a troll.

:P

:hi:

What do you like to look at in the sky (besides Jupiter)? Are you interested mostly in planets?

[denbot]

4. From my house I can see M-57, and M-13.

I have yet to see Andromeda, or any of the "tea-pot" objects near Sagittarius, but I live in one of the most light polluted areas.

When I can get to a dark sky I try to find as many Messier objects as I can remember. I have yet to get a glimpse of Andromeda from a good location, but I have seen it's core from just behind Mt Wilson (I live in the Los Angeles area)

My scope is a 4" Celestron Refracter, and I'm occasionlly working on figuring a 10" mirror, which will become a homemade Dobsonian Reflector for deepsky objects, and my 4" for planets.

BTW That puerco-bellies guy was way "freepie" :rofl:

[Ptah]

2. A star in your future?

[denbot]

5. Hi Ptah..

I really wasn't trolling for one.. I just received my eyepiece and had a twang of guilt.

[Ptah]

9. Do you do any photography thru your telescope?

:hi:

[denbot]

11. Umm, not yet..

As soon as I got a telescope Alley has been kinda ribbing me that I going to start doing astro-photography. She has a vague idea of how expensive a hobby that would be, and is a little worried I might catch that bug. So far I've resisted so much as even looking at the Astro-mart CCD camera ads..

So far..

[Ptah]

13. This is the scope you recently built?

With the stuck lap?

[denbot]

15. No, the stuck lap is the 10" mirror

I haven't work on it for a while. I am in the figuring stage, and as it stands, the mirror is a 10" f/5.75
I am thinking of ordering fresh pitch, but has soon as I can clear a couple of projects that I have on my jewelers bench I will go back to work on my mirror with or without the fresh pitch.

Do you stargaze?

[Ptah]

17. Not very much.

One of my younger brothers was. He bought a 4 inch reflector when he
was eleven and showed me the moons of Jupiter.

I live in the city now, so the night skies are obliterated.

I am an instrument maker for the National Optical Astronomical Observatories.

Working on a new instrument that will have one billion pixels on the focal plane.

[denbot]

20. How do I send you my mirror?

:hide:

[azmouse]

3. This reminds me to get my own scope out and take a peak at Jupiter.

Watched it last year. Amazing to see the stripes on the planet and the moons like bright stars around it.

Enjoy!!

[denbot]

6. The sky cleared up last night and just before bed I got out my binoculars.

I tried to find Andromeda without success, then took a quick look at Jupiter. It was around 11:30 and to my surprise I could see Jupiter as a round planet, and 3 of her moons with my Bushnell 8/42 H2O's.
I did not know the moons were visible through small binoculars.

Do you live in a dark sky area?

[azmouse]

19. Sort of dark sky.

While I live in the Phoenix area it doesn't take long to go out of town into the desert. Nice and dark.
But I see a lot from my backyard too. Our skies are often clear here. We don't get much rain or cloud cover.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

7. My dear denbot!

You are NOT, I tell you, NOT a scumbag!

DU got its 1000 contributions just fine...

And you're teaching those kids how to see Jupiter and other planets...

That is very important too...

:hug:

[denbot]

8. Thank you Miss C-P, that was very sweet of you to say..

But then again you are always very sweet.
:loveya:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

10. Aw...

Ask my husband sometime...I can be a total shrew!

And look up at the stickies! There's one about you, sweetie!

It's pale yellow...I'll let you discover what it says!

:loveya: too...

[denbot]

12. Aww back at ya!!

Thanks sweety.

[cwydro]

14. The shuttle will be blasting off about 1:30 am

and I'm gonna be watching. But without a telescope.

Enjoy Jupiter!

[Ptah]

16. I envy your chance to see that.

Pictures?

Please

I'll be your newest best friend for life all day tomorrow.

[cwydro]

18. Well, Mr. Sunflower Man.

Here is the thing. It will be taking off from Orlando and I am in the Keys.

However, we have seen it from here even in the afternoon ( a bright flash and a column of smoke). Then it vanished into the clouds.

So my bff is telling me we will see great brightness in the sky. She is a great shuttle buff who lived near the Cape for years and years. She will be here to wake me in time, assuming the weather conditions are right. I have threatened death if I am awakened to an overcast sky.

I will have the camera, but don't hold out any big hopes, lol. Probably a nice glow to the north northeast, but I will do my bestest.

Just so long as you don't hate me if I get nothing....:yoiks:

edit: not Orlando, but you know what I mean.

[petronius]

21. If it was just regular plossl you'd be a scumbag, but super plossl - that's a different story!

:)

I realized a couple of weeks ago that I could see Jupiter's moons through my binoculars, which was very cool. I'm now thinking of buying a telescope for a roadtrip into some darkish areas next week...

[Deep13]

22. One must take the time to stop and ogle the planets.

I had a pretty good look not too long ago. It's a bit low in the sky this year.

[TreasonousBastard]

23. Nah. We've all got our priorities. I'd like higher magnification...

eyepieces for the Messier Marathon we're having this weekend. If the forecasted rain holds off, that is.

The local amateur observatory will have a bunch of scopes out, from some three inch refractors to the 25" Obsession sitting in the dome. My personal facorite is the 14" Orion Dob we roll out on the lawn, but that one's in desparate need of a good eyepiece.