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Anonymous Wed 25 Mar 2020 05:11:13 No.1718398 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>1718404 >>1718439 >>1718545

>parents get me a telescope for early b-day gift
>money is tight so I'm surprised and super appreciative
>it rains for a week and a half straight
>first night it's clear
>excited to see the moon, maybe even the other planets
>nothing is out
>no moon
>no planets
>it's not an expensive telescope so I don't think I can see other stars through it
Thanks god real funny

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 25 Mar 2020 05:30:48 No.1718400 Report

Quoted By: >>1718417

The fuck do you live where there is nothing to observe, Rapture?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 25 Mar 2020 05:37:46 No.1718404 Report

Quoted By: >>1718420

>>1718398
Venus is cool when it's out. It really looks like a planet. There's that program you can put on a phone, Starwalk or something that's handy for finding where things are.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 25 Mar 2020 06:28:01 No.1718417 Report

Quoted By: >>1718452

>>1718400
Middle-of-nowhere Texas

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 25 Mar 2020 06:31:36 No.1718420 Report

Quoted By: >>1718597

>>1718404
I downloaded star walk just for this and only to find out the sky is barren tonight

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 25 Mar 2020 08:13:12 No.1718437 Report

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I have a not real expensive telescope and have used it to see distant stars don't give up when you finally see the moon it looks great you can see all the impact craters

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 25 Mar 2020 08:20:37 No.1718439 Report

Quoted By: >>1718925

>>1718398
You can still use it anon, have a look at the stellarium app and use your scope to learn the constellations

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 25 Mar 2020 10:04:57 No.1718452 Report

Quoted By: >>1718491

>>1718417
How much light pollution is near you? Texas has some of the best areas for astronomy in the US (e.g. near mcdonald observatory), but you might have to travel a bit.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 25 Mar 2020 14:23:02 No.1718491 Report

Quoted By: >>1718930

>>1718452
There's not much light pollution, less than where I was a couple months ago. Honestly it's a great town to observe stuff in, there was just nothing really to look at last night

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 25 Mar 2020 16:13:37 No.1718545 Report

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>>1718398
>high time preference
niggers like you should stick to things like robbing convenience stores and killing people

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 25 Mar 2020 17:53:02 No.1718597 Report

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>>1718420
Venus is out almost every night after sunset right now. It's literally one of the brightest objects in the night sky. Sirius, Procyon, Castor, Pollux, Rigel etc are all naked eye stars that can be seen with any telescope as well. The Orion Nebula and Andromeda galaxy are capable of being viewed with binoculars, depends on how much light pollution you have. I'm in bortle scale 3 so this stuff is all easily visible to the naked eye. Memorize the locations of certain stars and you can find these objects without the aid of computers.

>Moon at 40x during daytime, 70mm refractor, 400mm focal length,10mm eye piece, no filters (ie. very shitty telescope)

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 26 Mar 2020 05:15:54 No.1718925 Report

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>>1718439
Since I missed the moon being out I made a point to find the north star and I was actually able to. It was a green/red dot that looked blue unfocused but was really cool nonetheless since I never thought about focusing on single stars. Also saw a shooting star shortly before setting up

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 26 Mar 2020 05:23:15 No.1718930 Report

Quoted By: >>1718940

>>1718491
what bortle scale does this map show you have?
https://www.lightpollutionmap.info/

>there was just nothing really to look at last night
jupiter should still be coming up around sunset, you can see the moons around it

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 26 Mar 2020 05:45:09 No.1718940 Report

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>>1718930
At least a 5, I've never seen the milky way much less seen it here. Also I'm making a note to look at the moon and anything else in the evening tomorrow but not after sunset. Seeing the different moons around Jupiter would be cool.

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